Jamian Juliano-Villani’s Painting Compulsion
Rafael Salazar, Ava Wiland
Program presented as part of the program Diagonals — Program 2
What makes a painter paint? The Brooklyn studio of artist Jamian Juliano-Villani is crowded with a wildly varied collection of books, ranging from ’70s-era fashion to commercial illustration, from Scientific American-style photography to obscure European comic art. This vast image bank is the foundation for her mash-up creative process. Long attracted to cartoons, the artist borrows from illustration as a way to deflate painting’s historical pretensions and to speak in a more direct language.
What makes a painter paint? The Brooklyn studio of artist Jamian Juliano-Villani is crowded with a wildly varied collection of books, ranging from ’70s-era fashion to commercial illustration, from Scientific American-style photography to obscure European comic art. This vast image bank is the foundation for her mash-up creative process. Long attracted to cartoons, the artist borrows from illustration as a way to deflate painting’s historical pretensions and to speak in a more direct language.
Festival Internacional Filmes Sobre Art, Lisbon Portugal (2015)
Last update in March 2016
Last update in March 2016
| Director | Rafael Salazar, Ava Wiland |
| Script | Rafael Salazar, Ava Wiland |
| Production | Wesley Miller, Nick Ravich, ART21 |
| Participation | Jamian Juliano-Villani |
| Editing | Rafael Salazar, Ava Wiland |
| Artist | Jamian Juliano-Villani |
| Cinematography | Rafael Salazar, Ava Wiland |