Ulrika D. Andersson: 01.28.00

I always wanted to make movies, but wouldn’t know how. Paintings work because I can make the actors and fabricate the backdrop myself. I cut my cast out in particleboard and place them between backdrop and foreground using aluminum dividers and steel bolts.

I’ve been making movie posters containing the entire pitch: the heroine, the adventure, the sidekick. Lately I like movie stills, capturing the moment in a drama. This work portrays my own life as 24 stills a second.

Hollywood I find is most informative to painting: where the paint runs and the colors blur is where the camera lens would turn into the sun, or where a flash glare would fill the screen.

Genre is frowned upon in painting but has always been smiled at in commercial cinema. I struggle to elevate sentimental and formulaic imagery into code-based language. I mimic the signaling as it is employed within teen subcultures focusing on specific bands.

My other genres are album covers and computer game captures.