Maureen selwood biography
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Press/Critical Writing
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Werther by Massenet, Maureen Selwood worked with video designer Wendall Harrington to create opening animation design for opera directed by Richard Eyre. CalArts Blog, Nov. 2014.
Bodymania Films at Tate Modern
29 Cross Examinations, Theater work written and directed by Maureen Selwood at Automata in Chinatown; Selwood brings about a new perspective. CalArts, Blog, Nov. 15th, 2015.
Maureen Selwood Wikipedia page
The World of Sensual Animation, Where Cartoons Are Sexier Than Real Life, by Priscilla Frank, Huffington Post, Culture and Arts
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims,film in performance Whitney Museum of Art.
Power, feminism and giant, knitted balaclavas: artist Maureen Selwood’s Pussy Riot tribute by Carolina Miranda
Rosamund Felsen Gallery Maureen Selwood
COLA\20 – City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
Maureen Selwood’s The 100 best animated movies: animators and filmmakers, Q to Z
Parka Blogs Book Review Animation Sketchbooks by Laura Heit
Dreams of a Life An Evening with Mauree
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Maureen Selwood
Irish-born Dweller filmmaker limit visual artist
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Early taste and education
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Biography
Maureen Selwood is a filmmaker artist who works with visual art, digital media, installation, and performance. A pioneer in the field of independent experimental animation, Selwood has both charted new territory for women artists, and reframed conventional notions of women as objects of desire in art history. Rooted aesthetically in film noir, dada and surrealism her work explores carnivals, festivals, and religious rites as celebrations and showcases for the imaginary.
After graduating with her MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Selwood found herself at the center of a burgeoning new scene in independent animation, which aligned itself more with the art world than with the traditional animation establishments of the time. Selwood produced such ground breaking films as: Odalisque, The Rug, This Is Just To Say and Pearls. Critics celebrated Selwood's ingenuity and artistic elegance. After NY Selwood moved to Los Angeles where Jules Engel invited her to teach at California Institute of the Arts in the Experimental Animation Program. Shaped by influences she experienced there, she produced: Flying Circus: An Imagined Memoir; Hail Mary; Mistaken Identity; Drawing Lessons; and A Modern Convenience.
Selwood was a recipient of the prestigious Rome Prize and while