MATRIX 168: Allison Schulnik / installation view
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (CT)
Eager, 2013-2014 / clay-animated stop-motion video / 8:25 minutes / still image
Collection of Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (CT)
Allison Schulnik / Rainy Day Duck Flowers #1, 2015 / oil on canvas stretched over board / 12 x 12 inches
"ex•pose: Allison Schulnik" / installation view / solo exhibition
Laguna Art Museum, 2013
Ariel #2, 2012 / oil on linen / 90 x 60 inches
Collection of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (KS)
Performance #2, 2010 / oil on linen / 102 x 198 inches
Collection of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (KS)
Performance #2, 2010
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Mound, 2011 / Video / 4 minutes 24 seconds / edition of 5 + 2 AP
Collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA)
Collection of Albright-Knox Art Gallery (NY)
Monkey Hobo, 2009 / oil on linen / 84 x 68 inches
Collection of Santa Barbara Museum of Art (CA)
Long Hair Hobo #2, 2008 / oil on canvas / 84 x 68 inches
Collection of The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada)
Performance, 2006 / oil on canvas / 96 x 136 inches
Collection of Laguna Art Museum (CA)
Ape Woman, 2006 / oil on canvas / 60 x 72 inches
Collection of Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA)
Ape Woman, 2006
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Albino (Ape Woman #2), 2006 / oil on canvas / 60 x 72 inches
Collection of Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA)
Hobo with Bird, 2009 / 84" x 68" / oil on linen
Red Flowers #2, 2008 / oil on canvas / 20 x 16 inches
Hobo Clown, 2008 / NTSC color DVD / 5:05 min / edition of 5, 3 APs / still
Hobo Clown #2, 2008 / oil on canvas / 84 x 68 inches
Hobo Clown #2, 2008 / oil on canvas / 84 x 68 inches
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Allison Schulnik uses painting, ceramics, and hand-made, traditional animation to choreograph her subjects in compositions that embody a spirit of the macabre, a Shakespearean comedy/tragedy of love, death, and farce. Her works were compared to "the comic-grotesque visionary James Ensor" by The New York Times.
Schulnik has been making animated films since she was 17. Her films have been included in internationally renowned festivals and museums including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, LACMA, Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Animafest Zagreb. She received “Best Experimental Animation” at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and Special Jury Prize at SXSW FIlm.
Solo exhibitions include the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OK; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles; ZieherSmith, New York, NY; and Galeria Javier Lopez & Fer Frances, Madrid. Schulnik's work is in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Santa Barbara Art Museum; Museé de Beaux Arts (Montreal); Laguna Art Museum; The Crocker Art Museum; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; and The Albright-Knox Gallery - to name but a few. She lives and works in Sky Valley, CA.