Fall Classic is about a generation of athletes that fell from grace and a generation of children who grew up worshipping those athletes.

The show opened October 21, 2005 at the Melody Weir Gallery in Chelsea, and featured work by Chris Isenberg, Mickey Duzyj and Courtney King (aka Black Dragon). Fall Classic got an amazing response from the public and has been been written about in The Fader, Lodown, Mass Appeal, Women's Wear Daily, and Coolhunting.com.

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Chris Isenberg was born and bred in Greenwich Village in New York City. As a child, he was obsessed with sports and fixated on the New York Yankees. In art and shop class at The Little Red School House, he built a miniature Yankee Stadium out of cardboard and fashioned a Bucky Dent hand puppet. From ages five through seven, he refused to wear anything except a regulation Yankee uniform, complete with stirrups, plastic batting helmet, and frequently, burnt cork under the eyes. He was a batboy for the New York Yankees for one day during Spring Training in 1982 at Fort Lauderdale, FL- which stands as probably the greatest day of his life.

After Isenberg graduated with a master's degree in English Literature from Oxford University, he moved back to New York and began writing about sports and urban culture for various publications including Details, The New York Times, The Fader, Sports Illustrated, and the Village Voice. In 2004, he founded No Mas. He now splits his professional time between writing, art-directing and the rag trade. He resides in the Italian section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he plays bar league softball for the Black Betty.

After graduating from the School of Visual Arts (BFA Illustration) in 2004, Mickey has been a regular contributor to The Nation magazine and has done comics and illustration work for Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, the New York Acadamey of Science, and Meathaus. He is the winner of the 2001 Museum of Modern Art Award, and the 2005 Geri Bauer Foundation Award, given to the best illustration at the annual Society of Illustrators Scholarship Competition. His heroes include Croation headcase Goran Ivanisevic, poker disaster Stu Unger, and an unhealthy number of other fallen classics. This is his first show in New York.

Courtney King aka Black Dragon was born in St. James Parrish, Montego, Bay Jamaica, but has lived in New York for the last seven years. He has been drawing since he was six, when his favorite athletes were Pele and Muhammad Ali. He studied drawing at Montego Bay Community College, and spent years traveling the world as a bartender on cruise ships. These days, when weather permits, he can usually be found painting and selling his work in Union Square Park. In addition to portraits, he also does signs, billboards, and murals. His dream is to open The Black Dragon Science and Art Studio. His motto: Trust God and Live.

"Art in itself is a form of dedication of mind and self-discipline and it make you appreciate things of life and things of mother nature." ---Black Dragon