As a depressive person, Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson understands self-loathing as a symptom of the incessant judgment and isolation of social hierarchies. In an attempt to interrupt their own and others' oppressive narratives, they invite audiences to collectively acknowledge feelings of alienation, prompting unusual moments of community among strangers. These projects focus on the cartoonish reality of living in a body: the absurdity, resonance, and impermanence of everyday felt experiences. Most of their work uses a frame-by-frame animation process, combining traditional cartoon production techniques and tropes with installation, sound, printmaking, and performance. Every project is a spell to decay illusions of separation, to celebrate each other as interconnected, weird phenomena.
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), among others. Gwyneth's work is included in collections at FRISE and the Institute of Contemporary Art Library in Baltimore, and their projects have been written about in Newcity, the Reader, Dusted Magazine, Chicago Artist Writers, and Chicago Magazine. Gwyneth was trained in Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening program, was an organizer with the Chicago anti-racism collective Make Yourself Useful, and is currently a Sculpture MFA candidate at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia.
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)
