As well as nine works born from Shpungin’s previous project, the monumental Drawing Of A House (Triptych) which, involved hand coating an entire abandoned rectory in graphite pencil and projecting animations in selected windows of the home. In the museum’s main gallery space is a selection of works relating to the artists fascination with the seashore, Disappearing Act, Figure And Ground and Reoccurring Tide. On view are seventeen unique hand-drawn animation works accompanied by a selection of source drawings. The work involves an incredibly laborious process of on site filming, sound recording, photography, drawing and then editing hundreds of graphite pencil source drawings.
Shpungin often refers to some of her animation works as purposely failed animations, never successfully animating the inanimate subject born from memory or the metaphorically static world of photography. The works in the exhibition consider numerous dichotomies, both literally and figuratively, between light/darkness, hope/despair, failure/triumph, memory/forgetfulness, nature/humanity, breakage/repair, loss/longing, public/private and the tangible/metaphysical as components reliant on one another, and in an optimistic quest for empathy across identity lines in the face of uncertainty in our current precarious times. She was recently awarded the Pollock Krasner Foundation grant to help support her work.įor her solo exhibition Bright Light / Darkest Shadow at MOCA, Tucson, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson will display nearly ten years of hand-drawn animation works consisting of literally thousands of original source drawings shown in three distinct gallery spaces of the museum. I will for the first time in a decade be exhibiting my hand-drawn animation works and two newly created animations that take an extensive and experimental approach.”ĭiana Shpungin’s body of work re-imagines standard notions of drawing practice through painstakingly made hand-drawn animation. “If you are out west early next year I would love for you to visit my upcoming solo exhibition at MOCA Tucson. Diana Shpungin recently sent ART511 Magazine an invitation to her upcoming 2020 solo exhibition.
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