Compositions made from the visual rhythms of urban settings includes work from experimental animator Eric Dyer, Dutch animator Johan Rijpma, and Minnesota indie animator Caleb Wood.
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Peephole Cinema is presenting Street Sets, compositions made from the visual rhythms of urban settings. Work from Eric Dyer, Johan Rijpma and Caleb Wood will be on view from February 15th through March 27th, 2016.
Eric Dyer is an artist, filmmaker, experimental animator, and educator. He has animated umbrellas, vinyl records and even a hot air balloon. In Coversong he finds motion hidden underfoot by animating manhole covers. Dyer is a Baltimore based artist. His award-winning films have screened internationally at numerous festivals, including the Chicago International Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, South by Southwest, and the London International Animation Festival among many others. His work has been exhibited at the Exploratorium, the Hirshhorn, the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art, Prix Ars Electronica and the Cairo and Venice Biennales. He is a recent recipient of a Creative Capital award and is currently working on a tunnel zoetrope.
Johan Rijpma makes short animations that study systematic procedures and the unpredictability of everyday life. He sparks fascination in such common items as paper, plastic tape, balloons, slate and water. In Tegels he photographed street tiles and set them in motion to find their hidden melodies. Rijpma is based in Utrecht. He studied image and media technology at the Utrecht School of Arts. His work has received multiple awards and has been screened at an international selection of venues including the Eye Film Institute, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Animateka, Klik and Prix Ars Electronica. Currently he is a resident at JAPIC in Tokyo.
Caleb Wood is interested in the dynamism of what might be overlooked or mundane. He has an urge to get closer and understand things better and uses animation as a way to make the complex more approachable. In his work Bird Shit he used animated cellphone photos of bird droppings on pavement to reveal bird behavior. Wood is an independent animator living in northern Minnesota. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and he has been honored with a residency at JAPIC in Tokyo. He has screened his work in numerous festivals including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Eye Works Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival and the Stop & Go festival among others.
Peephole Cinema curator Sarah Klein is a San Francisco Bay Area artist, curator and educator. She is the co-organizer of the Croatian Animation Cultural Exchange and has curated for Root Division Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Rhodes & Fletcher, San Francisco, CA and the Present Group’s Art Micro Patronage. Recently she co-curated Doppler Extended Play: A Program of Time-Based Art for the New Jersey Center for Visual Art, Summit, NJ. In 2008 she began curating the animation program Stop & Go that features stop-motion works by visual artists and filmmakers. Currently Klein is touring the fourth installment of the show called Stop & Go: Made From Scratch.
Source: Peephole Cinema
