Matt McCormick, 34-year-old Portland artist, filmmaker, photographer and musician, will show a collection of recent short works, including his newest, “Light Tiger Eye,” Monday at the Auburn Public Theater.
McCormick, an acclaimed artist and filmmaker whose success spans both the art and independent film worlds, is touring New York state, showing and talking about his films.
The 80-minute show lineup includes regional premieres of “The Problem with Machines that Communicate” (2008, 13 minutes) and clips from his on-going installation project, “Future So Bright.” His films blur genre distinctions and are abstract observations of contemporary culture.
Rounding out the program are music videos McCormick directed for The Shins and Sleater-Kinney, as well as miscellaneous tidbits like PSAs made for MTV and a few surprises.
“Light Tiger Eye,” an experimental comedy, features James Mercer (Shins) and Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney) in an absurd test of wit and color identification. By poking fun at eccentric designer paint names, it creates an awkward, undefined situation where two colleagues test each other's memorization and identification skills.
“Future So Bright” maps abandoned spaces in the American West, exposing the disposable mentality of expansion and creating a catalog of forgotten spaces and abandoned, quickly disappearing relics .
“American Nutria” spotlights capitalism's penchant for creating its own disasters, here through an imported species.
“The Subconscious Art of Grafitti Removal” shows how destroying one art form unwittingly creates another in the process. It was named in “Top 10/Best of 2002” lists in The Village Voice and Art Forum magazine.
His installation piece “Ride a Wave to Tomorrow's Sunset” reflects on society's “synthetic meditation” needs.
McCormick has shown work worldwide in film festivals, at Art Basil, The Moscow Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art and microcinemas on MTV and the Sundance Channel. He collaborated on projects with Miranda July, James Mercer, Patton Oswalt and Calvin Johnson.
Three films screened at the Sundance Film Festival and his collection of awards include Best Short Film at the San Francisco International Film Fest, Best Experimental Film at the New York Underground Film Fest and Best Short at the Ann Arbor Film Fest.
His collection of music and sound recordings, “Very Stereo,” was released in 2007 by Marriage Records, and his photography and installation work is represented by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery.
McCormick will be present at the Auburn Public Theater for a question and answer session at the showing.
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center presents this program along with the theater with funds from the Experimental Television Center of the New York State Council for the Arts.
Kathleen Barran
253-5311 ext. 238
kathleen.barran@lee.net
The 80-minute show lineup includes regional premieres of “The Problem with Machines that Communicate” (2008, 13 minutes) and clips from his on-going installation project, “Future So Bright.” His films blur genre distinctions and are abstract observations of contemporary culture.
Rounding out the program are music videos McCormick directed for The Shins and Sleater-Kinney, as well as miscellaneous tidbits like PSAs made for MTV and a few surprises.
“Light Tiger Eye,” an experimental comedy, features James Mercer (Shins) and Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney) in an absurd test of wit and color identification. By poking fun at eccentric designer paint names, it creates an awkward, undefined situation where two colleagues test each other's memorization and identification skills.
“Future So Bright” maps abandoned spaces in the American West, exposing the disposable mentality of expansion and creating a catalog of forgotten spaces and abandoned, quickly disappearing relics .
“American Nutria” spotlights capitalism's penchant for creating its own disasters, here through an imported species.
“The Subconscious Art of Grafitti Removal” shows how destroying one art form unwittingly creates another in the process. It was named in “Top 10/Best of 2002” lists in The Village Voice and Art Forum magazine.
His installation piece “Ride a Wave to Tomorrow's Sunset” reflects on society's “synthetic meditation” needs.
McCormick has shown work worldwide in film festivals, at Art Basil, The Moscow Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art and microcinemas on MTV and the Sundance Channel. He collaborated on projects with Miranda July, James Mercer, Patton Oswalt and Calvin Johnson.
Three films screened at the Sundance Film Festival and his collection of awards include Best Short Film at the San Francisco International Film Fest, Best Experimental Film at the New York Underground Film Fest and Best Short at the Ann Arbor Film Fest.
His collection of music and sound recordings, “Very Stereo,” was released in 2007 by Marriage Records, and his photography and installation work is represented by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery.
McCormick will be present at the Auburn Public Theater for a question and answer session at the showing.
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center presents this program along with the theater with funds from the Experimental Television Center of the New York State Council for the Arts.
Kathleen Barran
253-5311 ext. 238
kathleen.barran@lee.net
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