JEFF ZILM 7023629730
OTHER GALLERY: ALLISON SCHULNIK: HOBO CLOWN
JUNE 13 - JULY 18, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 13, 6-8 pm
Marty Walker Gallery is pleased to announce 7023629730, an exhibition of new works by Jeff Zilm. For this exhibition Zilm will install six new paintings, a sculpture and a video. The centerpiece of the exhibition, referred to in the title of the show, is a painting of the Jerry Lewis film The Bellboy from 1960. It will be presented alongside various early short comedies and horror titles as well as two single reel Scholastic films - Rural Health Workers and Economies of Africa. The video on view, Free Interval from 1999 and exhibited at Pat Hearn Gallery in 2000 has never been presented in Dallas. Also included will be a collage executed with Sonja Lowrey, a long time close collaborator.
Zilm continues to make paintings by transferring complete films, materially, from reel to canvas. Through a process of chemical destabilization he is able to extract the sound and image data from the celluloid base of a reel of film and bind it with an acrylic emulsion. The process is completed by literally re-projecting the film onto a canvas with an industrial paint sprayer. In each instance the artist observes a strict 1:1 ratio – one film equals one painting. A short film, like a Tod Browning film from the 1930's, can go on a medium size canvas. The resulting painting, existing as a kind of spectral presence, is both collapsed montage and impenetrable mise en scène - the terminal edit.
Former Chinati Foundation artist-in-residence, Jeff Zilm graduated with a BA from the University of North Texas and has shown his paintings and videos in a number of exhibitions, including the group exhibition Texas Nexus at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Dallas Museum of Art; Pat Hearn Gallery; and the Jewish Museum, New York, among others. Zilm currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas.
Picture above, lefto to right: Jeff Zilm's Untitled (The Pharmacist), 2008, dye, acrylic emulsion & optical sound on canvas, 54 x 66 inches; The Bellboy, 1960, comedy film starring, written by & directed by Jerry Lewis; video still from Jeff Zilm's Free Interval, 1999, computer generated projection.
OTHER GALLERY: Marty Walker Gallery presents LA based artist Allison Schulnik's claymation video "Hobo Clown" (video still, pictured above). Schulnik’s stop-motion HD video “Hobo Clown”, depicts ambiguously sad and scary clowns as they rotate and mutate, their wildly expressive eyes repetitively transformed through explosive swirling colors, while a languid, contemplative, flowery sequence hints at something momentarily joyful. Hobo Clown captures in claymation Schulnik’s compulsive gestural brushwork, beautifully decadent use of paint, and the nightmarish if at times wistful narrative depicted throughout the artist’s work.
Schulnik received a BFA in Experimental Animation at the California Institute of Arts in 2000. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally at venues including Basel; The Armory Show, New York; Rokeby Gallery, London; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Santa Monica Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas.
DIRECTIONS We are located between the Anatole Hotel and Irving Blvd.
Take Oak Lawn west of I-35 to Irving Blvd. Turn right. Go to Manufacturing Street, turn right, then turn left on Farrington. The gallery is at the end of the street on the left.
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