A Chatham-based artist is sharing the spotlight on the small screen.
Elizabeth Downey Sunnen has a piece of her art featured on the set of a new NBC sitcom, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.
It all started several years ago when a BC gallery featured some of Downey Sunnnen’s work in an exhibit, and one of the pieces was picked up by a local production company to help dress the set of a show they were working on.
She says it’s a surreal experience to see your own work on TV.
“It was beautiful that they bought the piece because at first they just rented it,” Downey Sunnen says. “I would like to believe this will become something extraordinary, like the playlist. Even if it doesn’t, this is so incredible for me, this is so out of anything I’d even considered as a possibility coming from rural Canada. What do you mean my stuff’s in a TV show, are you kidding me?”
While it may not get a lot of public attention, Downey Sunnen says art often helps to define a character.
“There are pieces of art that you don’t really even consider that somebody random made it, they’re just part of the set and part of those characters, and the more you watch the show, the more it becomes almost an extension of who (they) are.”
Downey Sunnen’s piece can be seen in the first few minutes of the trailer, featured on the entrance wall of one character’s apartment.
The first episode of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is now streaming online on NBC.
