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SUMMARY:Ezra Johnson: Selected Animations
DESCRIPTION:On view through Feb. 9\, 2020 \nNew work by Tampa\, Florida-based artist Ezra Johnson in the Screening Room. \nArtist Statement:\n* What Visions Burn 2006 — What Visions Burn was the first animation I ever made. I was getting my MFA at Hunter College in New York and decided to go for it four months before my thesis exhibition after seeing the work of William Kentridge at the MOMA. I wondered what it would be like in paint and went to my studio on 41st street and made the sequence where a silhouetted figure cuts a painting out of the frame that night. I did it by balancing my Cannon Elf camera on a book and shooting the painting against the wall. Because I didn’t have a tripod\, you can see the camera wiggle a lot. The next days\, weeks\, and months I made more and more footage\, most everything I made became What Visions Burn. The processes are invented to solve the problem of each unique scene. I never studied animation so I never learned how else to do it. I used oil paint frame by frame to make certain parts\, such as the sky in the opening. I used collage components and photocopies of drawings to make other parts\, like the police chase. In many scenes\, I combined both techniques. I was exhilarated by inventing new ways to make images and to tell stories. \n* Endless Surface 2016 — Endless Surface was created over the course of one month while I was teaching in Paris. I wanted to make an animation where the narrative wasn’t created by moving characters from scene to scene but by morphing one image into another. I was thinking of the cross-dissolve transitions that Hollywood films use in flashback sequences. This approach makes it less about storytelling and more like “a heap of broken images\,” as T.S. Elliot wrote in The Waste Land: “What are the roots that clutch\, what branches grow/Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man\,/You cannot say\, or guess\, for you know only/A heap of broken images\, where the sun beats… \n* River 2018 — Currently\, I live on the Hillsborough River in Tampa\, Florida. At certain times\, especially after a hard rain I am appalled by the vast amount of trash that floats by or washes up on the banks. This river is home to manatees\, dolphins\, alligators\, large turtles\, and tons of different types of fish. I find it difficult to deal with my shock and frustration by people’s indifference to the environment. I’ve been cleaning what I could since I moved here in 2015\, and then I started painting the trash in 2018 and made this animation. I’ve always loved to use objects and logos from commercial culture in my work. With “River\,” I was able to do that and make a piece that addressed my frustrations at the same time. I decided to zoom out and show the process of animating through the tools at work in the margins. I enjoy the combination of the two kinds of work happening at once: There is the river with its flow pushing an absurd quantity of objects from the right to the left and there are the tools lined up on the edges\, organized for efficiency while making the illusion happen. \n* Trampoline and Shapeshifter 2008\nTrampoline and Shapeshifter were both made as screensavers\, commissioned by the DIA Center in New York. They are an example of the two main approaches I’ve developed to create the animations. Trampoline is made using collage paintings on cut paper\, where if you look closely\, you can see that there are only ten or so components that are used over and over to make an infinite loop. \nShapeshifter is made by moving oil paint; basically painting\, taking a shot\, and repainting over and over. If you look closely\, you can see traces of paint from the previous frame that weren’t entirely wiped away. \nAbout the artist:\nEzra Johnson was born in 1975 in Wenatchee Washington. His work moves between painting\, sculpture and animation. Johnson has exhibited his work at The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas\, The Hammer museum in Los Angeles\, Site Santa Fe in New Mexico as well as having regular exhibitions at prestigious galleries in the US and abroad. Mr. Johnson currently lives and works in Tampa\, Fl.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/ezra-johnson-what-visions-burn/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, Screening Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for Ezra Johnson: Selected Animations
DESCRIPTION:On view through Feb. 9\, 2020 \nNew work by Tampa\, Florida-based artist Ezra Johnson in the Screening Room. \nEzra Johnson was born in 1975 in Wenatchee Washington. His work moves between painting\, sculpture and animation. Johnson has exhibited his work at The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas\, The Hammer museum in Los Angeles\, Site Santa Fe in New Mexico as well as having regular exhibitions at prestigious galleries in the US and abroad. Mr. Johnson currently lives and works in Tampa\, Fl.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/opening-reception-for-ezra-johnson-what-visions-burn/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, Screening Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Wang Chen: The Sin Park
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Screening Room at Crosstown Arts for a new exhibition of work by Wang Chen. Chen’s work will also be exhibited on the pop-out walls in the East Atrium. \nWang Chen is a multimedia artist whose work incorporates installation\, performance\, drawing and animation to create digital videos that depict fantasy worlds with humanoid characters\, whom she uses to examine gender\, sexuality\, and politics. By layering different mediums into one digital composition\, Chen creates an overwhelming fantasy world of multiple\, moveable layers and elements that together become unstoppable and continuously transforming as a way of considering the possibilities of imagined worlds. \nIn her videos\, hand-sewn costumes fuse the human body into the virtual space where humanness blends in\, dissolves\, and potentially succumbs to the digital fantasy. As the costumed performer\, Chen herself becomes a physical component of the worlds she creates\, becoming multiple. These clones represent variously unstable identities:  undefined genders\, cartoonish humanoids\, ghostlike apparitions and thus can adopt multiple identities\, abstracting her own role as the artist-architect to become many things at once. \nChen’s playground of electric city-space\, neon landscapes\, and nightmarish amusement parks becomes itself a representation\, if not a fun-house mirror\, of our own reality.  The juxtaposition and melting of these dark yet fantastical scenes act as a playful reflection of Chen’s complicated response and rejection of societal norms while constructing a new vision of gender and sexuality in our world. \nThis work may not be appropriate for younger audiences. \nAbout Wang Chen:\nWang Chen was born in China and is a multimedia artist currently living and working in NYC. The installations that Chen creates begin with physical drawings. Chen makes costumes and props for her videos and builds unimaginable spaces using virtual reality. Chen received her BFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work has been exhibited/screened internationally in China\, UK\, US\, Sweden\, Venezuela\, and Greece. Chen has participated in several residencies including The Studios at MASS MoCA\, the NYFA Immigrant Mentoring Program\, and the Crosstown Arts artist residency program. She is the fellowship recipient of Roswell Artist in Residency\, Vermont Studio Center and Nars Foundation.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/chen-wang-the-sin-park/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, Screening Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception — Wang Chen: The Sin Park
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an opening reception of new work by artist Wang Chen. Chen’s work will be on view in the Screening Room at Crosstown Arts and projected onto walls in the East Atrium. On view through October 20. \nWang Chen is a multimedia artist whose work incorporates installation\, performance\, drawing and animation to create digital videos that depict fantasy worlds with humanoid characters\, whom she uses to examine gender\, sexuality\, and politics. By layering different mediums into one digital composition\, Chen creates an overwhelming fantasy world of multiple\, moveable layers and elements that together become unstoppable and continuously transforming as a way of considering the possibilities of imagined worlds. \nIn her videos\, hand-sewn costumes fuse the human body into the virtual space where humanness blends in\, dissolves\, and potentially succumbs to the digital fantasy. As the costumed performer\, Chen herself becomes a physical component of the worlds she creates\, becoming multiple. These clones represent variously unstable identities:  undefined genders\, cartoonish humanoids\, ghostlike apparitions and thus can adopt multiple identities\, abstracting her own role as the artist-architect to become many things at once. \nChen’s playground of electric city-space\, neon landscapes\, and nightmarish amusement parks becomes itself a representation\, if not a fun-house mirror\, of our own reality.  The juxtaposition and melting of these dark yet fantastical scenes act as a playful reflection of Chen’s complicated response and rejection of societal norms while constructing a new vision of gender and sexuality in our world. \nThis work may not be appropriate for younger audiences. \nAbout Wang Chen:\nWang Chen was born in China and is a multimedia artist currently living and working in NYC. The installations that Chen creates begin with physical drawings. Chen makes costumes and props for her videos and builds unimaginable spaces using virtual reality. Chen received her BFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work has been exhibited/screened internationally in China\, UK\, US\, Sweden\, Venezuela\, and Greece. Chen has participated in several residencies including The Studios at MASS MoCA and the NYFA Immigrant Mentoring Program. She is the fellowship recipient of Roswell Artist in Residency\, Vermont Studio Center and Nars Foundation.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/opening-reception-chen-wang-the-sin-park/
