Artist Jeneleen Floyd Unveils Sensual New Work Inspired by Hollywood Noir Anatomical drawings come to life and vintage pinups frolick with butterflies in today’s short LA Nocturne, created from the signature collages of Jeneleen Floyd. The animation is set to the backdrop of photographer Max Yavno and Lee Shippey’s 1950s tome The Los Angeles Book, found in a thrift store in Floyd's SoCal neighborhood of Echo Park. “I hadn't intended on using it for collages,” explains the artist, whose creations were recently displayed at the 2012 Santorini Biennale of Arts in Greece and feature in this month's “Kiss Me Deadly: Contemporary Neo-Noir from Los Angeles” at London's Paradise Row gallery. “When I started working on the concept for the show I instantly went and grabbed it from my shelf. I decided to use the book as the character itself.” The exhibition, curated by Texas-born art consultant Price Latimer Agah, examines representations of Tinseltown and its history through works from artists such as Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe, Francesca Gabbiani, Mark Hagen and Glenn Kaino. “It has all the elements of a great neo-noir,” says Agah of today's video. “Symbolic allusions, a stark palette, foreboding music, femmes fatales, jarring editing and a dark mood of hopelessness and romanticism. Courtesy of nowness.com
LA Nocturne on Nowness.com.
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