E-Motionø Support Group is a collection of animations to help you feel better, specially curated as an antidote to these unprecedentedly strange days. This virtual compilation celebrates the dynamic nature of video art and its unique ability to help people feel comforted, human, touched, and alive until we can go back to IRL again; movement as medicine on our digital screens. The exhibition features the distinctive voices of thirty-nine artists, their videos will be revealed in daily doses from May 11 through June 9, then live as a collection on www.artofthis.world until July 1st.
ARTISTS: Abbey Golden, Ali Miller, Amanda Nedham, Amber Tutwiler, Andy Harman, Benjamin Cabral, Bobby Anspach, Brendan Sullivan, WANG Chen, Claudia Bitran, Clayton Skidmore, Dane Manary, David B. Smith, Eliot Greenwald, Eric Yahnker, Federico Solmi, Gracelee Lawrence, HyeGyeong Choi, JD Raenbeau, Jenn Berger, Jeremy Olson, Kristina Schmidt, Kyle Hittmeier, Laura O'Connor, Maja Djordjevic, Margot Bird, Marianna Peragallo, Matt Bollinger, Melanie Delach, Mellissa Brown, Michael Hambouz, Rebecca Morgan, Robin F. Williams, Rollin Leonard, Rose Nestler, Shayna Strype, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Xiangning Em Wang
Kristina Schmidt
Times Square, 2020, (1:00)
Kristina Schmidt’s work is based on small watercolor drawings from her sketchbook, brought alive with digital animation. Instead of going dead on the screen, the moving sequence delivers the fine lines and colors in a vibrant and delightful way. For Kristina, animating her sketches is a way of getting in touch and in motion in limiting conditions. Kristina Schmidt is a current MFA candidate at Hunter College. Due to Covid-19, her graduation show was postponed and she had to leave her studio behind in the crucial phase.
Rebecca Morgan
Breathing and Blinking, 2015, (0:19)
Rebecca Morgan’s painting, drawings, and ceramics peel apart the simultaneous reverence and complicated repulsions for rural people utilizing folk tradition and a brilliantly sly sense of humor. Stylistically, her paintings embrace the hyper-detailed naturalism of Dutch masters alongside underground cartoonists. Her work speaks directly to our times revealing the anxieties and everyday subjectivities women must confront. This animation may be from 2014, but it couldn’t express more perfectly how I often feel in these quarantined times.
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