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Lilli Carré

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Lilli Carré
Carré at the Alternative Press Expo in 2018
Born1983 (age 40–41)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
EducationNorthwestern University (MFA 2016)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 2006)
Known forExperimental animation, animation, cartoons, commercial illustration, printmaking, artists' books, painting, sculpture, textiles
Websitelillicarre.com

Lilli Carré (born 1983) is an American interdisciplinary artist currently based in Los Angeles, working in experimental animation, ceramics, print, and textile.[1] She is co-director of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation and is represented by contemporary art gallery Western Exhibitions.[2] She currently teaches in the Experimental Animation department at the California Institute of the Arts[3]

Early life and education

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Carré was born and grew up in Los Angeles.[4] Her mother is a graphic designer and her father, who died when Carré was a teenager, was a designer and forensic animator.[4][5] She has said that a "major activity throughout my childhood was when my parents would roll out a big sheet of butcher paper on the apartment floor, and my sister and I would amuse ourselves quietly for hours by drawing images and stories all over it".[6] Carré transferred to an arts high school in her senior year and then left Los Angeles, initially to study sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and become a sound artist, but she became interested in creative writing, film, and printmaking.[4][5][7] While studying she also worked in the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection.[7] As part of her creative writing classes she read various short story writers and cites Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar as having inspired her very much.[7] She received her BFA from SAIC in 2006 and settled in Chicago where she currently lives and works.[8] Carré worked part-time at the Facets Multi-Media film library for several years, an experience she has said influenced her filmmaking.[4]

Experimental animation

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Carré has created numerous experimental animation films and looping videos using hand drawn animation, paper cut-out, and CG animation. Her films have shown in festivals throughout the US and abroad, including the Sundance Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Annecy, 25FPS, the European Media Arts Festival, New Chitose Animation Festival, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.[9][10][11]

She has been co-director of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation since 2010. The Festival is a curated screening series focusing on experimental animation. Festival programs showcase outstanding experimental animation of all sorts, and include classic films and contemporary works.[12] Notable festival guests include, David Oreilly, Martin Arnold, Takeshi Murata, Naoyuki Tsuji, Janie Geiser, and Barry Doupé.

She currently teaches in the Experimental Animation department at the California Institute of the Arts.[13]

Drawing and sculpture

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Carré has been represented by Chicago contemporary art gallery Western Exhibitions since 2012.[14] Solo exhibitions of her drawing, animation, and sculpture have shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Western Exhibitions, and the Columbus Museum of Art.[15] She was an artist in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in 2020.[16]

She participated in the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art's Ten x Ten 2013, which "investigates the relationship between color and sound...exploring the underlying concepts of synesthesia".[17] In 2013, she produced an "entirely new body of work in animation, sculpture, and drawing" for her first solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.[18]

Comics

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Carré has created comics and illustrations for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Best American Comics, and published several books of comics with Fantagraphics.[19]

Her books of comics include Tippy and the Night Parade (2014), Heads or Tails (2012), Nine Ways to Disappear (2009), The Lagoon (2008),[20] and Tales of Woodsman Pete (2006). An excerpt from The Lagoon was chosen to be included in The Best American Comics 2010 [21] and "The Carnival" was nominated for Outstanding Story at the 2009 Ignatz Awards.[22] Carré's film How She Slept at Night screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.[23]

She provided the illustrations in Andrew Sean Greer's 2017 novel Less,[24] which received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[25]

Films

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Books

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  • The Deaths of Henry King (2017, Uncivilized; ISBN 978-1-941250-20-4)
  • Tippy and the Night Parade (2014, Toon Books; ISBN 978-1935179573)
  • Heads or Tails (2012, Fantagraphics Books; ISBN 978-1606995976)
  • The Fir-Tree (2009, It Books-HarperCollins; ISBN 978-0061782367)
  • Nine Ways to Disappear (2009, Little Otsu; ISBN 978-1934378175)
  • The Lagoon (2008, Fantagraphics Books; ISBN 978-1560979548)
  • Tales Of Woodsman Pete (2006, Top Shelf Productions; ISBN 978-1891830846)

