A
sparkling crowd of art collectors and film enthusiasts flocked to the Maya
Stendhal Gallery last Wednesday night for the closing reception
of Jeff Scher's critically acclaimed show "Milk
of Amnesia." The exhibition included five of Scher's animated
films, along with a sneak preview of his work in progress, "You
Won't Remember This," an exquisite look at moments in a
child's life.
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Still
of Susan Shin's Motion Portrait
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While Scher's
films shimmered on two screens, guests chatted over cocktails
about the latest in avant-garde art and film. In the main exhibition
area, hundreds of hand-painted frames form Scher's animations were
on view, revealing the process of montage and carefully observed
motion
that goes into his films. Scher is now working on a couple of commissions
in motion portraiture, a brand new concept in the tradition of Picasso,
Sargent, and Warhol that was recently written
up in The New Yorker.
Manhattan attorney Susan Shin,
who was Scher's first motion-portrait subject was on hand, along with Rebecca
Cascade, who will be Scher's next subject. Cascade, a writer,
plans to document her experience being filmed and painted by Jeff Scher.
Also present were Martin Kace and Bella Chagall,
Michael Brockman, Martin Davis, and Professor Amanullah
Haiderzad, who is Afghani president Hamid Karzai's
advisor on Art and Culture. The evening was also the New York debut
of Prague-based painter Dita Stepanova, whose large
canvasses have already garnered the interest of several New York collectors. |
