Artists' Television Access

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  • Michelle Brandemuehl: Nothing Left to Break

    My work is less about recording what I see around me and more about exploring what I cannot see. I make art to articulate through the visual what we struggle to articulate through language; to reflect what lies beneath the rational mind.

    The series I created titled Nothing Left to Break, is based on the theme of impermanence. The idea is that everything is already broken from the start, and that there is freedom in letting go and accepting it as it is, broken. Through work like this, I am exploring the ways in which we connect to this freedom. I often use gravity as a theme, thinking about how gravity grounds us in the physical realm, but wondering what grounds us metaphysically. I believe the external noise of modern culture disconnects us from our internal quiet which in turn distracts us from exploring these questions. My hope is to create work that allows the viewer to tap into this quiet.

    My process of creating art reflects this. Choosing a wood panel with lines and imperfections that speak to me, creating order by limiting
    color and shape, and attempting to manipulate gravity compositionally in a way that feels rhythmic and melodic. I am drawn to transparency in the paint and materials because of its ability to reveal what is underneath, mirroring themes I am exploring. Through this process of limiting color and opaqueness, I am allowing the empty to take importance; defining through absence rather than presence – permitting the quiet to be heard.

    BIO

    Michelle Brandemuehl is a San Francisco based artist. She grew up in Wisconsin where she received her B.A. from University of
    Wisconsin-Madison. After working as a graphic designer for fifteen years, in 2013 she changed her focus to pursue art on a more full time basis; directing her time and energy towards a rigorous studio practice.

  • Films by Zach Iannazzi and Margaret Rorison

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    Zach Iannazzi and Margaret Rorison In Person

    The film/video work of Margaret Rorison—co-founder and curator of Baltimore’s Sight Unseen screening series—is described as “an impressionistic exploration into the visceral nature of memory and experience.” A featured artist in CROSSROADS 2014 and ’15, Rorison appears in person for the first time visits San Francisco to present a selection of these sophisticated and hypnotic works including the celestial elegy The Waiting Sands; PULL/DRIFT, “an immersive experiment in movement, rhythm, and ritual” made in collaboration with the Effervescent Dance Collective; vindmøller, a dense hand-wrought study of weather and Danish wind power; and her latest: One Document for Hope. Rorison is paired tonight with Zach Iannazzi who will present examples of his masterful hand-made cinema including California Picture Book, a drifting found footage compendium of Nor Cal seasons past; Preservation Through Dissemination, a graphic and abstract imagining of a visionary cinema inventor; and II, an foreboding double-projected home movie collage reflecting on accidental impressionism, mid-century male bonding rituals and the hubris of hunting culture.

  • Mike Kuchar: Soul Searching Series & more

    mike kucharATA is proud to present an evening with avant-garde underground filmmaker Mike Kuchar (in person), exploring through the Soul Searching Series and other works.

    The vibrant, poetic and wild works of Mike Kuchar have inspired generations of filmmakers and artists with their wickedly perverse parodies of pop-culture and abundant creativity. From early 8 mm films made with his twin brother George Kuchar featuring friends from their Bronx neighbourhood to the underground sci-fi extravaganza Sins of the Fleshapoids 1965, his films take the language of Hollywood and make it so ‘overblown it’s glorious’. In the 1990s Mike Kuchar embraced video with the same transformative passion that he brought to his early 8 mm films, and created a vast body of work ranging from delirious teleplays to recent digital fantasies, displaying a unique creative sensibility. Relishing the possibilities of the most minuscule budgets his films are radiant and lurid in equal measure, celebrating human creativity with an undiminished passion and humour for over 50 years.