Lisa Barcy
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Lisa Barcy STATEMENT When I was a kid, I was often told that I was an accident waiting to happen; so perhaps it’s fitting that my work as both an animator and now collage artist were both quite accidental. A few years ago, I came across a shoebox filled with paper dolls, dating back to about 1918. As I was making animation puppets out of the dolls, I became fascinated by the paper silhouettes that remained, forming ghostly and evocative images. An explosion of collaged work soon followed. Stop-motion animation takes an incredibly long time, so creating the collaged pieces serves not just as a respite from animating, but as a means of developing non-linear narratives. They are inextricably linked; one can’t exist without the other. Since then I’ve continued to find inspiration in disgarded images, fragments of personal history deemed worthy of saving in a box, but destined to be forgotten in an attic. Often they come from existing ephemera, but sometimes they are the remnants I’ve made myself from cutting out said images. Whatever the source, the notion that something is missing triggers experimentation. There is a quote from a William Kentridge animation regarding the main character’s lost love, “Her absence filled the world.”, and that phrase pops into my head frequently. When I’m making work, I think about is not just what is there, but what is deliberately absent. Fill in the blank. Or don’t. BIO Lisa Barcy makes animated films, collages, artist books, and sculptural oddities. Her animated work has appeared in numerous film festivals both in the U.S. and abroad. She is relatively new to showing her collage work and currently working on getting it out there. She teaches at DePaul University in Chicago. More of her work can be seen on Vimeo at vimeo.com/lisabarcy She promises to get a proper website as soon as she figures out how to do it. ARTIST CONTACT [click to email] IMAGES
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