Sara Kathryn Arledge | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 28, 1911 Mojave, CA |
| Died | 1998 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | UCLA and Columbia University |
Sarah Kathryn Arledge ( Born September 28, 1911) is an American director, writer, and artist. She is known for her contributions to Experimental film, such as Introspection (1946) and What is a Man? (1958). Arledge painted throughout her career, and worked in the media of glass slide transparencies which combined attributes of painting and filmmaking.
Early life edit
Arledge was born in Mojave, California. She attended UCLA, Columbia University, and the Barnes Foundation, where she studied painting.[1]
Career edit
Arledge began taking an interest in film while living in Pasadena, California, where she wrote and directed Introspection (1946) and What is a Man? (1958). The fragile nature of this medium led her to make her "stabile color films" between 1978 and 1980 that integrated the slides and sound recordings in such works as "Tender Images," "Interior Garden I," Interior Garden II," and "Iridium Sinus (Cave of the Rainbows).
Barbara Hammer describes how, "Arledge creates films that combine structural and painterly concerns guided by the emotions. She represents for us the filmmaker as a whole person, as unified woman, as liver/artist...".[2] Arledge received a Bachelor of Education degree in Art from the University of California Los Angeles in 1936. She taught at the Department of Art at the University of Oklahoma from 1943–44, and at the University of Arizona, Tucson from 1945-46.[3]
Arledge is also recognized for her glass slide transparencies, which are created by layering pieces of multicolored stage-light gelatins and baking them on glass slides. The artist then draws on the surface of the gels with a variety of objects, and seals the images by covering them with another set of glass slides.[4]
Films edit
- "Introspection" (1946)
- "What Is A Man?" (1958)
- "Interior Garden"
- "Tender Images"
- "Iridum Sinus"
Group exhibitions edit
Arledge has participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout her career. Some of these include:
Notes edit
- ^ Posner, Bruce (January 1, 2001). Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-garde Film 1893-1941. Anthology Film Archives. ISBN 9780962818172.
- ^ Hammer, Barbara (1980–81). "Sara Kathryn Arledge". Cinemanews (6/1). San Francisco, California: The Foundation for Art in Cinema, 1963-1984, Larkspur, California.
- ^ Dixon, Wheeler (1997). The exploding eye: a re-visionary history of 1960's American experimental Cinema. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, Albany. pp. 11–13. ISBN 0-7914-3565-2.
- ^ Anker, Steve; Geritz, Kathy; Seid, Steve; Cannon, Terry (2010). Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 - 2000. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 9780520947252.
- ^ "The Making of Personal Theory: Mysticism and Metaphysics in the Work of Sara Kathryn Arledge, Charles Irvin, and Jim Shaw". Armory Center for the Arts. Retrieved 8 March 2015.