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: New Work by Coriana Close
DESCRIPTION:Opening reception for video art by Coriana Close \nAbout the artist:\nCoriana Close was recently promoted to Associate Professor of Photography at The University of Memphis. She has a BA in Cinema Studies with Honors in Studio Art from Oberlin College\, and an MFA in Photography from The University of Arizona. Coriana works in both still photography and appropriated layered video. Conceptually her work focuses on social justice\, state-sanctioned violence\, and the relationship between human beings and the natural world. Her work has been noted in publications including the Philadelphia Inquirer\, UA News\, Athens News\, Chronicle Tribune\, and the Republican American. She has exhibited and lectured in universities and galleries across the United States.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/opening-reception-active-shooter/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, Screening Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:New Work: Coriana Close
DESCRIPTION:Video art by Coriana Close \nAbout the artist:\nCoriana Close was recently promoted to Associate Professor of Photography at The University of Memphis. She has a BA in Cinema Studies with Honors in Studio Art from Oberlin College\, and an MFA in Photography from The University of Arizona. Coriana works in both still photography and appropriated layered video. Conceptually her work focuses on social justice\, state-sanctioned violence\, and the relationship between human beings and the natural world. Her work has been noted in publications including the Philadelphia Inquirer\, UA News\, Athens News\, Chronicle Tribune\, and the Republican American. She has exhibited and lectured in universities and galleries across the United States. \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/active-shooter/
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SUMMARY:Point in Time — Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Opening reception for an exhibition of video art by Janaye Brown.\nLocation: Screening Room\, plus pop-out film panels in the East Atrium \nPoint in Time presents sixteen of Brown’s minimalist videos made within the past seven years. Brown makes videos based on pregnant moments observed in her everyday life. Her filmmaking background informs the techniques used to build and sustain a sense of anticipation while emphasizing the passage of time. Through an extended look at a narrative fragment\, often with a single action as its focus\, the subtlest shifts become prominent\, and the viewer has time to examine everything within the mise-en-scène. She seeks access to the tension and mystique that lay beneath the surface of familiarity. \nAbout the artist:\nJanaye Brown has exhibited at venues and film festivals including New York City’s Studio Museum Harlem\, the Dallas Video Fest\, The Banff Centre in Alberta\, Canada and Shulamit Nazarian in Los Angeles. She has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of\nPainting and Sculpture\, the Bruce High Quality Foundation University and Crosstown Arts as well as others. Brown received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013 and her BA in Cinematic Arts and Technology from California State University Monterey Bay in 2010. She currently lives and works in Xiamen\, Fujian\, China.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/point-in-time-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, Screening Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Atrium,Screening Room
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SUMMARY:Point in Time
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition of video art by Janaye Brown.\nLocation: Screening Room\, plus pop-out film panels in the East Atrium \nPoint in Time presents sixteen of Brown’s minimalist videos made within the past seven years. Brown makes videos based on pregnant moments observed in her everyday life. Her filmmaking background informs the techniques used to build and sustain a sense of anticipation while emphasizing the passage of time. Through an extended look at a narrative fragment\, often with a single action as its focus\, the subtlest shifts become prominent\, and the viewer has time to examine everything within the mise-en-scène. She seeks access to the tension and mystique that lay beneath the surface of familiarity. \nAbout the artist:\nJanaye Brown has exhibited at venues and film festivals including New York City’s Studio Museum Harlem\, the Dallas Video Fest\, The Banff Centre in Alberta\, Canada and Shulamit Nazarian in Los Angeles. She has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, the Bruce High Quality Foundation University and Crosstown Arts as well as others. Brown received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013 and her BA in Cinematic Arts and Technology from California State University Monterey Bay in 2010. She currently lives and works in Xiamen\, Fujian\, China.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/point-in-time/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, Screening Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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