allison schulnik
her hobo clowns are emotionally primitive creatures and explore their surrounding relationships through poking and finger pointing. they are ceaseless in their discovery, like in Hobo with Bird, which captures a dynamic moment of becoming, understanding, and knowing. schulnik gives them a lot of psychological depth and awkward moments of self-realization (like in Performance #2, which also has one of my favorite color palettes), some even transcending the psychology of their own characters and becoming intimate reflections of the viewer's psyche.
even though her paintings are the most seducing, don't miss her sculptures, films and works on paper like Yellow Man. more modest, same emotional delight
grizzly bear commissioned schulnik to make a claymation vid for "ready, able". one viewer wrote, "I found this while trying to find grizzly bear attacks." in this way schulnik makes her videos multifunctional.
Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers (van Gogh) - Sunflowers #9
Old Man in Sorrow: On the Threshold of Eternity (van Gogh) - Hobo Clown #2
Virgin and Child in a Flower Garland with Angels (Rubens - Virgin and Child // Jan Brueghel - flowers) - Sunflower Wreath
Niagara (Frederich Edwin Church) - Niagara Falls #5
my beautiful dark twisted fantasy (George Condo) - Girl with Animal
[via Mark Moore Gallery]
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