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source: arteallimite

“Why won’t you do any dishes? I always clean up the kitchen. Fine” (“¿Porqué no lavas algún plato? Siempre limpio yo la cocina. Bien”), canta una voz mustiamente mientras una explosión de color muestra y vuelve a esconder las flores que están a los pies de Hobo Clown (Payaso Vagabundo), un personaje solitario y triste. Tras los últimos segundos de una animación en stop-motion aparecen los créditos: informan que la autora se llama Allison Schulnik (Estados Unidos, 1978), y que la música la tomó prestada de la banda norteamericana Grizzly Bear. Es el último fragmento de una animación de 5 minutos y 10 segundos en el que aparecen combinadas en armonía los intereses de la artista, la animación experimental, la pintura y la danza.
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source: markmooregallery

Allison Schulnik choreographs her subjects in compositions that embody a spirit of the macabre, a Shakespearian comedy/tragedy of love, death and farce. The subjects often stare back at the audience and study them as they are in turn studied, aware of their ancestors from the Grand Theme works of the past, the genre paintings that inform them. Although a haunting sense of foreboding, discomfort and unease is palpable, a sense of understanding, compassion and hopefulness for her cast of characters is still evident in the heavy impasto paintings. Her sculptural use of oil paint references her clay-animation background, as a motion-like sensibility affords her paintings unparalleled depth and energy.

Born in 1978 (San Diego, CA), Schulnik earned her BFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (CA). She has had solo exhibitions at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OK), Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (KS), Rokeby Gallery (London), Unosunove Arte Contemporanea (Rome), Division Gallery (Montreal), and ZieherSmith Gallery (NY), in addition to her inclusion in film festivals around the world. Her work has also been shown at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture (Moscow), Hammer Museum (CA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), Santa Barbara Museum of Art (CA), Contemporary Arts Museum (LA), and Hangar-7 (Salzburg), among many others. Allison Schulnik is in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (KS), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), Santa Barbara Art Museum (CA), Museé de Beaux Arts (Montreal), Farnsworth Art Museum (ME), Laguna Art Museum (CA), Monteal Contemporary Art Museum (Canada), and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada). The artist lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
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source: dragonframe

Artist and Filmmaker Allison Schulnik created this mesmerizing stop motion film for the song “Ready, Able” by Grizzly Bear. Allison’s painting and sculpture styles translate amazingly into the clay characters and dimensional abstractions that inhabit the clip.