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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    I’m giving a public talk about my work and some other radical stuff!

    OCADU, 100 McCaul Street, ROOM 284
    WED 25 APRIL, 130 - 230

    I’d love it so much if you’d come to hear me blab on the topics I am most passionate about— Independent and Alternative Forms of Publishing, Community Engagement and Relational Aesthetics, The Place of Book Arts within Contemporary Art Practice, and my own work as a book maker, artist, writer and educator.

    I’ll speak a bit about recent publications, Unspent Love and Sword of my Mouth, as well as my work with public installation and animation. And I’m really excited to share some initial work on two new projects— Blood and Blunder (a graphic novel about my father’s childhood as an itinerant puppeteer) and Time Loops (a pretty amorphous new project that uses hyperbolic crochet to investigate the passage of time).

    If you like funny stories, I’m gunna tella coupla whoppers!

    (via fuckyeahbookarts)

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