Joey Fauerso will show It is easy, It is good, a projected animation and a series of drawings from the animation’s construction. Her animations start with her filming a closely cropped human figure directed to perform a specific action (e.g. screaming or reading a poem). She then breaks down the video into individual frames, focusing on actions and movements that are involuntary. She paints these individual frames and films the paintings, thus slowing down the figures’ movements in the resulting projected animation. The individual paintings and the animation are exhibited together, juxtaposing two representations of a single event: one organized spatially in a grid, the other temporally in a real-time animation.
Fauerso’s paintings, animations, and works on paper use the figure to provoke an awareness of space and the body in viewers. She states that she is interested in using representation, and the framework for that representation (whether it be white paper, a grid, or a found landscape), as a way to present shifting or contradictory perspectives.
Joey Fauerso recently completed a year-long residency in Roswell, New Mexico that culminated in the show If I’m Thinking I’m Probably Feeling at the Roswell Museum of Art. She has impending solo shows in 2007 at the Arlington Museum of Art and Finesilver Gallery in San Antonio and her work has been discussed in Flash Art, Art US, and Art Papers. She lives and works in San Antonio, Texas.