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Sat, Sep 13, 2008
2:00 PM

Lobby Gallery (directions)

Exhibition Walk-Through with Altoids Award Winner Michael Stickrod

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Discussions, Film / Video

Michael Stickrod addresses the psychology of human ties by cutting to the center of his familial circle. He uses scanned photographs and found audio to create nearly abstract sequences embedded between incising confessions and footage of his family. The videos on view take his mother and father as his subject matter, painting a landscape of Middle America that oscillates between bleak and hopeful. Stickrod was born in 1978 in Columbus, Ohio, and currently lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. On September 13 he will discuss his work in the Altoids Award exhibition.

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The 2008 Altoids Award is made possible by Altoids, The Curiously Strong Mints.

Additional support is provided by the Toby Devan Lewis Emerging Artists Exhibitions Fund.

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Michael Stickrod

Inspired by the Free Cinema movement, Michael Stickrod creates films that compose an ever-expanding family album. Stickrod layers footage of his relatives with homemade soundtracks, found audio, and photographed and scanned objects to make videos that paint an unsettling portrait of middle America. At times candid and sincere, other times manipulative and voyeuristic, Stickrod’s films are suspended somewhere between confessional home videos and anthropological field research. Stickrod was born in 1978 in Columbus, Ohio, and currently lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut.