Camera, lights, charge, pop!

Horton Gallery is proud to announce Martha Colburn’s Camera, lights,
charge, Pop! – opening Friday, September 28th in the gallery’s new,
expanded Lower East Side location at 55-59 Chrystie Street. Marking
the first time that her work has been seen in this capacity, the
exhibition will feature an hour and a half program of about thirty
manipulated found footage and stop animation films from the mid-1990s
to the present as well as Polaroids and large-scale collages.

Martha Colburn is best known as a filmmaker, animator, and multimedia
artist who employs a variety of techniques, including puppetry,
collage, and paint-on-glass. In her pursuit to examine issues of
history, politics, sexuality, consumerism, and popular culture,
Colburn presents narratives propelled with frenetic urgency. As a
notable musician, she has also released six records with Jason Willet
as The Dramatics and collaborated with numerous musicians and artists,
including Yamatsuka Eye and Jad Fair. Among her most recent projects
are music videos for Deerhoof and They Might Be Giants as well as an
animation for the feature film The Devil and Daniel Johnston.

Martha Colburn (b. 1971, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA) lives and
works in Queens, New York and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She earned a
BA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (1994) and attended the
Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten (2002). She has received awards
from the New York Underground Film Festival (2003, 1999) and the
Chicago Underground Film Festival (2002, 1999), and grants from the
Rema Hort Mann Foundation (2007), New York Foundation for the Arts
(2007), New York State Council for the Arts (2007), Jerome Foundation
(2006), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2005), and the Dutch Film
Fund (2004–05) and Fonds BKVB (The Netherlands Foundation for
VisualArts, Design and Architecture (2012). Her work has been included
in the exhibitions Dolls vs. Dictators, The Museum of the Moving
Image, Queens (2011); Don’t kill the weather man!, Stadtmuseum, Jena,
Germany (2010); The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe Biennial (2010); Live
Cinema/Histories in Motion, Philadelphia Museum of Art (2009);
Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass,Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort,
Netherlands (2009); Stages of Alarm, Frans Hals Museum De Hallen,
Haarlem, Netherlands (2008); Meet Me in Wichita, The Kitchen, New York
(2008); Terre d’accueil, terre d’exil, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2007);
and the 2005 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York (2005). She has performed at the MAXXI Museum, Rome (2011), New
Museum, New York (2010); ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn (2010); SFMoMA,
San Francisco (2009); Artists Space, New York (2009); and the Museum
of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2008). Her films have screened at
Anthology Film Archives, New York (2011, 2009) and the Sundance Film
Festival, Park City, Utah (2009, 2007, 2003, 2000), among other film
festivals worldwide. She was recently profiled in three short films on
Art 21’s “New York Close Up.”