mound

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“Mound” to najnowszy, poklatkowy film Allison Schulnik. Animację bez wątpienia można nazwać spektakularnym dziełem; na jej potrzeby artystka wykonała ponad setkę ręcznie szytych i rzeźbionych postaci, proces ich “ożywiania zajął prawie 8 miesięcy, a samo zmienianie fazy ruchu lalek na jedną klatkę filmu trwało niekiedy około dwóch godzin(!). Czyste piękno. Najlepiej oglądać tylko w hd.
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LA based artist, Schulnik is beyond talented
She is an extremely unique creative doing everything from claymation to painting and film.
She hit my radar back in 2009 when she directed the
Grizzly Bear music video “Ready, Able”
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Back in 2009, Allison Schulnik‘s music video for Grizzly Bear’s “Ready, Able,” garnered hundreds of thousands of views in a handful of days (at least half of which probably came from yours truly). This was her second project, a year after her claymation short, Hobo Clown (set to Grizzley Bear’s “Granny Diner”), was widely received in galleries worldwide. Now, a handful of days after the release of her newest work, MOUND, and the opening of an exquisite solo show at ZieherSmith gallery in New York (and I really don’t say that lightly), we sat down and picked her brain to find out about her inspiration, process and what makes her work feel so, truly, sacred.
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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.