Shawne Major at Irvine Contemporary, April 11, 2009 - June 16, 2009

Irvine Contemporary is pleased to announce the first Washington, DC solo exhibition of Shawne Major, "Love Calls Us To the Things of This World." Shawne Major's exciting post-pop, found-object tapestries were recently exhibited in the Prospect.1 New Orleans Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron. "Love Calls Us To the Things of This World" presents the artist's love of materials and her creative impulse to fashion objects of arresting wonder and beauty from seemingly mundane objects.

Equally conversant in the main traditions of assemblage art since early modernism and the folk art traditions of the American South, Shawne Major creates works that seem like magical spaces created from the artists re-enchantment of objects and materials from disposable production. Unlike quilts and tapestries from either folk art or high craft traditions, her works are remix tableaux with a three-dimensional materiality. No surface, but a density of objects. Each work is a material record of the artists process, revealing the sewn and stitched layers of its own making.
http://irvinecontemporary.com/showArtist.php?artistID=185

Catalogue available published by Irvine Contemporary with essay by Martin Irvine.

Video by Dissident Display

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Gorgeous exhibit, Shawne!