The week of April 25th, 2016, I began unpacking over twelve hundred dolls that I created for my installation (In)/Animate Objects at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery as part of the 2016 COLA Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition.
When I tasked myself to mass-produce over a thousand dolls, a pop-up community of artist and non-artist collaborators formed in LA and remotely in Louisville, Connecticut, Brooklyn, Boston, Providence and as far as Amsterdam. Our process appropriated aspects of quilting bees. As our hands collectively stitched irregularities, our minds contemplated the idea of identity: a repetition of a repetition for which there is no original.
Thank you to my extended network of friends and family who donated time and resources to help make the dolls happen.
INDIVIDUALS
Aimee Rousey
Adrian Rose Leonard
Ajax Stevens Hulce
Alicia Louise Wells
Alissa Hunnicutt
Allison de Fren
Amanda Faith Maddock
Amy Rush
Andrew Schmedake
Anne Clendening
Ariel Brickman
Automata
Ben Durocher
Broome Street
General Store
Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Cheryl Revkin
Chris Sheets
Christine Papalexis
Dayna Mondello
Debra Broz
Devra Golden
Dolores De Lellis
Donna De Lellis
Eric Brightwell
Georgette Perantoni
Henry Watkins
Janie Geiser
Jenny Brown
Jean Marie Keevins
Jen Dohn Watkins
Jessie Anna Martinez-Wilton
Kate Katz
Kelly Hargraves
Kristin Charney
Lisa G. French
Liz Hara
Liz Brown
Liz Watson
Leah Olbrich
The Los Angeles
High School of the Arts
Luca Dalzell
Matilda Dohn Watkins
Martin Nepton
Mia Dalzell
Morgan Rebane
Maria Cristina Jimenez
Michele Dunn
O-Lan Jones
Pam Arciero
Peggy Maltby Etra
Peter Ceili
PJ McWhiskers
Renata De Lellis
Ronald De Lellis
Sarah Oh
Sharon Challenger
Simone C. Williams
Spencer Lott
Stephan Counts
Taylor Bibat
Tiffany Hope
Tina Koneazny
Tim Lagasse
Tony Agostinelli
Una Zipagan
velvet leigh
Wyatt Gray
Yoko Kanayama
City of Los Angeles
Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition
Sunday, May 15th, 2016
through
Sunday, July 3rd, 2016
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
4800 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90027
Open
Thursdays through Sundays,
12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m.
Admission is free
GENERAL INFORMATION
Call 323.644.6269
Visit lamag.org
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On June 4th I spoke with Allison de Fren at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery on the handmade bodies that populate my work in the COLA Fellowship Exhibition and my obsessions the (in)/animate. (More)
Valley of the Uncanny Dolls:
An interview with Allison de Fren
Mechanical Bride is a feature-length documentary that explores the sf fantasy of creating the perfect woman and the current-day reality of artificial companions in the sex and robotics industries. Filmmaker Allison de Fren approaches her subjects with depth and sensitivity, exploring the roles of Doll / Owner, Real / Synthetic, and Living / Dead. (More)
Most of the time, the dolls were inanimate, but from time to time, I came to the gallery to animate them. (More)
(In)/Animate Objects was made possible with funding from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and through fabrication and assistance from numerous individuals.
