New Installation: Joel Shapiro

Our latest film is the third in a series of documentaries for Rice University Art Gallery. New Installation follows famed sculpture Joel Shapiro as he creates a site-specific installation at Rice Gallery in Houston, Texas. We spent time capturing live scenes with Joel as he showed us the model for the installation and talked to the opening night crowd. It was an interesting challenge to weave together a variety of scenes with natural live sound. We hope you enjoy the film!

Joel Shapiro
New Installation
February 2 – March 18 2012
Rice University Art Gallery
6100 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77005

-M&A

Pause / Flow

Pause / Flow is our third short documentary film in a series for Southwest School of Art. The film introduces you to President of the School and Studio Artist Paula Owen and discusses how she balances her separate identities. We followed Paula visiting with students and faculty, during meetings in her office at the School, and working on her paintings in her home studio.

The title is shared with that of a recent exhibition of Paula’s work, but also references Paula’s duality as an Artist and Administrator. It was really wonderful to work with Paula on this film, she is a great supporter of our work and an incredible Artist and Leader in our community.
View more image on our Flickr.

-M&A

Elderly Animals: Photographs by Isa Leshko

Our latest short documentary film following Photographer Isa Leshko has been receiving an incredible amount of attention since it was released at the end of November. With nearly 80 thousand views to date, it’s been featured on The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR Picture Show, My Modern Met and the Vimeo HD Channel. Learn more about Isa online at www.IsaLeshko.com.

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Salon of Beauty

Stills from our new short documentary Salon of Beauty

Rice University Art Gallery’s current exhibition Salon of Beauty features the beautiful handmade work of Los Angeles based Artist Ana Serrano. The film unveils the process required to bring Ana’s previously small scale sculptures to nearly life size inside of Rice Gallery. The completed exhibition is a colorful landscape inspired by South L.A. neighborhoods where small and often overlooked details are playfully mixed together. Visit www.AnaSerrano.com. Learn more about the exhibition at www.RiceGallery.org.

Salon of Beauty: Behind the Scenes

This past October we traveled to Houston, Texas to continue filming on our second project with Rice University Art Gallery. We had visited with Artist Ana Serrano in September for an interview and filming of the the process behind her exhibition Salon of Beauty. When we returned in October we found a beautifully elaborate nearly life-size neighborhood inside of Rice Gallery. The colorful space made for a very exciting day of filming. We spent the afternoon capturing all the incredible details found throughout the exhibition, here are some behind of scenes of our film shoot:

Stay tuned for the completed film! Until then, visit www.AnaSerrano.com and learn more about the exhibition at www.RiceGallery.org.

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Wonder Object: Behind the scenes

We are about to complete filming on our second short documentary film following Gary Schott, artist and faculty at Southwest School of Art. The first film entitled To Come Home, follows artist Ryan Takaba. We will be working with SSA on a total of six short films featuring the work of their talented faculty.

Gary was kind enough to lend us a few of his pieces so we could take our time filming them for the documentary. Mark spent an afternoon testing lighting and backdrops. It had been a while since we’d done set-up shoots, so it was good practice.

This was filmed in our home Studio where our lovely cat Lola dwells. She was really interested in the Eskimo Kisser, particularly the colorful wool nose. She got a quick Eskimo Kiss/Sniff in before she found something else to investigate.

These last two images were taken by Mark during filming Eskimo Kisser #2. We were hoping to feature the beautiful color and detail in the work. Learn more about Gary’s work on his portfolio website. Update: Watch the film.

-M&A

p.s. The title Wonder Object comes from Gary’s blog of the same name. Read it here.