UNDISCOVERED GEMS: Phyllis Bulkin-Lehrer

UNDISCOVERED GEMS: Phyllis Bulkin-Lehrer – Lily Hatchett

Date posted: June 18, 2006 Author: jolanta

Lily Hatchett

Phyllis had been an accomplished painter for quite some
time when she started her performance work: choreographing and transforming
people into shapes and having them move about in front of appreciative
audiences. So, it was only natural that she would turn to animation
choreography, putting lines and shapes through some rigorous acrobatic paces.
Working with stop action animation as well as Adobe, she has wrangled a large
variety of small inanimate objects, such as tea, into doing her bidding.

"…then, I had to build a stage setting for my
Videos", she showed me the beautifully built and painted "sets"
with embedded video monitors. "The installation is the body, the video is
the brain". The Giant Black Umbrella, with two small monitors, each
showing an animated eye, the scaled down Toilet monitor giving us a glimpse of
the seashore, one art form peeking out from another. Here painting, sculpture
and video meet and mix it up on a level playing field. Phyllis’ work has been
seen at the Not Still Art Festival 2003, the Vision Festival and in
collaboration with composer Man Yee Lam at the Hong Kong Fringe Festival.