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McGrath Gallery Presents: Commemorative Cardboard by Carrie Neumayer and Ethan Osman
COMMEMORATIVE CARDBOARD opens Friday, September 20, 5-7 pm at the McGrath Gallery at Bellarmine University and will include a screening of 25+ short films and a wall-to-wall display of the thousands of artifacts of their processes.
Artist Statement / Show Announcement:
Commemorative Cardboard by Carrie Neumayer and Ethan Osman
Carrie and Ethan Bio
Carrie Neumayer and Ethan Osman became friends and collaborators in 2019 after discovering a mutual passion for art made with a focus on process over product. Ethan received his BFA in animation from Kansas City Art Institute in 2006 and after graduating continued an inquiry into the possibilities of working with a medium that can expose its own process.
Carrie, a musician and visual artist who earned a BFA in painting from the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 2002, a Master’s in Art Education in 2007, and a Master’s in Art Therapy in 2023 (University of Louisville) initially created music for Ethan’s films. But Ethan urged Carrie to try her hand at making her own animations— and taught her how. Carrie quickly became absorbed in involving the dimension of time into her practice of collecting objects found on the street and printing them onto paper.
Through a robust collaboration and nearly constant creative dialogue, Commemorative Cardboard was born. The name refers to glorification of cheap, accessible, and abundant materials, as well as a focus on the unpolished, imperfect individual physical frames involved in the handmade animation process.
This show is a comprehensive collection of the experimental animation that Ethan and Carrie created both together and separately in the time since they met.