Jake Fried
| Jake Fried | |
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 Jake Fried in 2016 | |
| Notable work | The Deep End, Waiting Room |
| Style | Stop motion animation |
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Jake Fried is an artist who began his career as a painter. As he went through the process of layering and modifying images, he became interested in the way the image changed over time. Thus, he changed direction to become an animator. Fried works with ink and white correction fluid, sometimes adding gouache, collage and even coffee to generate hallucinatory stop motion animations. He modifies and photographs the artwork over and over to create an image that evolves rapidly over the course of the short (typically one-minute long) video.[1] His animations have been shown internationally, including at the Tate Modern and the Sundance Film Festival.[2][3][4]
He currently teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.[5]
Style and technique
He making mind-blowing drawings, paintings, and animations that intense, psychedelic imagery. Now he has made more good works in his new animation which is Night Vision. Created from hand drawn animation with ink and white out. Each section that his animations is one work turning into another work, compiling onto one another until you are overwhelmed with imagery. We are held in a trance-like state, mesmerized by the illustrations unfolding and collapsing right before our eyes like a strange and wonderful hallucination.
These works unfurl and develop by a story, transporting us to different worlds full fantastical transitions. His morphing man in the animation Raw Data, takes us through a journey of this being as he grows different arms and his body transforms completely. In Jake Fried’s piece titled The Deep End, created by ink, whiteout, and coffee, another being is present and is pulled from the underground and flooded with many colors until, by the end of the animation, there is nothing left. Jake Fried’s work transformative and original, leaving us in awe at the intricate layering and alterations that take place in his monumental work.[6]
Jake Fried just released his newest psychedelic animation, The Deep End, that was drawn by ink, coffee, and white-out. The animation is frequently layered on top of itself as forms morph, bend and transform across the screen. I can’t help however wonder how thick the final canvas is with so many layers of illustration. If you were as blown away by this as I was, you’re in luck: see some of his earlier animations such as Sick Leave and Waiting Room.[7]
Jake Fried made Nightfall In 2011. Headache, Last Meal, Waiting Room, Sick Leave, The Deep End, Raw Data, Down Into Nothing, Headspace and Brain Lapse would follow. Hand drawing ten to twenty frames a day, Fried scans every frames as he moves along. For many animators, this possibly mean 1000 of stills and in-betweens lying around, but not for Jake fried. He creates his dark, primarily black-and-white designs directly on the image as he proceeds, obliterating the drawing below with layers of Wite-Out, gouache, ink, coffee and so on. Yet for so much work in the past 2 years, the resulting physical product is eight thick and crusty pieces of drawing paper. They look like the collected mess of a painter's mixing palette layered and dried to half an inch thick. [8]
Education and work
Artist Jake Fried wanted to add some artistic change into his life. He enlisted in the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), that then led him on a skill-honing journey to arts school in Boston, the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and eventually an Art History course in Boston. He now create hand drawn animated films using ink, coffee, correction fluid and gouache paint. His recent film ‘Raw Data’, bagged him a place on Saatchi & Saatchi’s New Directors’ Showcase.[9]
Fried keeps these relics, however they aren't the end work. “I've never been interested in making old-style animations using individual cells,” he says. “Rather, I approach my work as ‘moving paintings’ where one image morphs and evolves, each frame building on top of the last.” The stills visible here, for instance, are now as buried under layers of art media as a long-since-covered piece at a famous graffiti art. All of Fried’s animations has since racked up 100 of 1000 of online views from all of the world. As a artist, he have no idea what he can expect.
“I have always reworked my images over long periods of time.” Fried explains: “I realized eventually that I was more interested in the evolution of the image rather than reaching any final state. So my animation process is really an extension of what I’ve always done. I just didn’t ‘see them’ until I began recording the process.”
For the kind of person who finds the gallery setting a most inconvenient, awkward and extremely uncomfortable place to watch anything on a moving screen, Jake Fried hears you. While the ideal setting for his animations is “in a theater or gallery setting without distraction,” putting the works online has elevated the role of pause button. “I think of each individual frame in my films as their own work of art, and online viewing encourages one to stop at any point for closer inspection.” However you may not be able to hit pause in a museum video room, it’s entirely within reach while start naked in a dark bedroom. —Caleb Neelon [10]
References
- ↑ Berkowitz, Joe (2013-01-08). "This Freaky Animation Was Hand-Drawn With Ink, White-Out, And Coffee". Fast Company. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
Artist Jake Fried has one of 2013's first must-see animations with this mind-melting psychedelic short, hand-drawn with ink, White-Out, and coffee.
- ↑ Rinaldi, Ray Mark (2013-05-24). ""Flash Fridays": Denver's giant LED signs make for its newest art gallery". The Denver Post. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
A still from Jake Fried's "Deep End," part of the Friday Flash program this week.
- ↑ Rao, Mallika (2012-05-10). "'Waiting Room': Jake Fried's Spiritual White-Out Animation". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
The latest in artist Jake Fried's "moving painting" series features a cluttered room, men in hazard suits, and a Hindu deity.
- ↑ Limer, Eric (2013-01-06). "This Trippy Animation Is Nothing But Coffee, White-Out, and Ink". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
"The Deep End" by adding coffee and white-out to the mix, but only using one [filthy] sheet of paper.
- ↑ Gilsdorf, Ethan (2014-05-08). "Children’s Film Festival is fueled by imagination". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
The kids were taught the art of animation — from flipbooks to hand-drawn walking characters to claymation — by Boston artist, animator, and museum educator Jake Fried.
- ↑ Nafziger, Christina. "Jake Fried’s Animations Created With Only White Out And Ink Will Leave You In A Psychedelic Trance". Beautiful/Decay. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
- ↑ "The Deep End: A Jaw-Dropping Animation Drawn by Hand with Ink, White-out, and Coffee by Jake Fried". Colossal. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
- ↑ "Juxtapoz Magazine - Frame on Frame: The Hand-Drawn Animations of Jake Fried". www.juxtapoz.com. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
- ↑ "New Talent: Jake Fried | LBBOnline". lbbonline.com. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
- ↑ "Juxtapoz Magazine - Frame on Frame: The Hand-Drawn Animations of Jake Fried". www.juxtapoz.com. Retrieved 2016-04-25.