Shannon Donovan: Sculpture and Installations
Installations Doily Queen Pearly King Birthday Party Water Lily 2 Duet Duet (side view) Cornflower Cornflower (side view) 100 Ws Miss Lady Orange Hubcap Orange Hubcap (detail) Hibiscus Hubcap Hibiscus Hubcap Hibiscus Hubcap (detail) Toile Hubcap Toile Hubcap (detail) Yellow Hubcap Yellow Hubcap (detail)
My main interest is in creating pseudo-domestic environments that ask us to think about décor as an expression of social status and taste. These environments are created from diverse media, ranging from found and altered furniture to original ceramic objects, and blend traditional decorative motifs with ubiquitous objects from the urban landscape and the detritus of modern Western life. The resulting work promotes interplay between nature and artifice, blurs the lines of exterior and interior space and combines nature’s disorder with domestic order, and suggests that exuberant excess trumps conventional ideas regarding good taste.