Marty Walker Gallery ♥ Allison Schulnik...& DAILY SERVING too!
DAILY SERVING 'an international forum for the contemporary visual arts' had some very nice things to say about our exhibition of Allison Schulnik's mesmerizing claymation video Hobo Clown (2008), video stills pictured.
"The few minutes that it runs are some of the most heartbreaking, kaleidoscopic, breathtaking and gracefully tragic that you might ever spend on viewing art. Schulnik has created a messily pinched and sumptuously colored world of upside-down-smile wearing clowns, dragging along a vast lonesomeness of delicate floral arrangements and faded landscape, to the mesmerizing music of Grizzly Bear. You just want to climb inside the video and wrap the folds of clay around yourself, maybe fall asleep to the heartbreaking guitar strums. Around the point when the song's first lyrics hum "Why don't you do any dishes?"--which surprisingly isn't at all distracting, as is the case with much of the music played over video work--things turn psychedelic, but in an honest and fresh way."
-by Allison Gibson
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