Strange House

Role: Director

Promotional Video

 

Strange House is the brainchild of Courtney Seabrooks, a multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in the tactile and timeless. It offers a line of original paintings intended for interior designers and art-lovers alike, who aim to enrich their spaces with fine shape work, demure abstract figures, or subtle paroxysms of expressionist color work.

 

A promotional video which gave a more intimate sense of the artist was the aim of this piece. Though Strange House’s paintings are created to be light and, possibly, fanciful in some cases, it was important to situate them within the larger context of present-day reality and the struggles within it. The artist is not unaware of the broader mental and physical landscape, but, rather, she chooses where to focus her light, whether it be in a small, perfect section of this world, or another in a world as yet unseen.

 

We followed Courtney while on a visit to an exhibition of the work of one of her favorite contemporary painters, Velma Rosai, held by the Sara Brook Gallery in Hollywood, California. The juxtaposition between the chaotic, cold night scenes, shot handheld in Downtown, Los Angeles and the calm, day scenes of making and appreciating art, was intended to more clearly define the contrast that exists between Art and the environment in which it may live.