Winged Painter – RAINN Benefit ft. Tori Amos

SANCHEZ 2WINZ is a New York City-based artist duo consisting of twin brothers Raúl Sánchez & Rod Sánchez. Their works are live cinema audio/visual pieces, which combine: electroacoustic music, painting, animation, video, poetry, and live visual performance art – creating a surreal experience for the senses in both real and imagined spaces.

Most recently, their audio/visual art successfully raised over $1,000 for charity with the release of their “Winged Painter” official music video tribute dedicated to Tori Amos and the RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) campaign, the largest national anti-sexual violence non-profit organization that was named one of "America's 100 Best Charities" by Worth magazine. The Sanchez 2winz music, video and the complete painting were featured on Undented, the central online hub for all-things Tori Amos and their work was also featured on social media channels for RAINN. “Winged Painter” was exhibited at the International Video Art Festival “Borderland: The Entropy of Identities” both at the MECA Mediterráneo Centro Artistico and at the University of Granada in Spain. Fans were able to participate in a contest via their Facebook page, where select listeners won a signature-autographed print of the “Winged Painter” painting by Rod Sánchez featured in the music video (image below).

The short film, “The Winged Painter,” is the culmination of film experiments where digital photography was utilized to document the creation of a painting in real-time and where HD video was utilized to document the expression of an emotion by capturing the flow of paint through water. "The Winged Painter" video was also picked up by Vevo, which now set up a channel for the twins to share their complete and future audio/visual works. Their earlier song “Over White Mountains” is featured on iTunes.

VIDEOGRAPHY

2017 – WINGED PAINTER
a short film by Sanchez 2winz exhibited at the Palm Springs International Animation Festival at the Palm Springs Art Museum.

2016 – WINGED PAINTER
a short film by Sanchez 2winz exhibited at the New York Short Film Festival.

2015 – WINGED PAINTER
A short film by Sanchez 2winz exhibited at the Orlando Festival. "Winged Painter" was nominated for 2 Awards: Best Music Video & Best Focus on Art Award.

2014 – WINGED PAINTER
A short film by Sanchez 2winz exhibited at the International Video Art Festival “Borderland: The Entropy of Identities” both at the MECA Mediterráneo Centro Artistico in Almeria, Spain and at the University of Granada in Granada, Spain.

2008 – MADDY IN THE NEVER ENDING ROOM
A animated short film by Sanchez 2winz. Exhibited at the “Random House Inc. Art Show” in New York City.

2004 – present: LIVING SKINLESS
A film by Sanchez 2winz. “Living Skinless” is a live audio/visual “live cinema” experience performed in various venues in New York City. Performance venues include: Columbia University International House, 3rd Ward Gallery, the White Rabbit Lounge, the Tishman Auditorium, and the Parsons Gallery. Performances ongoing. Live Cinema Performances continue from 2004 to
the present.

2004 – THE MALL LAND
Collaborated with Director Pamela Booker on live visuals for this multimedia play, performed at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City. 2004

2003 – DUST
Collaborated with Director Pamela Booker on live visuals for this multimedia play, performed at the HEREarts Center in New York City.

2001 – REASON IN THE MIRROR
A short film by Sanchez 2winz exhibited at The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio

PERFORMANCES & EXHIBITIONS
As Sanchez 2winz, the twin brothers have performed & exhibited “Living Skinless,” a “live cinema” audio/visual performance in various national and international venues. Performance venues include: the Tishman Auditorium at the New School, Columbia University International House, 3rd Ward Gallery, the White Rabbit Lounge, the Faculty Club at Ohio State University, the Parsons Gallery, the MECA Mediterráneo Centro Artistico in Spain and the University of Granada in Spain. In addition to ongoing live audio/visual performances, the twin brothers also collaborated on live visuals for a multimedia play, “The Mall Land,” at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City, and the multimedia play, “Dust,” performed at the HEREarts Center in New York City.

Their animated short film, “Maddy in the Never Ending Room” was exhibited at the “Random House Inc. Art Show” in New York City in 2008. Their short film: “Reason in the Mirror” was exhibited at The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio in 2001. Rod Sanchez’s paintings have been exhibited at various shows in New York City, such as: (Arts NYC Exhibition, 2011, 2012, 2013), (Our Silent Canvas Exhibition, 2011), (Halcyon Gallery, 2011), (Lyons Wier Gallery, 2010), (Niagara Gallery, 2010), (Random House Inc. Art Show, 2007, 2008), Parsons Gallery, 2012), as well as exhibited in Columbus, Ohio, at: (Exposures Gallery, 1998, 1999, 2000), and (The Wexner Center for the Arts, 2001).

The twins are currently working on their next audio/visual project, “Hand of Fate,” expected to be released this Spring 2015.

ROD SÁNCHEZ is an award-winning Graphic Designer & Illustrator. He received two Silver Design Awards by The Create Design Awards for the illustration and design of the "Random House Children's Books Fall 2008 Catalog Cover," and the sell-in brochure for "Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go." These awards were published in the 2008 Nov. + Dec. issue of Create Magazine. He is currently a Senior Graphic Designer at Scholastic Inc. with 10 years of experience in Video Production, Graphic Design, Illustration, & Motion Graphic Design in a wide variety of major digital and print marketing advertising campaigns for such entities as: Scholastic Inc., Random House Inc., Baruch College, Nickelodeon, Disney/Pixar, The Weather Channel, & Liz Claiborne. Rod Sánchez holds a Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Design & Technology from Parsons The New School for Design, and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Visual Communication Design from the Ohio State University.

RAÚL SÁNCHEZ is an award-winning journalist, professor, and creative writer. He is a full-time faculty member, who teaches writing and speech in the School of Professional Studies at New York University. He received the Paula Gonzales Latino Award for his Oxford University Essay, “Equality with Difference.” His writings have appeared in such publications as opendemocracy.net, the Dayton Daily News, ehow.com, Whispering Willows Mystery Magazine and his professional writing experience includes being a writing consultant for such companies as Barnes & Noble Publishing and PBS. He received the Denman Award for his thesis in music and creative writing at Ohio State University “Breaking Thought’s Sound Barrier: a thesis in a dichotomy of expression.” Raúl Sánchez holds a Masters of the Arts (MA) degree in Social Thought with a journalism concentration in Cultural Criticism and Reporting from New York University, in addition to a Bachelor of the Arts (BA) in English Language and Literature from Ohio State University.

QUICK LINKS
Video, Music & Social Media:
Vevo: http://www.vevo.com/watch/sanchez-2winz/Winged-Painter-%28RAINN-Benefit%29/QMGR31403173
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y3e1o0ANH0
Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/sanchez-2winz
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sanchez-2winz/380270408681008
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/over-white-mountains-single/id692031901

WEBSITES
www.sanchez2winz.com
www.rodsanchez.com