Recent
Images from the Group Show, (in)visible entanglements, 2024 at Galerie Intershop, Leipzig.
L-R: Facsimile, 2024 (Embroidery, Found Objects) and Einertstraße 3, 2024 (Mixed Media on Paper)
Was ist das? (2022)
Element Ost, Leipzig, Germany
The understanding desired by the question Was ist das? derives from a curiosity about the ad-hoc piles of personal belongings that often accumulate on street corners, sidewalks, and window sills throughout the neighborhoods of Leipzig.
This buffet of lost and found items can be seen as a negotiation between public space and the community. The broken pieces and, rarely, functional items, gathered in awkward heaps and piles, are often difficult to discern or name. While some piles of objects attract a crowd, others linger upon the sidewalk abandoned until they blow down the sidewalk or are broken further. These remnants become a microcosm of social constructions. Layers of generosity, humility, laziness, playfulness, consumerism, waste, confusion, and fragility stack up in a precarious and messy display.
A Series of Contingencies (2021)
Harmony Hall Arts Center, Fort Washington, MD
We traverse our days through a series of contingencies and decisions. As fragmented as life can be, how does one tie it all together? As wayfarers tracing the path, one’s body is changing, but constant. Until….it is not. This installation offers visual metaphors through which to explore these ideas.
“Through immersive and richly textured hand-woven nets that span the categories of sculpture and textiles as they expand across space or collapse into dense forms, Shannon Brinkley evokes layer upon layer of meaning within the context of our highly networked contemporary existence.”
Thesis Talk (2021)
MFA in Studio Art, Maryland Institute College of Art
Undo II (2021)
VisArts Gallery, Rockville, MD
Vacancy resonates from a functionless net, which has the potential to hold, bind, filter, release, and collapse. Intertwined knots and loops create intervals of space from repurposed fibers, discarded clothing and an unravelled net. The body is called into question by the net and the space it interrupts within its surroundings. These artworks are a play upon what we seek to remember.
Undo I (2020-2021)
Washington, D.C., USA + Berlin, Germany
The shifting of one’s body, in both public and private space, is called into question by the commanding scale of the net. The remnants of light and matter, trapped within the net and its surroundings hint at the residue of daily life, including not just what is seen, but what is left to be imagined.
Drift (2019)
“Left Space” (Group Exhibition at 1100 Wicomico Ave.), Baltimore, MD
Sifted through the net and measured to match my body weight, white bleached flour rests in a precarious balance within the cotton lattice of a hammock. This work references the practicality and futility inherent in daily life. As I explore the idea of labor, effort, and repetition, a human presence encircles the fundamental concerns that make up our day-to-day existence: How much space do we take up? Who will notice when we’re gone? How do we measure life?