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Abigail Portner is a visual artist, designer, music video director and musician in the bands Rings and Hex Message and solo under the name Drawlings.〔The Fader Magazine #65, page 87〕 She lives and works in West Hollywood, California. ==Visual Art== Abby Portner's work is closely connected to her friends and especially to her brother David Portner's band Animal Collective. She started to make tour posters when they were still in High School together in Baltimore, Maryland. She later moved to New York City to attend Parsons School for Design, but continued to make record covers and still designs shirts, tour posters and merchandise for the band.〔() Abby Portner on Drawlings, Rings, and making art for Animal Collective. BBQChickenRobot.com, December 21st, 2008〕 For Animal Collective's album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, she contributed a music video for the song ''In the Flowers''. In the summer of 2010 she built a live set for two Animal Collective shows in Prospect Park in New York City that contained large scale paintings and sculptures of jellyfish, tiki men, moving sharks and shooting water. The work was handmade by Portner in small parts with the help of friends in a working space in Bushwick, New York City, and put together on stage.〔() Abigail Portner. Artist Advocacy Network, 2010〕 Besides drawing for Animal Collective, Portner worked on a wide range of visual art projects, including Tattoo designing and Cartoons. In the end of 2008 she designed skateboards for the Ohio-based brand Alien Workshop.〔 In mid-2010 Portner worked as a guest artist for the animated series ''The Velvet Mouse Show''.〔() The Velvet Mouse Show. Post on Abby Portner's Blog, September 20th, 2010〕 In early 2010, The Fader Magazine featured Portner in the 65th issue with some artwork and a portrait. In addition, an interview and a slideshow with the artist's work was posted on the magazine's website.〔() Slideshow: Abigail Portner's Insider/Outsider Art. The Fader, January 19th, 2010〕 According to herself, the inspiration for her imagery comes from sources like old photos of her childhood, children's magazines and Disney World. She points out the motif of play and playfulness as the main theme of her work. Accordingly, recurrent themes in her drawings are animals, masked children, Christmas and Halloween. In addition to this "childlike" approach Portner adds a dark, melancholic and often eerie undertone to her figures: In 2014, she directed music video for "If You Were Still Around" song by John Cale. 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「Abby Portner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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