Joanna Priestley
Explores the mythopoeic realm through mandalas and dream images that hint at hidden trauma.
Walt Disney said “We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.” Outside of Walt himself there are few people who have brought together and united more animators in the history of the genre than Craig "Spike" Decker and Mike Gribble, known to all as Spike & Mike. They created an animation festival that helped launch the careers of John Lasseter, Peter Lord, Will Vinton, Bill Plympton and Mike Judge to name just a few. Their Spike & Mike festival had an enormous impact on animation that was felt the world over. The festival was known as much for the breakthrough animation it presented as the outrageous antics of the founders.
A dense multiverse of images and shifting focal points that explore the tension between two dimensional patterns both familiar and alien. Conventional icons are deconstructed, creating shapes that spark a sense of connection and shared history, while scenes transmogrify from rhythmic explosions to sublime trance-inducing patterns.
Still life silhouettes collide with abstract shapes and complex, interlocking patterns. Reimagining the commonplace objects of a classical painting genre with experimental animation.
Delicate patterns inspired by North American wrapping papers from the 1960’s and French and English wallpapers from the early 1900s.
A witty commentary on our over-reliance on spell check that plays up phonetics with hilarious results.
A roller coaster ride through the brain fog, flashes, mood swings, depression, pimples and rage of one of life's great transitions.
An acronym for Distant Early Warning Line, Dew Line refers to the array of radar stations built in the Arctic during the Cold War, and to the elegant shapes created by condensation. This animated tapestry of biomorphic forms elegantly dances through the life cycles of cells while hinting at the loss of botanical diversity.
Layers of animation featuring more than 600 sculptures, 200 glass pieces and 2200 drawings evoke an inspiring diving exploration in a freshwater lake in Yucatan.
Explores the magic of objects and transformation. Inspired by the boxes of Joseph Cornell, who lived on Utopia Parkway (Queens, NY) nearly all of his life.
A satire of the pitfalls of romance, from marriage, childbirth and upward mobility to the disintegration of a relationship.
Based on an Ojibwa Native American story about coyote, the trickster, published by Barry Lopez.
The Rubber Stamp Film was hand stamped on over 5000 index cards. Color was added with water color and felt pen.
