Shana Moulton

Shana Moulton
Born (1976-07-17) July 17, 1976
Oakhurst, California
Nationality American
Known for Video art
Notable work Whispering Pines, The Mountain Where Everything is Upside Down
Awards Creative Capital Grant (2013)

Shana Moulton is a media artist who explores contemporary anxieties through her filmic alter ego, Cynthia. Based in New York City, Shana uses colorful psychedelic performance to describe pathetic situations with humorous surrealism.[1]

Background and education

Born in Oakhurst, California, Shana Moulton attended the University of California, Berkeley and continued to receive a MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. She has also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and De Ateliers in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Moulton has been an artist in resident at Harvestworks, New York City (2008) and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2011), and she has also received fellowships and grants from the Experimental Television Center (2009), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2009), and Harvestworks (2010).[2] She currently works in Brooklyn, New York.[3]

Works

Whispering Pines

The 10-part video series, Whispering Pines follows the protagonist's search for perfect health and peace through consumer objects.[4] Cynthia, Moulton's intimately autobiographical, surreal, video alter-ego, interacts with appropriated new-age marginalia, prescription drugs, and beauty products assembled into a whimsical scene of feminine anxiety.[5] Moulton explains that she is not required to 'get into character' for Cynthia; Cynthia is always there. Moulton says of her alter-ego, "It's me in the bathroom; it's me worried about aging; it's me looking at a beauty magazine... We share a brain. I don't even think of her as a character. It's just me." [6] Through Moulton's narrative of self-discovery, Cynthia gains relief from the social pressures of her domestic products by using them in non-prescribed ways.[7]

Exhibitions

Solo

References

  1. ↑ Beck, Graham T. "Focus: Shana Moulton". Frieze.
  2. ↑ Shana Moulton
  3. ↑ "Shana Moulton". Electronic Arts Intermix. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
  4. ↑ Fernald, Chris; Linnert, Nicolas; Garrard, Rachel; Kardel, Sissel; Kramer, Lola; Meager, Patrick (2013). "Productions of meaningful transformation within feminine consumer experiences". Silvershed Reader. 2.
  5. ↑ Droitcour, Brian. "The Object Whisperer: Shana Moulton's Whispering Pines". Rhizome.
  6. ↑ Beck, Graham Frieze October 2012
  7. ↑ Antonini, Marco (November 2009). "Shana Moulton". 269. Flash Art.
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