Animorph: Molly English & Kristyn McKinney

Molly English’s works in Animorph are an investigation of transformative processes—from nymph to cicada, bone to copper, object to image and back again. Textile, text, and texture collapse into one another, yielding profusions of wishbones, bluebells, animals, and insects accumulate to create interconnected narratives. Taken together, the works explore a world careless of what it wishes for.

Kristyn McKinney’s work explores representations of the body and landscape through virtually altered artifacts of sound and or movement. By digitally recreating scenes from lived experiences- moments and observations in nature, each video installation acts as a framework of the past present and future of these projected moments in time.

Molly English is a multimedia artist living in Chicago. She received her BA from Columbia College Chicago, and her MFA from the University of North Carolina. In her work, English creates playfully colored and abundantly textured objects that investigate transformational meaning-making in today’s world. She combines folklore, history, and personal experience as a context for exploring the materiality of faith and fiber—the ways in which they hold together and
fall apart.

Kristyn McKinney is a video installation artist using both digital and analogue tools to structure their practice as an experimental filmmaker. Combining their own animated graphics with archived images and pre-recorded events, they create uniquely textured portraits of bodies in motion and shifting virtual landscapes- with an added layer of whimsical audio tunes to further characterize each video/ short film.