Nationality American Name Shana Moulton | Role Artist | |
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Notable work Whispering Pines, The Mountain Where Everything is Upside Down Books The Blazing Fireplace of Guardianship Movies Restless Leg Saga, The Undiscovered Drawer, Green Portal 43, The Sentimental Futurist Profiles | ||
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Shana Moulton is a media artist who explores contemporary anxieties through her filmic alter ego, Cynthia. Based in New York City, Shana uses colorful psychedelic performance to describe pathetic situations with humorous surrealism.
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- Shana moulton nick hallett stage an opera art21 new york close up
- Whispering pines 3 by shana moulton
- Background and education
- Whispering Pines
- Solo
- References
Whispering pines 3 by shana moulton
Background and education
Born in Oakhurst, California, Shana Moulton attended the University of California, Berkeley and continued to receive a MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. She has also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and De Ateliers in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Moulton has been an artist in resident at Harvestworks, New York City (2008) and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2011), and she has also received fellowships and grants from the Experimental Television Center (2009), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2009), and Harvestworks (2010). She currently works in Brooklyn, New York.
Whispering Pines
The 10-part video series, Whispering Pines follows the protagonist's search for perfect health and peace through consumer objects. Cynthia, Moulton's intimately autobiographical, surreal, video alter-ego, interacts with appropriated new-age marginalia, prescription drugs, and beauty products assembled into a whimsical scene of feminine anxiety. Moulton explains that she is not required to 'get into character' for Cynthia; Cynthia is always there. Moulton says of her alter-ego, "It's me in the bathroom; it's me worried about aging; it's me looking at a beauty magazine... We share a brain. I don't even think of her as a character. It's just me." Through Moulton's narrative of self-discovery, Cynthia gains relief from the social pressures of her domestic products by using them in non-prescribed ways.
Solo
