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==Viviane Silvera==

===Summary===

‘’’Viviane Silvera’’’, born 1971, is an American artist and filmmaker. Silvera was born in Hong Kong and raised in Hong Kong and Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is also an Italian citizen. Silvera currently lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters. She is known for her oversize portrait drawings of Bill Clinton, “Praying Hands”  , her series of paintings “Therapy Part One and Part Two, that explore the world of therapy portrayed in films such as, Ordinary People - [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_People], In Treatment (HBO series) - [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Treatment_(American_TV_series)] , Good Will Hunting  [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Will_Hunting] and The King’s Speech  [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King%27s_Speech]. In 2013 she began making her own films with hand painted moving imagery through the recording of thousands of painting stills. See Memory was released in 2016 and explores the workings of memory through the combining of interviews with neuroscientists and psychiatrists (such as Eric Kandel [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Kandel], Daniela Schiller

[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela_Schiller]  and Silvana Riggio - links to their pages) and Silvera’s moving paintings that tell the story of a young woman and her therapist.

Silvera’s new film, Feel Memory

(in production) is a full length creative documentary, in which Silvera tells the stories of three daughters who go on quests to uncover their parent’s hidden pasts. She combines live action with animation to create memory and dream sequences and reveal the characters’ inner worlds.

Video excerpts of Silvera’s  hand-painted animations have been installed at MGM National Harbor



and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation among other venues. Silvera uses acrylic, gouache and pencil to generate magical realist sequences modifying and shooting paintings over and over to create moving imagery. She received  the Award of Excellence in painting from The Edward Hopper House, and her work has been licensed by McCann Advertising and installed in hotels, universities, and museums.

==Early Life==

Viviane was born in Hong Kong and raised in Hong Kong and Brazil before moving to New York City at the age of 15, where she attended The Dalton School. She graduated from Tufts University with a Bachelor of Arts in  Psychology and Political Science. After university, she returned to New York where she completed a  Masters in Fine Art from the New York Academy of Art.

==Career==

Silvera’s hand-painted videos have been installed at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the University of Mary Washington, Davidson College, MGM National Harbor in Washington D.C, 4Culture in Pioneer Square Seattle and Cube Art Project - Union Bank in Lincoln, NE among others.

Solo exhibitions include the Edward Hopper House, Iron Gate East Gallery and 511 Galery and group exhibitions at the Albright Knox Gallery, The Dahesh Museum, The Masur Museum and The Museo de la Cuidad - Mexico.

“See Memory,” is available on Amazon and Labocine.com and was a selection of the Imagine Science Film Festival, the American Psychological Association Film Festival, Scenes & Screens Festival with Altspace VR - Microsoft and the Viten Film Festival, among others.

Silvera’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Clinton Presidential Library & Museum, the Van Every Smith Galleries at Davidson College, Vanderbilt University’s "Garden of Great Ideas, the Ziff Davis Corporate Collection and Tribeca Flashpoint Media Academy. Her outdoor sculpture, “The Fault” was made for the Women’s Studies Department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, where it is permanently installed and was funded by a grant from the Newington Cropsey Foundation. She is a two- time recipient of the Chaim Gross Award and the winner of Valerie Delacorte Award and the Harriet Whitney Frishmuth Travel Award from the National Academy School of Fine Arts. Most recently Silvera received the Award of Excellence in Painting at the Edward Hopper House.

Silvera’s work has been written about in Art Daily, The Wall Street Journal, Art Habens, Gotham Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, Time Out New York and The New York Times and was the cover and featured interview in Gambling the Aisle Literary magazine.

Viviane runs On Art  https://www.vsonart.com/ (link) where she curates and leads gallery and studio tours, and hosts salons for curators, writers and filmmakers.

Selected works== == Silvera  began working on her film See Memory in 2013. The 23 paintings she created for the film portray a young woman’s journey to understand and come to terms with her memories. Told in magical realist style with colors that drip, layer and bleed into each other, the evocative paintings are a visual metaphor for the act of remembering.

The film’s  title was inspired by Oliver Sacks’ article "Speak, Memory". The narration is based on her interviews with neuroscientists and psychiatrists, including Nobelist Eric Kandel. The film explains our "magical capability" called memory, the essence of what we call "self". Narrator Viviane Silvera describes how memories interact and mingle with imagination, exploring it in "shifting layers of imagery with perception interacting with dreams and imagination." The positive reaction to “See Memory,” particularly from the scientific community, has sparked support for a full-length production that is currently in development. Titled "Feel Memory," it will expand upon the themes raised in "See Memory” with interviews of scientists as well as animation

“I made See Memory with the belief that the need to understand memory and how it shapes who we are is universal. The film combines art and science, giving a vivid and visceral experience of what it is to remember and be haunted as well as enriched by our memories.” SIlvera

''“Looking at Silvera’s work is not unlike exploring a beach in the dark—it takes some time to get situated and one’s path is not readily illuminated. But whether the eye goes to the light or to the mystery of shadow first, the viewer takes his or her own unique journey through each painting.”'' Gotham Magazine

Process and inspiration== == Silvera’s work begins in film, is transformed into painting, and then put back into film, requiring the making of tens of thousands of painting stills to create movement and the passage of time.

Her animation style is notable for her use of layering and paint drips as a metaphor for remembering. She films her characters, and then selects stills from the footage as a point of departure for painted scenes that bring to life their inner worlds. Her work is inspired by her love of cinema, her interest in psychology; how people think, perceive and behave, and painting.

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