Part 1: Virtual Artist Talk
Welcome
Hello! I’ve created this resource as the Community Benefit project for my 2019 LCC (Local Cultural Council) Fellowship / Visual Art Grant from the Somerville Arts Council and Mass Cultural Council.
Huge thanks to SAC + MCC for the support. And congrats to all other awardees!
I hope my tips and insights below will provide you with the confidence to embrace the digital art of glitching (what’s glitching? much more on this to come), and the inspiration to stretch your creative legs.
The Artist
I’m Allison Tanenhaus, a digital abstract glitch artist, copywriter, and cat person (shout-out to Thoughtful Paws, my local cat-sitting employer) based in Somerville, MA.
My visual art trajectory began in earnest in 2013, when—driven by my extracurricular pastime as a comedy writer on Twitter—I began creating and posting typographic and cat-themed street art, in the form of flyers, cards, stickers, magnets, and conceptual installations.
You may know me (or my cats) from my earliest street art and public art installations here in Somerville and the Greater Boston Area:
Way before then, I was lucky enough to have a foray in video art, thanks to college courses with independent video artist/filmmaker Elisabeth Subrin and animator Lorelei Pepi.
I created these experimental shorts in their classes back in 2004 + 2005, marking the start of my video explorations:
In the years since, I dove headlong into digital abstract art and taught myself new techniques along the way.
Here are some of the results:
“Crossing Crystals,” Bulfinch Crossing
Building Wrap, Boston, MA (November 2019)
“Art in the Age of the Internet,” The ICA Store, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Custom Merch, Boston, MA (February 2018)
“GlitchKraft: Allison Tanenhaus + Friends,” Emerson Contemporary
Gallery Exhibition, Boston, MA (September 2019)
”W-ATT,” Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
Art on the Marquee Video Wall, Boston, MA (December 2019)
Guest Suite Art, Hotel Studio Allston
Wallpaper and Prints, Allston, MA (September 2018)
“For The Birds,” Aeronaut Brewing Co. in support of Mass Audubon Society
Limited Edition Can Art, Somerville, MA (September 2019)
The Art Form
Learn more about glitch art (and try your hand at it) in Part 2: Workshop!
