Drawlings

Abby Portner
Born	Abigail Portner
Nationality	American
Education	Parsons The New School for Design
Known for	drawing, album art, music video, music
Notable work	Sung Tongs artwork, Down There artwork, In the Flowers video, Lucky 1 video
Website	Abby Portner Blogspot

Drawlings
Origin	Baltimore, Maryland
Instruments	Sampler, Keyboard, Drums
Years active	2006 – present
Labels	Paw Tracks
Associated acts	Rings, Hex Message, Among Natives
Website	Drawlings MySpace

Abigail Portner is a visual artist, designer, music video director and musician in the bands Rings and Hex Message and solo under the name Drawlings. She lives and works in West Hollywood, California.

Abby Portner's work is closely connected to her friends and especially to her brother David Portner's band Animal Collective. She started to make tour posters when they were still in High School together in Baltimore, Maryland. She later moved to New York City to attend Parsons School for Design, but continued to make record covers and still designs shirts, tour posters and merchandise for the band. For Animal Collective's album Merriweather Post Pavilion, she contributed a music video for the song In the Flowers. In the summer of 2010 she built a live set for two Animal Collective shows in Prospect Park in New York City that contained large scale paintings and sculptures of jellyfish, tiki men, moving sharks and shooting water. The work was handmade by Portner in small parts with the help of friends in a working space in Bushwick, New York City, and put together on stage.

Besides drawing for Animal Collective, Portner worked on a wide range of visual art projects, including Tattoo designing and Cartoons. In the end of 2008 she designed skateboards for the Ohio-based brand Alien Workshop. In mid-2010 Portner worked as a guest artist for the animated series The Velvet Mouse Show.

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