Allison Schulnik

Allison Schulnik
Born1978 (age 47–48)
San Diego, California, U.S.
Alma materCalifornia Institute of the Arts
Known forPainting, sculpture, film, and video animations
SpouseEric Yahnker
Children1
Websiteallisonschulnik.me

Allison Schulnik (born 1978) is an American painter, sculptor, and animated filmmaker. She is known for her heavily textured, impasto oil paintings and her animated short videos.

Early life and education

Schulnik was born in San Diego in 1978.[1] In 2000, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts.[2][3]

Art practice

A multidisciplinary artist, Schulnik is known both for her paintings and her animated video and film works.

As a painter, her signature style is to use thick layers of oil paint to create heavily textured works that are almost sculptural in terms of their depth.[4][5] These paintings often begin by creating preliminary drawings, followed by the creation of the painting, where she relies on spontaneity and gesture to create texture with her hands.[6][7] Thematically, her paintings often depict phantom-like creatures and boneless animals that appear to be melting off of the canvas.[8][9]

Schulnik's animated works begin with the creation of small sculptures of figures and objects made from clay, paint and other materials.[2][9] She has also used traditional hand-drawn animation techniques in some works.[10][11]

Her freestanding sculptural works, usually made of ceramic, are often exhibited alongside her paintings and animated works.[12][13]

Schulnik's collaborations with musicians include the 2009 stop-motion/claymation video Forest for the song Ready, Able by Grizzly Bear.[14][15][16] In 2015, Deafheaven selected a painting by Schulnik to use for the cover art of their album New Bermuda.[17]

Personal life

Schulnik is married to fellow artist Eric Yahnker. They live and work in Sky Valley, California and have one daughter.[18][19]

Solo exhibitions

  • 2007: Fools, Rejects, and Sanctuaries, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2007: No Luck, Rokeby Gallery, London, UK
  • 2008: No Luck Too, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2009: Go West, Mark Moore Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2009: Allison Schulnik, Unosunove, Rome, IT
  • 2010: Home for Hobo, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA[20]
  • 2010: Home for Hobo Too, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago[21]
  • 2011: Performance, Division Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
  • 2011: Mound, ZieherSmith, New York, NY[12][22]
  • 2012: Mound, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, MO
  • 2012: Mound, Oklahoma City Art Museum, OK
  • 2012: Salty Air, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2013: EX.POSE: Allison Schulnik, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, California[4][13]
  • 2014: Eager, ZieherSmith, New York[23]
  • 2014: Allison Schulnik/Martix 168, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut[24]
  • 2016: Hoof, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, California[5]
  • 2016: Hoof II, ZieherSmith, New York[25][26]
  • 2017: Eager, Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, Michigan[27]
  • 2017: Nest, Galeria Jaier Lopez & Fer Frances, Madrid, Spain[28]
  • 2020: Hatch, PPOW, New York[29]

Filmography and videography

  • 1997: The Slaying, 16mm stop-motion/live action animated film, 1:00[15]
  • 1999: Vedma, 16mm stop-motion animated film, 5:00[15]
  • 2000: Pistachio, 16mm stop-motion animated film, 7:00[15]
  • 2008: Hobo Clown, stop-motion/claymation video, 5:00[4]
  • 2009: Forest, stop-motion/claymation video, 4:30, for the song Ready, Able by Grizzly Bear, from the album Veckatimest[14][15][16]
  • 2011: Mound, stop-motion/claymation video, 4:33[22][30]
  • 2014: Eager, stop-motion/claymation video, 8:30[31][32]
  • 2019: Moth, hand-painted gouache on paper, animated video, 3:15[10][11]

