Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson playfully explores the impermanence and discomfort of everyday human experience. Most of their work uses a frame-by-frame animation process, combining traditional cartoon production techniques with installation, sound, printmaking, and performance. They approach animation as a metaphor about the nature of reality: building a sequence frame-by-frame, or sound-clip-by-sound-clip, is a meditative reminder about the inevitability of change, and a prayer or spell for decaying illusions of separation. What results is the spillage, cartoonishness, and relatability of living in a body.
Gwyneth has presented work on Turtle Island and abroad, including at Roman Susan, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, the Chicago Cultural Center, Roots & Culture, the Hyde Park Art Center, Constellation, and 6018 NORTH in Chicago; MoMA PS1 Print Shop in New York; Peephole Cinema in San Francisco; St. Charles Projects in Baltimore; and @ptt in Geneva. They have been an artist in residence at the Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago), the Institute for Electronic Arts (New York), FRISE (Germany), and Utopiana (Switzerland), and their work is included in collections at FRISE and the Institute of Contemporary Art Library in Baltimore. Their projects have been written about in Newcity, the Reader, Dusted Magazine, Chicago Artist Writers, and Chicago Magazine. Gwyneth is currently a Printmaking and Book Arts artist-in-residence at Flower City Arts Center in Rochester, NY, and will begin the Sculpture MFA program at Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Fall 2024.
Various kinds of press and online presence:
Interview with Tate Shaw on Mouth Sounds, WAYO community radio, June 2024
Interview with Dan Manion on Inside the Edition, Chicago Printmakers Guild podcast, April 2022
Interview with Nance Klehm on Lumpen Radio, October 2021
Return to the Everywhere at Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago Artist Writers, March 2020
Return to the Everywhere booklet, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, April 2020
Survey for White Artists, Monday Journal, April 2020
Concert preview, Chicago Reader, February 2019
Bill Meyer reviews Chyme, Dusted Magazine, March 2019
OtherPeoplesPixels Interviews Gwyneth Anderson, OtherPeoplesPixels Blog, December 2014
Laughing Video recommendation, Chicago Magazine, November 2011
Laughing Video still, TimeOut Chicago, November 2011
Artist biography, Arteles Catalog, October 2011
(Photo by Meredith Zielke)