Breanna Shanahan
Green Prescriptions and other colours
amid boundaries and blades of grass
May 5th - 28th, 2023.
Opening reception May 5th from 5-8pm.
Green Prescriptions and other Colours; amid boundaries and blades of grass is a development of many three-minute contemplations, feelings, and exchanges that took place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Picking up on the return to the garden at peak points of the pandemic, mixed feelings around restrictions, and an overwhelming awareness of anthropogenic excess; these works seek to reflect on shared experiences that now in a fast-pace post-pandemic society, we are slowly beginning to forget.
During Covid-19, Shanahan adapted her practice to work within the constraints of the domestic space when her sculpture studio and art community was forced to lock down. She sought to process shared experiences while simultaneously keep connection to a network of artists in very isolating times. Over Zoom artists would meet and talk about the pandemic, financial instabilities, climate anxieties and artistic endeavours. Together and with the help of the virtual, they would create works and snippets from the day which would be painted, drawn or sculpted in short three-minute creations, stacked to produce a series of small works that catalogued memories.
Breanna Shanahan (she/her/they) is a recent resident of the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississauga's (known to some as Hamilton) Shanahan received an MFA at Concordia University in 2019, her BA. and Dip. FA from UTM and Sheridan College's joint Art and Art History Program in 2014. Shanahan is one of the newest members of the Assembly Gallery artist collective and is a longstanding member of the Montreal based artist collective QO (Quite Ourselves) Her works have been exhibited in Italy, China, Austria, the United States of America and in Canada. Shanahan teaches Sculpture and Drawing courses across Canada at multiple post-secondary and community institutions.
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