Sarah Jane Lapp, still from hand-drawn animation Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist
(HDcamSR, 2009) India ink, gouache, and wax on paper, 10 x 12 inches

Lapp makes drawings, paintings, and films—the latter which, of late, have evolved as mostly hand-drawn animation and investigations of some interface between comic personae and religious imagination. Her work has been made possible by residencies and fellowships from Artist Trust, Artslink, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Alpert Award in the Arts, Ucross Foundation, Jerome Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study Center, and the Washington State Arts Commission. Exhibition venues include the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; British Film Institute; Kino Arsenal; the Film Society of Lincoln Center; the Jewish Museum; MadCat; Pacific Film Archive; PBS; SXSW; Tacoma Art Museum; the Smithsonian Institution; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Walker Art Center. Film awards: Black Maria Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Humboldt Film Festival, Judah L. Magnes Museum. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA in filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a Fulbright scholar at FAMU and apprenticed at the Studio Bratri v Triku in Prague. She frequently collaborates with virtuoso contrabassist Mark Dresser and their most recent animations include Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist, Chronicles of an Asthmatic Stripper, and Bedtime Story. Until its recent print demise she served as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's ‘op-artist,’ constructing visual essays around issues politically and perennially complicated. She is represented by Galerie Nauman and Galerie Altes Rathaus Musberg  in Germany as well as the Seattle Art Museum/Gallery.

Sarah Jane Lapp website

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