MFA Sculpture, Room 140D
“Morph Spell” (chant), 4 ft x 6 ft x 12 ft, 20 minute performance, Garment rack, paracord, poncho, megaphone, brooms, tree limbs found within a 3 block radius of Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Photo Credit: Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter
Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson is preoccupied with alienation and the paradox of existing separately, together. They use the traditional animation process of inbetweening to reveal relationships among isolated forms, resulting insounds, sculptures, and collective performances.
Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson
Gwyneth was raised in Appalachian Maryland downstream from a prison. After receiving a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, they trained in Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening program, organized with the Chicago abolitionist collective Make Yourself Useful, and worked as a teaching artist to Chicago Public School students. They've presented work nationally and abroad, including at Roman Susan, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, the Chicago Cultural Center, Roots & Culture, and the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago; MoMA PS1 Print Shop in New York;Peephole Cinema in San Francisco; St. Charles Projects in Baltimore; and the Freies Museum in Berlin. Their projects have been written about in the AMA Journal of Ethics and Teen Vogue, and they've been an artist-in-residence at the Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago), the Institute for Electronic Arts (New York), Utopiana (Switzerland), and FRISE (Germany), among others.