Erin Cosgrove Film Screening
Franklin Art Works is proud to present a screening of Erin Cosgrove’s animated Film What Manner of Person Art Thou (2009) on Saturday, April 23 at 7:30pm.
What Manner of Person Art Thou? follows Yoder and Troyer, the only survivors of two small Amish-like colonies in the Northwestern U.S., after a series of catastrophes and epidemics. The two set off on a journey to find any remaining relatives and begin dispensing violent justice on the evildoers of contemporary society; each encounter represents one of the seven deadly sins. The striking visuals are inspired by the 11th century Bayeux Tapestry. The video is a darkly funny tale of the corruption of modern life and the hazards of morality.
Cosgrove lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited internationally, at venues including the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, The Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, International Contemporary Art in Bergen, Norway, and Arco in Madrid, Spain.
This event is presented in conjunction with Cosgrove’s artist talk at the University of Minnesota on Thursday, April 21 at 7pm. Both events are free and open to the public.
For more information on Erin’s work, visit her website here. You can also watch a preview of What Manner of Person Art Thou here, or see a video of her 2009 talk at the Hammer Museum here.
