Shannon Bool

So my next artist does a variety of styles. Shannon Bool has done artworks ranging from collage-style pieces of various sizes, to installation pieces. And I want to look at a little bit of everything. 

Casino Runner

 Like I said, she's dabbled in installation art. This piece, entitled "Casino Runner,"is from her exhibition, "Patterns of Emancipation." According to the Daniel Faria Gallery's site, the focus of the works in this exhibition is "[exploring] the need to obtain freedom from prescribed spaces." This applies both to the actual space that the pieces occupy (notice how the Casino Runner is not confined to the wall, but runs onto the floor, as well), and to the concepts behind the pieces. According to the Daniel Faria Gallery's site, Bool took patterns and things associated with certain groups and periods and displayed them in different way. 

 

The Serpent Heart

In addition to the installation-like pieces, another art style that Bool likes a lot is the photogram. According to the Made In Germany Zwei site, she is "intensely interested in the potentials of photograms." The site says she has figured out different methods and techniques to get the effects she desires in her pieces. This piece to the left is one of her photograms. It's called "The Serpent Heart." I honestly am not sure what it means/signifies. There seem to be root-like things, that could also look like snakes, coming from the woman in the center. 

She's also worked on projects with other artists. In the below piece, entitled "Space Revised," she and other artists, such as Tomas Downes, Giles Round, Andrew Mealor, and Karl Orton, created this piece. According to the Camberwell College of Arts webpage, this piece is part of a larger exhibit that was "combining different previously used wallpapers from its former spaces, in form of a wall-based collage."

Space Revised

Her pieces interest me, especially her collages. I mean, even her photograms could be considered collages, in a way, since they combine different images/things in one piece to convey a meaning. I'm always in awe of how much depth artists put into their pieces; not only are the pieces just aesthetically pleasing and intriguing, but then there are such messages behind the pieces! Bool certainly demonstrates this in her works.

-Maria

http://danielfariagallery.com/exhibitions/shannon-bool-patterns-of-emancipation

http://www.madeingermanyzwei.de/en/Artists/Shannon-Bool

http://newsevents.arts.ac.uk/event/3d-2d-3d-2d/