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Jodie Mack is an experimental animator who received her MFA in film, video, and new media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and meaning. Musical documentary or stroboscopic archive: her films study domestic and recycled materials to illuminate the elements shared between fine-art abstraction and mass-produced graphic design. The works unleash the kinetic energy of overlooked and wasted objects and question the role of decoration in daily life.
Selected Films:
2018
The Grand Bizarre (60m, 16mm, color, sound)
Hoarders Without Borders (4m45s, 16mm, color, silent)
2017
Wasteland No. 1: Ardent, Verdant (4m30s, 16mm, color, silent)
Goody Goody (3m, super 16mmà DV, color, sound)
2016
Curses (4m45s, digital video, color, sound)
2015
Something Between Us (10m, 16mm, color, sound)
2014
Razzle Dazzle (5m, 16mm, color, silent)
2013
New Fancy Foils (12m30s, 16mm, color, silent)
Undertone Overture (10m, 16mm, color, sound)
Glistening Thrills (8m30s, 16mm, color, sound)
Let Your Light Shine (2m45s, 16mm, b/w and color, sound)
Dusty Stacks of Mom: the Poster Project (41m, 16mm, color, sound)
Blanket Statement #2: All or Nothing (3m, 16mm, color, sound)
2012
Blanket Statement #1: Home is Where the Heart is (3m, 16mm, color, sound)
MackDash (23m, 70mm, color, sound)
Persian Pickles (2m45s, 16mm, color, sound)
Point de Gaze (4m30s, 16mm, color, silent)
2011
August Song (5m, DV, color, sound)
The Future is Bright (3m, 16mm, color, live sound)
2010
Rad Plaid (5m, 16mm, color, silent)
Posthaste Perennial Pattern (3m38s, 16mm, color, sound)
Unsubscribe #1: Special Offer Inside (3m, 16mm, color, sound)
Unsubscribe #2: All Eyes on the Silver Screen (3m, 16mm, b/w, silent)
Unsubscribe #3: Glitch Envy (4m45s, 16mm, color, sound)
Unsubscribe #4: The Saddest Song in the World (2m45s, 16mm, color, sound)
Selected Installations:
2018
Glitch Envy, Govett Brewster Art Gallery—New Plymouth, NZ
Three Screens for Looking at Abstraction, Columbus Museum of Art—Columbus, OH
Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro, Museum of Art and Design—New York, NY
Phantom Horizons, Kuenstlerhaus—Berlin, NY
In Any Direction, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Harvard University—Cambridge, MA
2017
Visual Intelligence, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Harvard University—Cambridge, MA
Deep Time, Radiator Gallery—Queens, NY
Fashion in Film, Goldsmiths—London, UK
Color Play, Art Blocks—Houston, TX
2016
Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts—Melbourne, FL
Peephole Cinema—San Francisco, CA
Dhaka Art Summit—Dhaka, Bangladesh
2015
Verge Art Fair, Art Toronto—Toronto, Canada
Material Girl—Dunlop Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
2014
Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale—Shenzhen, China
Making Space,City Limits—Oakland, CA
Undertone Overture: Jodie Mack, The Walls—Queensland, Australia
Crossing Terrain: Isabelle Hayeur, Jon Sasaki, Jodie Mack, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria—Victoria, BC, Canada