Erin Cosgrove: Press

Humankind just tends to tickle Erin Cosgrove
The artist finds meaning … and humor … in romance, religion and other preoccupations.

By Holly Myers, Special to the Los Angeles Times, December 26, 2010

“Since embracing narrative, her work has grown only broader in scope and sharper in its satire. In her next major project, the animated epic "What Manner of Person Art Thou?," she turned from romance to religion to tell the story of renegade members of a Hutterite sect who set out on a mission through a secular world they find awash in corruption and debauchery and to which they respond with violent indignation. It is a bizarre, hilarious and bloody spectacle, rendered in a stiff but fantastical visual style that combines elements of medieval manuscripts, Colonial-era Americana and "South Park." (She taught herself to animate as she went along, using a combination of Photoshop and After Effects. "It starts out looking like it's made by a bunch of monkeys," she says, "and then eventually, I think, some of it looks quite nice.")”

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