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Chris Twomey born 1954, is an award winning American female multi-media artist and filmmaker. Her work focuses on her life and experience as a springboard for meditations on the human condition where origins and identity in relationship to the individual in society are explored through scientific, psychological, and conceptual art themes. Chris Twomey works in series using a variety of mediums – film, photography, painting, sculpture, digital media, sound, and installation - which can incorporate one or all these elements. ==Biography== Twomey’s family moved around the country frequently: Chicago, IL, Nyack, NJ, Teaneck, NJ, Greenville, SC, Hixon TN, Rochester NY, before settling in Wyckoff NJ. Twomey attended Reed College in Portland OR, and eventually graduated with honors from Ramapo College in NJ with a BA in Sculpture in 1976. She attended Pratt Institute and obtained an MFA degree in 1979. In 1976, after receiving her bachelor’s degree, Twomey originated an art performance group called “Performance People,” inspired by other multi-media, conceptual artists like Meredith Monk, Vito Acconci, and Laurie Anderson. Twomey used film-making techniques to document the performances, becoming a filmmaker in the process. Later, immersion in art films contributed to a sensibility where subject matter, sound, time-based mediums and montage-like visuals were consistently utilized. This resulted in the creation of many short super-8 films in which Twomey used herself, as well as singing and composing many of the soundtracks.〔 In a review of Twomey's retrospective exhibition at the Ramapo College Art Galleries, Daniel Rothbart wrote: "Get Ahead, a film from this series, plays on themes of transformation, gender-bending identity, sexual aggression, patriotism and other themes. Twomey is the subject throughout, her head framed tightly by the camera, smiling, singing sweetly and combing her hair (while "Get Ahead" is chanted in a layered audio track composed and sung by Twomey)." Residencies at the Experimental TV Center and a grant from the Media Bureau at the Kitchen Center for Video and Film fueled Twomey's interest in filmmaking possibilities. "In the 1970s, Twomey was deeply involved with filmmaking, creating works that reflect the experimental ethos of period. Works like Get Ahead, What’s the Point, Feed Us and Fun and Games suggest a dialogue with figures like John Cage, Robert Wilson, Dick Higgens, Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage and Maya Deren. These short films adopt surrealist juxtaposition, overlays, and animation techniques to reflect the some of the contradictions of female experience." —Eleanor Heartney Graduating from Pratt Institute in 1979 with an MFA, majoring in ''New Forms'', as well as winning a 1978 Ford Foundation Grant for her multi-layered portapak video entitled ''Unmoved'', Twomey later concentrated on exploring narrative filmmaking. She completed shorts “Phenelzine Sulfate” with support from the Hy Goldman Fund 1979, and ''One Way'', which won a 1980 Creative Artists Public Service Grant sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts and was exhibited at Museum of Modern Art. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chris Twomey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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