Lilli Carré Explained

Lilli Carré
Birth Place:Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Field:Experimental animation, animation, cartoons, commercial illustration, printmaking, artists' books, painting, sculpture, textiles
Training:Northwestern University (MFA 2016)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 2006)

Lilli Carré (born 1983) is an American interdisciplinary artist currently based in Los Angeles, working in experimental animation, ceramics, print, and textile.[1] She is co-director of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation and is represented by contemporary art gallery Western Exhibitions.[2] She currently teaches in the Experimental Animation department at the California Institute of the Arts[3]

Early life and education

Carré was born and grew up in Los Angeles.[4] Her mother is a graphic designer and her father, who died when Carré was a teenager, was a designer and forensic animator.[5] She has said that a "major activity throughout my childhood was when my parents would roll out a big sheet of butcher paper on the apartment floor, and my sister and I would amuse ourselves quietly for hours by drawing images and stories all over it".[6] Carré transferred to an arts high school in her senior year and then left Los Angeles, initially to study sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and become a sound artist, but she became interested in creative writing, film, and printmaking.[7] While studying she also worked in the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection. As part of her creative writing classes she read various short story writers and cites Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar as having inspired her very much. She received her BFA from SAIC in 2006 and settled in Chicago where she currently lives and works.[8] Carré worked part-time at the Facets Multi-Media film library for several years, an experience she has said influenced her filmmaking.

Experimental animation

Carré has created numerous experimental animation films and looping videos using hand drawn animation, paper cut-out, and CG animation. Her films have shown in festivals throughout the US and abroad, including the Sundance Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Annecy, 25FPS, the European Media Arts Festival, New Chitose Animation Festival, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.[9] [10] [11]

She has been co-director of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation since 2010. The Festival is a curated screening series focusing on experimental animation. Festival programs showcase outstanding experimental animation of all sorts, and include classic films and contemporary works.[12] Notable festival guests include, David Oreilly, Martin Arnold, Takeshi Murata, Naoyuki Tsuji, Janie Geiser, and Barry Doupé.

She currently teaches in the Experimental Animation department at the California Institute of the Arts.[13]

Drawing and sculpture

Carré has been represented by Chicago contemporary art gallery Western Exhibitions since 2012.[14] Solo exhibitions of her drawing, animation, and sculpture have shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Western Exhibitions, and the Columbus Museum of Art.[15] She was an artist in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in 2020.[16]

She participated in the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art's Ten x Ten 2013, which "investigates the relationship between color and sound...exploring the underlying concepts of synesthesia".[17] In 2013, she produced an "entirely new body of work in animation, sculpture, and drawing" for her first solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.[18]

Comics

Carré has created comics and illustrations for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Best American Comics, and published several books of comics with Fantagraphics.[19]

Her books of comics include Tippy and the Night Parade (2014), Heads or Tails (2012), Nine Ways to Disappear (2009), The Lagoon (2008),[20] and Tales of Woodsman Pete (2006). An excerpt from The Lagoon was chosen to be included in The Best American Comics 2010 [21] and "The Carnival" was nominated for Outstanding Story at the 2009 Ignatz Awards.[22] Carré's film How She Slept at Night screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.[23]

She provided the illustrations in Andrew Sean Greer's 2017 novel Less,[24] which received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[25]

Films

Books

Anthologies

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carré . Lilli . 2023 . lillicarre.com/about . January 27, 2023 . Lilli Carré . en.
  2. Web site: Western Exhibitions . 2023 . Lilli Carré, Western Exhibitions . January 27, 2023 . westernexhibitions.com.
  3. Web site: CalArts Experimental Animation Faculty . January 27, 2023 . Lilli Carré . en.
  4. Web site: Pinning down Chicago artist Lilli Carre. Chicago Tribune. Christopher Borrelli. December 10, 2012.
  5. Web site: Lilli Carré Interview . Arts Alive . Loyola University Chicago . 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140318105314/http://blogs.luc.edu/artsalive/portfolio/lilli-carre-interview/ . March 18, 2014 .
  6. Web site: Artist interview: Lilli Carré. Pikaland. Melanie Maddison. September 10, 2010.
  7. Web site: A Short Interview With Lilli Carré. The Comics Reporter. Tom Spurgeon. August 2, 2009.
  8. Web site: MCA Screen Lilli Carré, Cycles & Marks . Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago . 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140316165716/http://www2.mcachicago.org/event/mca-screen-lilli-carre/ . March 16, 2014 .
  9. Web site: Sundance Film Festival . 2013 . How She Slept at Night – sundance.org . January 27, 2023 . en-US.
  10. Web site: International Film Festival Rotterdam . Lilli Carré – IFFR . January 27, 2023 . iffr.com.
  11. Web site: 25FPS Film Festival . 2023 . Lilli Carré, Tap Water – 25 FPS . January 27, 2023 . www.25fps.hr.
  12. Web site: Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation . 2023 . About Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation . January 27, 2023 . Eyeworks . en.
  13. Web site: CalArts School of Film/Video . Experimental Animation Faculty – Lilli Carré . January 27, 2023 . CalArts School of Film/Video . en-US.
  14. Web site: Western Exhibitions . 2023 . Western Exhibitions – Lilli Carré . January 27, 2023 . westernexhibitions.com.
  15. Web site: Western Exhibitions . Recent Exhibitions – Lilli Carré . January 27, 2023 . westernexhibitions.com.
  16. Web site: Bemis Center for Contemporary Art . 2023 . Bemis Center – Lilli Carré . January 27, 2023 . www.bemiscenter.org . en-US.
  17. Web site: 2013 . TEN X TEN 2013 . Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art.
  18. Web site: December 2013 . BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Lilli Carré . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140214044042/http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/now/2013/338 . February 14, 2014 . Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
  19. Web site: Fantagraphics . 2023 . Lilli Carré Books . January 27, 2023 . Fantagraphics . en.
  20. Web site: Theater Guide to Chicago's Musicals & Plays . January 27, 2023 . Time Out Chicago . en-US.
  21. Neil Gaiman, ed., The Best American Comics 2010, Houghton Mifflin (2010), pg.318,
  22. Web site: American TV Comparing Satellite Internet and Satellite TV . January 27, 2023 . www.americantv.com.
  23. "How She Slept at Night," http://history.sundance.org/films/3857, retrieved on June 18, 2011
  24. Andrew Sean Greer. Andrew Sean Greer. Enrico Rotelli. Andrew Sean Greer "Art Is Transforming". Klat Magazine. October 23, 2017. November 13, 2022.
  25. Web site: Less, by Andrew Sean Greer (Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company) . The Pulitzer Prizes . August 6, 2018.
  26. Web site: Corbett vs Dempsey . 2023 . Lilli Carré – Stone Fruit . January 27, 2023 . corbettvsdempsey.com . en.
  27. Web site: International Film Festival Rotterdam . 2023 . Glazing – IFFR . January 27, 2023 . iffr.com.
  28. Web site: International Film Festival Rotterdam . 2023 . Private Properties – IFFR . January 27, 2023 . iffr.com.
  29. Web site: New Chitose Airport Festival . August 25, 2018 . Huskies . January 27, 2023 . 新千歳空港国際アニメーション映画祭2018 . ja.
  30. Web site: 25FPS Film Festival . Tap Water – 25 FPS . January 27, 2023 . www.25fps.hr.
  31. Web site: Western Exhibitions . Jill – Western Exhibitions . January 27, 2023 . westernexhibitions.com.
  32. Web site: LILLI CARRÉ – FILMS . Lilli Carré.

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