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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Priority One on this year’s trip was to visit MASS MoCA and see Oh, Canada. It did not disappoint. North Adams MA is an absolutely amazing little town.
We stayed in the city-run Historic Valley Campgrounds where we had campfires and swam in mountain lakes and then WALKED INTO TOWN to see one of the country’s best Contemporary Art Museums. Real Life!!
AND we discovered the most darling bookshop— GJ Askins at the Eclipse Mill. Piles and Piles of volumes covering every surface of a former residential space in an old mill. It was so wonderful.
AND we stumbled into PRESS, a letterpress gallery and print shop run by the amazing Melanie Mowinski— a prof at Massachusetts Liberal Arts College who, like me, was weary of waiting at the Institutional Baggage Claim and decided to start a letterpress studio her own damn self! (well, with the help of some beautiful people it seems) I instantly adored her and her project!
This video was made at an old warehouse which was almost maybe going to be an artist residency, until the roof caved in. The real roof. Right in. Oops.
North Adams, I LOVE YOU!! I’m ready for BFF. Call me.
