Michael Workman

Through an initiative called the Young Friends committee, a new art-film screening premieres, curated by Tracy M. Taylor and showing for one night only. The premise of the screening is to investigate film that exists "within the framework of painting and drawing." Among those on the bill are fledgling luminaries such as Jeremy Blake, Jay Heikes, Fraser Taylor and a list of long-burning stars including recent MCA 12x12 exhibitor and former Suitable Gallery Director Scott Wolniak and Whitney Biennial winner Jim Trainor. Trainor's work almost exclusively centers on turning his copious drawings into animated shorts and features, often as a thought experiment into the evolutionary effects of genetics on imagined animal species. His animations are at once heartfelt and cruelly bathetic in how their elevated, often spiritualized narratives drown out the futility of his characters' onscreen struggle to survive their often deadly encounters with life.

"Bilingual" shows at The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 2320 West Chicago, (773)227-5522 on August 18 at 7pm. (2005-08-16)

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