Anthologies

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  • Best American Comics 2006, 2008, and 2010, Houghton Mifflin
  • Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010, Houghton Mifflin

References

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  1. ^ Carré, Lilli (2023). "lillicarre.com/about". Lilli Carré. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  2. ^ Western Exhibitions (2023). "Lilli Carré, Western Exhibitions". westernexhibitions.com. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  3. ^ "CalArts Experimental Animation Faculty". Lilli Carré. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d Christopher Borrelli (December 10, 2012). "Pinning down Chicago artist Lilli Carre". Chicago Tribune.
  5. ^ a b "Lilli Carré Interview". Arts Alive. Loyola University Chicago. 2011. Archived from the original on March 18, 2014.
  6. ^ Melanie Maddison (September 10, 2010). "Artist interview: Lilli Carré". Pikaland.
  7. ^ a b c Tom Spurgeon (August 2, 2009). "A Short Interview With Lilli Carré". The Comics Reporter.
  8. ^ "MCA Screen Lilli Carré, Cycles & Marks". Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. 2014. Archived from the original on March 16, 2014.
  9. ^ Sundance Film Festival (2013). "How She Slept at Night – sundance.org". Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  10. ^ International Film Festival Rotterdam. "Lilli Carré – IFFR". iffr.com. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  11. ^ 25FPS Film Festival (2023). "Lilli Carré, Tap Water – 25 FPS". www.25fps.hr. Retrieved January 27, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation (2023). "About Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation". Eyeworks. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  13. ^ CalArts School of Film/Video. "Experimental Animation Faculty – Lilli Carré". CalArts School of Film/Video. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  14. ^ Western Exhibitions (2023). "Western Exhibitions – Lilli Carré". westernexhibitions.com. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  15. ^ Western Exhibitions. "Recent Exhibitions – Lilli Carré". westernexhibitions.com. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  16. ^ Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (2023). "Bemis Center – Lilli Carré". www.bemiscenter.org. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  17. ^ "TEN X TEN 2013". Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. 2013.
  18. ^ "BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Lilli Carré". Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. December 2013. Archived from the original on February 14, 2014.
  19. ^ Fantagraphics (2023). "Lilli Carré Books". Fantagraphics. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  20. ^ "Theater | Guide to Chicago's Musicals & Plays". Time Out Chicago. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  21. ^ Neil Gaiman, ed., The Best American Comics 2010, Houghton Mifflin (2010), pg.318, ISBN 0-547-24177-1
  22. ^ "American TV | Comparing Satellite Internet and Satellite TV". www.americantv.com. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  23. ^ "How She Slept at Night," [1], retrieved on June 18, 2011
  24. ^ Andrew Sean Greer (October 23, 2017). "Andrew Sean Greer "Art Is Transforming"". Klat Magazine (Interview). Interviewed by Enrico Rotelli. Retrieved November 13, 2022.
  25. ^ "Less, by Andrew Sean Greer (Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company)". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
  26. ^ Corbett vs Dempsey (2023). "Lilli Carré – Stone Fruit". corbettvsdempsey.com. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  27. ^ International Film Festival Rotterdam (2023). "Glazing – IFFR". iffr.com. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  28. ^ Exhibitions, Western (January 19, 2021), Lilli Carré: Gloves Off, retrieved January 27, 2023
  29. ^ International Film Festival Rotterdam (2023). "Private Properties – IFFR". iffr.com. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  30. ^ New Chitose Airport Festival (August 25, 2018). "Huskies". 新千歳空港国際アニメーション映画祭2018 (in Japanese). Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  31. ^ 25FPS Film Festival. "Tap Water – 25 FPS". www.25fps.hr. Retrieved January 27, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  32. ^ Western Exhibitions. "Jill – Western Exhibitions". westernexhibitions.com. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  33. ^ "LILLI CARRÉ – FILMS". Lilli Carré.
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