(In)/Animate Objects, Individual Support

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

RELATED

ARTIST TALK

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)

PUPPETRY INTERNATIONAL

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)

ACTIVATION TIMES

Most of the time, the dolls were inanimate, but from time to time, I came to the gallery to animate them. (More)

PRESS

CHRONOLOGY

2019
Love
&/or Fear
2019
Rosalux
2017
Auction
2017
COLA20
2016
COLA

SUPPORT

(In)/Animate Objects was made possible with funding from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and through fabrication and assistance from numerous individuals.