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Twilight Galaxies (excerpt): stop action / motion animation, mixed materials, on a single canvas, 7 min.: 51 sec.

Created at LMCC Work Space Residency Program

Acquisition: Utah Museum of Fine Arts

 

This animation short was inspired by immigrant holiday ceremonies.

For the background I painted images of real and imagined galaxies. In the foreground I animated common objects that are found from these gatherings.

These objects echo the transitory state of these ceremonies, becoming the new icon that defy a specific cultural association. As banal as they appear or void of originality, these objects can be a transmitter for a possible utopia through interaction, exchange and unstill-ness. 

For sound I used galactical waves translated to sound waves and audio samples from the ceremonies.

"Single Channel: Video Art Festival", NURTUREart Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

Image courtsey of NURTUREart

 

"The UMW Media Wall/ November", University of Mary Washington, VA

Image courtsey of Jason Robinson

 

Exhibitions/ Screenings

2019: 'Where is this place?", Curated by Megan Mace, A.C Embassy Art Museum, Beijing

Special project installation presented by Pioneer Works, 1-54 Art Fair, New York, NY

"YES", Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2018: "Screen Projects", University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

"The UMW Media Wall/ November", University of Mary Washington, VA

"Art, Artists & You", Children's Museum of Manhattan, New York, NY

"Single Channel: Video Art Festival", NURTUREart, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

2017: Prizm Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL

"Work in Progress", Childrens Museum of Art, NY

Lumen 8 Exhibition, Staten Island, NY

 

     

 

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