‘Oceanic Dancer’ on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyuFS8VkJUc
Erin Dunn is a filmmaker born and raised on the Jersey Shore, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Her process incorporates painting, mixed-media collage, sound, and performance, coalescing in experimental stop-motion animations and highly detailed installations.
Dunn holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Rutgers University, where she received a Teaching Assistant and Graduate Assistant fellowship. She has been awarded residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Residency Unlimited in New York, and Stitching Kaus Australis in the Netherlands. (Clonazepam) Dunn had exhibited at venues including MoMA PS1, the New Museum, and The Kitchen in New York; MOCA in Los Angeles; and W139 in the Netherlands. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Bullett Media, DIS Magazine, Animal New York, LA Weekly, V Magazine, and Fader, among others.
Erin Dunn’s multi-faceted practice incorporates a variety of media that she renders in a grotesque fairy tale aesthetic. She crafted each element of Oceanic Dancer by hand, from the layered, psychedelic backdrops to the articulated puppet armatures and elaborate costumes. A diorama, filled with sculptures and paintings featured in Oceanic Dancer, offers a window into her meticulous, labor-intensive process. The film is the conclusion of nearly two years of work.
A series of loose, energetic portraits on canvas occupy the project space. Saturated in airbrushed neon watercolors, the feminine, anthropomorphic characters in these portraits share the same mythical provenance as those in Oceanic Dancer. However, here they are removed from the hot-glue glitter world of stop-motion, and captured mid-smile—or mid-sneer—like characters from a storybook.
http://cueartfoundation.org/erin-dunn/
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Rujeko Hockley
Corina Larkin
Beatrice Wolert-Weese
Shona Masarin-Hurst
Chase Martin
Rachel Heindenry
Grady Owens (music)
Carl Berg
Ichiro Irie
Keith DeMary
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