Jessie Rodriguez
Handmade Stop Motion Animations made with Linocut Prints
Featured artist with Not Real Art and Voyage Magazine
About
Jessie Rodriguez is an artist and animator based in Denver, Colorado. Her stop motion animations are created from linocut printmaking. The techniques used to make these films involve creating every visual element from scratch. Characters, textures, background and text are made by hand carving each piece out of linoleum, hand printing it onto paper and then cutting it out, arranging and shooting it frame by frame. She finds inspiration in being able to bring her ideas to life through small scale filmmaking. By working in such a hands-on way she is able to run her own home film studio that allows her to have complete creative control over her work, while pushing her to be inventive and resourceful.Rodriguez is inspired to create by lived experiences and uses her artwork to tell stories to the viewer. They are often playful, but her work also explores themes such as insomnia, hoarding, grief and loss. She is inspired by women filmmakers who have found creative ways to make their work using animation and film, such as Lotte Reiniger, who made her films entirely with shadow art and cut paper.She holds a BFA degree from the University of Colorado, studied art at the Escuela de Artes Plasticas (UNAM) in Mexico City and attended the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. Rodriguez has been a Featured artist with Voyage Magazine and Not Real Art. She's exhibited her artwork and films throughout Colorado to include; Sideshow Studios, Raices Gallery, the Denver Digerati Animation Festival, Optica Lingua Studio and Longmont Out Loud. She holds a studio space at Real Eyes Studio, a part of the Artists on Santa Fe.
Animating a single frame for the Mermaid's Dressing Room
The artist not hard at work
Stop Motion Animations
the Satellite a music video collaboration with Synth Monster.
Screened at Real Eyes Studio & at Longmont Out Loud
Mermaid's Dressing Room originally shown in a peepshow box at Sideshow Studios. Screened at the Denver Digirati Emergent Media Fest downtown LED screen
Abrupt Knife Screened at Optica Lingua Studios as part of the Reconnection showOther Shorts:
Crane Builds a Nest, Siempre en mi Corazon, Fish Dream, Rainbow Bird
Screenings & Shows
Night Lights Denver Clocktower new stop motion animation, Abandonment for projection mapping. Project test shots.
Coming March 2024
Films: Mermaid's Dressing Room, The Satellite & Abrupt Knife screened with Longmont Out Loud at the Longmont Museum Stewart Auditorium.
Mermaid's Dressing Room screened on the LED screen of 17th & Arapahoe as part of the Denver Digirati Emergent Media Festival
The Satellite, a stop motion music video collaboration with Synth Monster premiered at Real Eyes Studios, Denver
Still Images & Prints shown at Raices, Denver
Guest artist at Sideshow Studios for the premier of the Mermaid's Dressing Room. Animation was shown in a Peepshow Box.
Abrupt Knife premiere at Optica Lingua Studio for the Reconnection Exhibit, Denver
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the Satellite
Mermaid's Dressing Room
Abrupt Knife
Contact
If you are in Denver, visit me at Real Eyes Studios, open most First Friday Denver Art Walks, from 6-10 pm at 747 Santa Fe Street, suite A. Located above the Artists on Santa Fe Gallery, upstairs through the purple door.Send a message if seeking commissions, collaborations or other questions. Thank you for visiting!