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January 16—February 20, 2020

Shana Moulton’s interdisciplinary works in video, performance, and installation blur the lines between autobiography and fiction. In Whispering Pines, the artist’s long-running series (titled after the mobile home retirement community where she grew up, just outside of Yosemite), the artist layers digital animation, collage-like installation and performance to explore the trials and anxieties of her alter ego, Cynthia. Poignant and funny, Moulton’s work implements everyday objects, symbols, body parts, and even medical devices into a kind of surreal spiritual framework that offers a wry critique of wellness culture and contemporary life.

Bio:

Shana Moulton grew up in Oakhurst, CA, and has gone on to show her work internationally: including at the Palais De Tokyo (Paris); Yerba BuenaÌýCenter for the Arts (San Francisco); Kunsthaus Glarus (Switzerland); Art in General (NewÌýYork); Fondazione Morra Greco (Naples); Galeria ArsenaÅ‚ (BiaÅ‚ystok), and Museum of ContemporaryÌýArt (MOCA) Cleveland. She has participated in group exhibitions at Migros MuseumÌýFür Gegenwartskunst (Zurich); Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg); Museu Nacional deÌýArte Contemporânea do Chiado (Lisbon); Oakland Museum of California; Institute of Contemporary Arts London; Guangdong Times Museum (Guangzhou); PerthÌýInstitute of Contemporary Arts; Göteborgs Konsthall (Göteborg); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, (Brussels). She has performed at The Museum of Modern Art; The New Museum of ContemporaryÌýArt; The Kitchen (New York); The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh); The SanÌýFrancisco Museum of Modern Art, and many others. Moulton's work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times,ÌýArtReview, Art in America, Flash Art, Artpress, Metropolis M, BOMB Magazine, andÌýFrieze among others. Her work is distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix and she is aÌýfeatured artist on Art21’s New York Close Up: Ìý

Shana Moulton is an Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara.

Exhibitions and programming at Art Space Gallery are organized by Elena Harvey Collins.

Student Gallery Assistants: Leslie Adams, Miriam Ouassou, Vicente Velazquez III, and Elianette Zepeda.

This exhibition is supported by Friends of the Arts (FOTA) at Â鶹´«Ã½.