Annie Poon has created many stop motion animations along with prints and paintings. Her artwork explores scriptures as well as her struggles through life. Annie Poon writes, "I am a painter-turned-animator, living and working in the city of my dreams, the Big Apple!"

Annie Benac Poon

LDS

Earned a BFA in drawing and painting from the School of Visual Arts in New York. I started animating in my last semester of art school at the School of Visual Arts where experimenting was very much encouraged. I am thankful for that!

Annie Poon is a multimedia artist, she has created over 30 animations as well as paints, prints, and sculptures. She has worked with the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery, the Museum of art and Design, The Brooklyn Museum, Mormon Artist Group, The Madison Square Park Conservancy, Cornell University, as well as many others. Her animations are in the collection of both the Museum of Modern art as well as the LDS church. Some organizations I’ve worked with include: The Museum of Modern Art, Brigham Young University, MIT, The Museum of Art and Design, Mormon Artist Group, The National Gallery, the Brooklyn Academy of Art, the Next Wave Festival, PBS, CBS, New York 1, the New Museum, Nickelodeon, the Kidsfilmfest, the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, The Brooklyn Museum, Bonneville Communications, The Madison Square Park Conservancy, Snow College, Carrot Books, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Fred Flare, and Pfizer. My animations are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the LDS church."

My recent work often skates the boundary between terrifying and fascinating, health and distress, reflecting a diagnosis of Schizzoaffective disorder. This condition pushes me to extremes of both bliss and fear. Working predominantly in black-and-white aids my attempts to depict these polarities. My work also picks up on childhood games and passions where I left them before my formal art education began. I construct animated paper narratives and re-visualize the holy scriptures to reflect those elementary impressions. These scenes differ widely from standard representations of religious iconography. The avatar of the artist in a white nightgown occupies many of these works. She is on a quest through the levels between heaven and hell, innocence and knowing. Her recurrence indicates childlike inquiry and vulnerability.

Female

Animator, Artist, Multi-Media Artist