Awards

Collections

References

  1. ^ New American Paintings. Open Studios Press. 2008.
  2. ^ a b Johnson, Ken (December 15, 2011). "Allison Schulnik: 'Mound' (Published 2011)". The New York Times.
  3. ^ a b Anderson, Susan Mary (2009). Collecting California: Selections from Laguna Art Museum. Laguna Art Museum. ISBN 978-0-940872-36-3.
  4. ^ a b c Chang, Richard (March 15, 2013). "Laguna Art Museum offers smorgasbord". Orange County Register.
  5. ^ a b "Talking Mermaids and Bacchanalia with Painter Allison Schulnik". Vice.com. December 30, 2015.
  6. ^ "October 2008, Allison Schulnik @ Mike Weiss Gallery". Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  7. ^ Maine, Stephen (February 24, 2009). "Allison Schulnik". ARTnews.com.
  8. ^ "I Tend To Overdo It Sometimes". HuffPost. March 2, 2013. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  9. ^ a b "ZieherSmith". www.artforum.com. January 26, 2014. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  10. ^ a b "A Gorgeous Hand-Painted Animation Illustrating the Circle of Life With a Moth Floating About in the Wind". Laughing Squid. June 5, 2019.
  11. ^ a b "Juxtapoz Magazine, Moth: Allison Schulnik's Beautiful Hand-Painted, Gouache-on-Paper Film". www.juxtapoz.com.
  12. ^ a b Kangas, Matthew (December 1, 2012). "Allison Schulnik". Sculpture.
  13. ^ a b "Laguna Art Museum's Allison Schulnik Show is Beautifully Unpretty". Laguna Beach, CA Patch. April 18, 2013.
  14. ^ a b Christie, Tom (November 18, 2009). "Exclusive Interview with L.A. Artist Allison Schulnik About Her New Claymation Video for Grizzly Bear". LA Weekly.
  15. ^ a b c d e Garza, Evan J. (December 2008). "Spotlight: Allison Shulnik". New American Paintings, 85: 14–17.
  16. ^ a b Solomon, Tessa (April 10, 2020). "8 Essential Artist-Directed Music Videos by Andy Warhol, Kara Walker, and More". ARTnews.com. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  17. ^ Minsker, Evan (July 28, 2015). "Deafheaven Detail New Album New Bermuda". Pitchfork. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  18. ^ "Art Mamas: Allison Schulnik on Making Time for What You Need". Whitewall. March 26, 2020. Retrieved November 28, 2020. It was the artist's first presentation since giving birth to her daughter and moving out to the desert of Sky Valley, CA.
  19. ^ Bogojev, Sasha (February 18, 2020). "Hatch: Allison Schulnik's Debut @ P.P.O.W. NYC". Juxtapoz magazine. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  20. ^ Pagel, David (January 15, 2010). "Art review: Allison Schulnik at Mark Moore". LA Times Blogs - Culture Monster.
  21. ^ "Artist and Alumna Allison Schulnik Talks Hobo Clowns and Grizzly Bear". blog.calarts.edu. April 21, 2010.
  22. ^ a b "Allison Schulnik". The New Yorker.
  23. ^ Jovanovich, Alex (January 26, 2014). "ZieherSmith". www.artforum.com.
  24. ^ Amidi, Amid (February 8, 2014). "Allison Schulnik Exhibits Stop Motion Film at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum". Cartoon Brew.
  25. ^ Samet, Jennifer (October 1, 2016). ""Vulnerability Could Be the New Stoic": Paintings by Allison Schulnik". Hyperallergic.
  26. ^ Murtha, Chris (September 23, 2016). "ZieherSmith". www.artforum.com.
  27. ^ "Mound | Flint Institute of Arts". flintarts.org.
  28. ^ "Juxtapoz Magazine - Installation: Allison Schulnik "Nest" @ Galería Javier López & Fer Francés, Madrid". www.juxtapoz.com.
  29. ^ "Allison Schulnik". The New Yorker.
  30. ^ a b "Mound · Allison Schulnik". www.jccc.edu.
  31. ^ Jaeger, William (November 8, 2019). "The art of movement stars in exhibit at Schick". Times Union.
  32. ^ Wigler, Josh. "Director Allison Schulnik Crafts An 'Eager' Dance In New Short Film". MTV News. Archived from the original on September 23, 2014.
  33. ^ Macaulay, Scott (March 17, 2010). "THE SXSW 2010 WINNERS". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  34. ^ Bowers, Jeffery (March 18, 2014). "I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: Unabashedly Weird SXSW Shorts". Vice magazine. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  35. ^ "Ottawa International Animation Festival 2014". www.animationfestival.ca. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  36. ^ "Mound | Albright-Knox". www.albrightknox.org.
  37. ^ "Allison Schulnik". Escalette Permanent Collection of Art at Chapman University.
  38. ^ "Allison Schulnik acquired by Crocker Art Museum". Mark Moore Fine Art Blog. August 16, 2016.
  39. ^ "Dempster". Farnsworth Art Museum Collection Online.
  40. ^ "Mound | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org.
  41. ^ "Allison Schulnik: Misfits (Porcelain)". mfah.org.
  42. ^ "Allison Schulnik Vidéogramme". mbam.qc.ca.
  43. ^ "Albino (Ape Woman #2)". collection.mcasd.org.
  44. ^ "Monkey Hobo". collections.sbma.net.
  45. ^ "Allison Schulnik – U.S. Department of State". art.state.gov.
  46. ^ "Wadsworth Atheneum Collection". 5058.sydneyplus.com.
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