shannon gerard
My visual art practice operates across several platforms and media. I write, draw and publish in a variety of forms including on-line comics, periodical illustrations, trade-paperback graphic fiction, and self-published artist’s books and multiples. Thematically I am very curious about issues such as magic, hope, faith and human frailty. I also produce large-scale installations that incorporate stop-motion animations and digital print, and spend at least 50% of my waking life crocheting soft sculptures.
A lot of my work employs play as a research strategy. Areas of interest include the mindset of the collector, the sculptural and performative possibilities suggested by books and book-objects, the conceptual space that books occupy beyond the presentation of texts and images, and how the social position of works (in other words, where we tend to encounter particular modes of art) mediates how we become engaged as readers/viewers.
I am also really getting into marionettes.
I love to work with small gallery shops and retailers! If you are interested in carrying my crochet work or books, please contact me via email (shannon AT shannongerard DOT org, or click the envelope icon below) for wholesale prices and policies.
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- UNSPENT LOVE
- BLOOD & THUNDER
- plants you can't kill
- BOOBS & DINKS
- PLAYING DOCTOR
- PLUSHTACHE
- anatomical hearts
- crocheted coral reef
- SWORD of MY MOUTH
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BLOOD & THUNDER
It’s a dream still. But maybe all good things begin with a dream.
My father spent the first nine years of his life as an itinerant puppeteer, traveling California in a van with his parents and brother, performing marionette theatre at State Fairs and elementary schools.
In the summer of 2010, I took a tentative road trip along the west coast to start research for a book and other projects related to this family history. The trip was difficult and weird and wonderful and broke something open within me.
There is also a pronounced feeling of restlessness about home.
This year I want to go on the road again, for longer, in a small cabin-van-dream-world to see what I can yet make of my life and to consider where my anxieties, longing and stories can find expression through performance, art making, and adventure.
Follow the project at http://bloodandblunder.tumblr.com/
