Artist Statement
I am a mixed media artist who works in animation, print, illustration, sculpture, installation, performance art, video, and sound. The master of my hand is an old bound up starved child who’s trying to survive in an adult body and make sense of all the blows, beauty, and despair, combining the theme’s of childhood, femininity, longing, the grotesque, humor, and horror.
I draw in a style akin to children’s book illustration, but with adult themes of depression, sexuality, and lost innocence. I use old children’s toys, found objects, and hand sculpted figures to create my own stop motion animations and sculptures. I create two dimensional animations in traditional and digital media.
Joanna Sefkow
Santa Barbara, CA
Joanna_sefkow@yahoo.com
Education:
BFA in Animation, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis MN,
Graduated May 2018
AA in Liberal Studies, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara CA
Graduated 2007
2 week intensive course on soap stone carving with Sandy Cline,
The William Holland School of Lapidary Arts, 2009
Awards:
Merit Scholarship at MCAD 2017
Commissions:
Cat House Hotel Santa Barbara CA, Mural.
2020
Mural, Fargo, North Dakota,
2014, 2012
Designed personalized room signs for cat condos, The Cat House Hotel,
Santa Barbara, CA 2009-2013
Painted and laminated independently commissioned surfboards shaped by Clint Jones,
San Diego CA, 2009-2011
Exhibition:
Vitamin 4-D, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara CA, 2015
Skills:
Software:
Adobe Photoshop, Premier, Audtion, After Effects
Traditional:
Mold making, work with Resin, fiberglass, Plaster Casting, Relief Printing,
Screen Printing, Etching, Dry point.
References and Portfolio available upon request