Animation Generation

On view October 30, 2022 – April 16, 2023

Quisqueya Henriquez, Intertextualidad (Intertextuality), 2005. Video. Video Time: 3 minutes (looped). NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; gift of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Key Biscayne, FL. © Quisqueya Henriquez

Animation Generation presents film and videos from the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale Collection that use elements of animation and illustration. The selection ranges from cels for Walt Disney’s second animated feature film Pinocchio (1940) to the pioneering 3-D digital animations of Jennifer Steinkamp. The technology has rapidly developed since the early 20th century, when animations required teams of artists and animators to undertake the laborious task of hand-painting each scene. Although the advent of computer-generated imagery in the 1960s allowed artists to achieve life-like effects, artists such as Raymond Pettibon and William Kentridge (whose two-channel film Ursonate is on view in the adjoining gallery) chose to produce animations that appear decidedly hand-made. With the recent launch of Meta AI’s Animated Drawings software, even children can watch their own drawn figures dance, skip and jump in seconds.

Raymond Pettibon, Repeater Pencil, 2004. Single-screen animation and audio track. Video Time: 14 min 12 sec. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; Gift of Paul Berg. © Raymond Pettibon

Top Image: Quisqueya Henriquez, Intertextualidad (Intertextuality), 2005. Video. Video Time: 3 minutes (looped). NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; gift of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Key Biscayne, FL. © Quisqueya Henriquez

Bottom Image: Raymond Pettibon, Repeater Pencil, 2004. Single-screen animation and audio track. Video Time: 14 min 12 sec. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; Gift of Paul Berg. © Raymond Pettibon

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Major support for NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is provided by the David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation, the City of Fort Lauderdale, Community Foundation of Broward, the Broward County Cultural Division, the Cultural Council, and the Broward County Board of County Commissioners, and the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts.