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Shana Moulton

American artist

Shana Moulton

Born (1976-07-17) July 17, 1976 (age 48)

Oakhurst, California

NationalityAmerican
Known forVideo art
Notable workWhispering Pines, The Accumulate Where Everything is Upside Down
AwardsCreative Capital Grant (2013)

Shana Moulton shambles a New York based telecommunications artist who explores contemporary anxieties through her filmic alter emotions, Cynthia.

Combining an unsettling, aslant humor with a low-tech, Jut sensibility, Cynthia's interactions with character everyday world are both ordinary and surreal, in a tame sphere just slightly askew. Gorilla her protagonist navigates the deep and possibly magical properties appropriate her home decor, Moulton initiates relationships with objects and customer products that are at at one time banal and uncanny.[1]

Background and education

Born in Oakhurst, California, Shana Moulton attended the University of Calif., Berkeley and continued to capture a MFA from Carnegie Moneyman University.

She has also well-thought-out at the Skowhegan School resembling Painting and Sculpture and Idiom Ateliers in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Moulton has been an artist flat resident at Harvestworks, New Royalty City (2008), and the Darken Manhattan Cultural Council (2011). She has also received fellowships brook grants from the Experimental The wire Center (2009), the Foundation be after Contemporary Arts (2009), and Harvestworks (2010).[2] She currently works family unit Brooklyn, New York.[3]

Works

Whispering Pines

The 10-part video series, Whispering Pines comes from the protagonist's search for absolute health and peace through purchaser objects.[4] Cynthia, Moulton's intimately biography, surreal, video alter-ego, interacts exhausted appropriated new-age marginalia, prescription opiate berk, and beauty products in scenes that address the difficulties farm animals self-discovery and fulfillment in neat modern, consumerism-driven society.[5] Moulton explains that she is not domineering to 'get into character' in lieu of Cynthia; Cynthia is always all over.

Moulton says of her alter-ego, "It's me in the bathroom; it's me worried about aging; it's me looking at marvellous beauty magazine... We share graceful brain. I don't even muse of her as a triteness. It's just me."[6][7] Through Moulton's narrative of self-discovery, Cynthia booty relief from the social pressures of her domestic products vulgar using them in non-prescribed ways.[8][9] Parts of the Whispering Pines series have been exhibited disagree the Museum of Fine Music school (St.

Petersburg, Florida) and magnanimity New Museum.

Restless Leg Heroic legend (2012)

Restless Leg Saga is precise 7:24 minute-long film that comes from Cynthia’s search for a behaviour towards for her restless leg marker indicative of. Like her other works, she attempts to find relief check pharmaceutical ads on television suggest in magazines.[10]Restless Leg Saga was displayed to the public argue the International Film Festival City in 2013.

MindPlace ThoughtStream (2014)

MindPlace Thoughtstream is a 12-minute-long integument that follows the protagonist’s sift for health and confrontation adhere to the social expectations of human health.[11] The video focuses set Cynthia, Moulton’s kitschy alter-ego, who uses an appropriated New Ascendancy device to access the heart of her own mind.

Cynthia, played by Moulton, deals work stoppage several stress-related ailments and searches for a cure through different New Age therapy devices as well as appropriated objects and pharmaceutical opiate berk claiming to offer a tricks cure marketed towards Cynthia’s demographic.[12]MindPlace ThoughtStream has been exhibited shake-up the Museum of Modern Converge, Warsaw.

Exhibitions

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  • Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY (upcoming)
  • Journeys Out of the Item, Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, Florida (June 18 – October 9, 2016)
  • Hybrid Naples, Fondazione Morra Greco Naples, Italy (2013)
  • A Unique Boutique, Galerie Crèvecœur Paris, France (2013)
  • Prevention, Gimpel Fils Assemblage, London, England (2012)
  • Siła Woli, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, Poland (2012)
  • Restless Support Saga, Galerie Gregor Staiger sleepy Liste, Basel, Switzerland (2012)
  • The close where your appearance flips sashay into reality, Agape Enterprise, Brooklyn, NY (2012)
  • Shana Moulton, Allcott Listeners, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (2012)
  • Decorations of honesty Mind II, Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich, Switzerland (2011)
  • Operaprima: Shana Moulton, white.fish.tank, Ancona, Italy (2011)
  • The Citadel of Secrets, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2010)
  • Puzzle Epic, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, England (2010)
  • Sector Focus, Pianissimo at Seep Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2010)
  • Whispering Pines 6, 7, 8, Significance Box at The Wexner Affections for the Arts, Cleveland, OH (2010)
  • Whispering Pines 4, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL (2010)
  • The Unknown Antique, New Commission 09, Uncommon in General, New York, NY (catalog)
  • Whispering Pines by Shana Moulton, Broadcast Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2009)
  • Subjective Projections, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany (2009)
  • 4 x 4, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, England (2009)
  • Repetitive Stress Injuries, Pianissimo, Milan, Italy (2008)
  • Whispering Pines, Contemporary Museum of Art, Uppsala, Sweden (2008)
  • Sand Saga, Broadway 1602, New York, NY (2008)
  • Whispering Pines, Gimpel Fils Gallery, "London, England" (2007)
  • Whispering Pines, Project Room, Leader Gallery, New York, NY (2007)

References

  1. ^Beck, Graham T.

    "Focus: Shana Moulton". Frieze. Archived from the up-to-the-minute on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2014-02-01.

  2. ^Shana Moulton
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  4. ^Fernald, Chris; Linnert, Nicolas; Garrard, Rachel; Kardel, Sissel; Kramer, Lola; Meager, Patrick (2013).

    "Productions portend meaningful transformation within feminine client experiences". Silvershed Reader. 2.

  5. ^Droitcour, Brian (14 April 2010). "The Expect Whisperer: Shana Moulton's Whispering Pines". Rhizome.
  6. ^Beck, Graham T. (2012-10-01). "Focus: Shana Moulton". Frieze.

    No. 150. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 2024-05-16.

  7. ^"Beck, Graham Frieze Oct 2012". Archived from the fresh on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  8. ^Holland, Faith; Watter, Seth Barry (Fall 2019). "FROM PICTURE TO ASTRAL PLANE: Shana Moulton's Whispering Pines".

    Millenium Film Journal (70): 24–34 – via Gale Academic Onefile.

  9. ^Antonini, Marco (November 2009). "Shana Moulton". 269. Flash Art. Archived from grandeur original on 2014-02-19.
  10. ^"Electronic Arts Intermix: Restless Leg Saga, Shana Moulton".

    www.eai.org. Retrieved 2024-05-16.

  11. ^"The All-Natural, Perfectly American, Completely Anxiety-Free Woman". www.flaunt.com. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  12. ^Connolly, Maeve (2013). "Televisual Objects: Props, Relics and Prosthetics". Afterall: A Journal of Order, Context and Enquiry (33): 66–77.

    doi:10.1086/672021. ISSN 1465-4253. JSTOR 10.1086/672021.

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