THIS MACHINE KILLS FASHIONISTAS is a blog that...

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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Kyle Murray - Kyle's Letter to Art

THIS MACHINE KILLS FASHIONISTAS is a blog that collects all the best submissions from my students at OCAD University. It was started in a course titled Text & Image in 2011. The thoughtful, often moving responses to course assignments were too good to keep inside the classroom and inspired me to begin sharing works and ideas generated in all of my classes. Students, RTW!

The attached audio file is a song written and performed by Kyle Murray in response to the challenge of writing a letter to Art.

The blog title was inspired by Woody Guthrie’s famous warning:
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