Category archives: Mixed Media
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Jeanne Wilkinson is an artist, curator and writer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Formerly an abstract painter, her paintings and drawings are now elements in complex collages and animations that merge fantasy and reality. Using tools like Photoshop, After Effects, Garageband and a Nikon camera, she creates a kind of digital alchemy. Coming from the lakes and fields of Minnesota and Wisconsin, she earned her MFA at Pratt and now shares a studio in downtown Brooklyn with her husband, artist Frank Lind. The vivid sense of color and respect for earthly beauty in her work reflects time spent on a rural commune and eight years of dairy farming in Wisconsin. Her artwork has been shown extensively in New York and internationally. She has taught at Pratt Institute and currently teaches art and art history at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, in Brooklyn, NY.
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Some of Jeanne Wilkinson's digital collages and animations document the travels and vision quests of the Painted People, a kind of Paleo-Postmodern migratory clan. Called "iridescent" by art critic Dan Bischoff, these former Barbies, Kens and GI Joes trek across the face of an earth that becomes more alive, more revelatory of its underlying forces as they pass. Cities become strange night places where streets are fluid streams, skies morph into oceans and buildings dissolve into fantastic life-forms.
The Painted People's first adventure--Western Walkabout--was a collaboration between Wilkinson and her son, Andrew Yonda (photographer/musician). These real-time photos were taken on a trip mirroring one she took 1969, but instead of traveling in a psychedelic VW microbus, the Painted People rode the Horse With No Name (HWNN) and Mr. Blue the Toad on their journey from the mountains to the sea. In the Sky People, Night in the City, and Alight series, the imagery is layered with her photos of nature, the city, the dolls, and her artwork. Now with three babies and many more creatures, the clan traverses a world of strange premonitions, environmental change (apocalypse?) and natural magic.
Other series involve using paintings or details of paintings and, with After Effects, making them move and morph within their own “movies”—as if the painting were having a dream of itself.
She has made several series that involve using two projectors on opposite walls, and two parallel tr[...]
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