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Matt Bollinger — The House on Weirdfield Street, Notebook 1
Matt Bollinger

The House on Weirdfield Street, Notebook 1

2015

A hand-drawn stop motion animation completed in 2015, "The House on Weirdfield Street, Notebook 1" exemplifies Matt Bollinger's singular approach to narrative filmmaking through accumulated mark-making. Working directly in notebook form, Bollinger constructs sequences frame by frame, and the resulting animation carries the warmth and tactile intimacy of drawing as a sustained, time-based act. The work belongs to a broader investigation of working-class American domestic life, rendering its subjects with a quiet psychological weight that owes as much to literary fiction as to visual art traditions. Bollinger's practice occupies a compelling space between painting, drawing, and cinema, and this notebook-based work makes that synthesis unusually transparent. The physical object from which the animation originates carries its own presence as an artifact, bearing the evidence of labor and revision embedded in its pages. His imagery, shaped by a realist sensibility inflected with unease, draws comparisons to Edward Hopper and Raymond Carver, though Bollinger's formal choices are entirely his own, rooted in the vernacular materials of everyday life. Signed by the artist and currently available through Zürcher Gallery, with locations in New York and Paris, this work represents an important moment in Bollinger's ongoing engagement with the animated medium as a vehicle for intimate, socially attentive storytelling. For collectors interested in the expanded boundaries of works on paper or the intersection of drawing and time-based media, this piece offers a rare opportunity to acquire a work that holds both material and conceptual richness in equal measure.

Medium
Hand drawn, stop motion animation
Signed
Yes

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Matt Bollinger, The House on Weirdfield Street, Notebook 1, 2015

A hand-drawn stop motion animation completed in 2015, "The House on Weirdfield Street, Notebook 1" exemplifies Matt Bollinger's singular approach to narrative filmmaking through accumulated mark-making. Working directly in notebook form, Bollinger constructs sequences frame by frame, and the resulting animation carries the warmth and tactile intimacy of drawing as a sustained, time-based act. The work belongs to a broader investigation of working-class American domestic life, rendering its subjects with a quiet psychological weight that owes as much to literary fiction as to visual art traditions. Bollinger's practice occupies a compelling space between painting, drawing, and cinema, and this notebook-based work makes that synthesis unusually transparent. The physical object from which the animation originates carries its own presence as an artifact, bearing the evidence of labor and revision embedded in its pages. His imagery, shaped by a realist sensibility inflected with unease, draws comparisons to Edward Hopper and Raymond Carver, though Bollinger's formal choices are entirely his own, rooted in the vernacular materials of everyday life. Signed by the artist and currently available through Zürcher Gallery, with locations in New York and Paris, this work represents an important moment in Bollinger's ongoing engagement with the animated medium as a vehicle for intimate, socially attentive storytelling. For collectors interested in the expanded boundaries of works on paper or the intersection of drawing and time-based media, this piece offers a rare opportunity to acquire a work that holds both material and conceptual richness in equal measure.

Medium
Hand drawn, stop motion animation
Year
2015
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Zürcher, New York | Paris

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