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“Creative Responses”
NORTHERN SOUNDINGS: Alaska in Conversation with Robert Hannon
KUAC FM
November 12, 2019
Climate change is a growing concern, sparking different responses. Noted portraitist and multimedia artist Brenda Zlamany is documenting its impact by capturing the likenesses and stories of residents in key communities. This summer she visited Utqiagvik and was the artist in residence at Denali National Park. She reveals the sometimes emotional bonds linking the artist and subject.
100/100 Trailer
Trailer for 100/100 ITINERANT PORTRAITIST
Co-Directors: Brenda Zlamany/Laure Sullivan
Original Music: Aaron Kernis
SHORT SYNOPSIS
In 2017, the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, NY, turned 100. Over the course of that year, portrait painter Brenda Zlamany painted 100 of the residents. 100 surprising, unique, and inspiring stories emerged. This film focuses on the engagement between artist and subject through the collaborative nature of the portrait process.
Brenda Zlamany 100/100
Exhibition video On view at the Derfner Judaica Museum, September 10, 2017–January 7, 2018
October 26, 2017
News 12 Bronx
October 17, 2017
News Spot
Brenda Zlamany talks about doing a portrait a day.
Dr. Lisa Gives a Sh*t, Radio Free Brooklyn
May 24, 2016
Accomplished painter and portrait artist and now curator! recently completed a 365 portrait a day project so we get to find out what the experience was like for her since they were all done from live subjects. Brenda is also the mother of a lovely teenage girl, Oona, and it affected her too. A lot of unexpected stuff here!
888: Portraits in Taiwan
2012
“888: Portraits in Taiwan” presents the adventures of Brenda Zlamany and her ten-year-old Mandarin-speaking daughter, Oona, who serves as her interpreter and fellow “head hunter,” as they travel in Taiwan in search of subjects to paint. Fifteen of the thirty cities, towns, and aboriginal villages that they visited are highlighted in short segments: Hua-lien, Jialan, Dagangkou, Three Stack Village, Lan Yü, Qingquan, Mindoyo Bird Sanctuary, Kao-hsiung, Sandimen, Wutai, Tai-nan, Taipei, Taoyuan, Wu-lai, and Nan-ao. “888: Portraits in Taiwan” shows the diversity of the locations and people they encountered. Traditional dance, music, food, and crafts are depicted. The video reveals the artistic process by which Zlamany made her portraits: meeting people, creating bonds with them, producing the portraits with the camera lucida while in homes, in places of business, or on the street. Subjects’ responses to their finished portraits are captured.
“Project 888.” MOCA Taipei Interview with Brenda Zlamany
March 28, 2012
This interview was recorded and edited by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, on the occasion of Brenda Zlamany’s exhibition “Project 888” (January 15–February 29, 2012).
Exhibition Opening of 888: Portraits in Taiwan, at Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York (TECO-NY), June 1, 2012
Brenda Zlamany (Artist) @ Saatchi NY’s 7x7: 5th Edition
Brenda Zlamany (Artist, 888 Project) presents at Saatchi NY’s 7x7: 5th Edition