Name/Title
Farnsworth SamplerEntry/Object ID
2020.05.01Description
Shannon Bool (b.1972) is a Canadian artist from Comox, British Columbia. She currently lives and works out of Berlin, Germany. Bool attended the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Cooper Union, New York, and graduated from Staedelschule, Frankfurt (2004).
Bool's practice is based on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's concept of the "lived body," a term asserting that bodily experience produces both objective reality and subjective identity in a reciprocal manner. The artist uses this framework to rethink and reshape how artistic techniques and processes are produced and adapted. Working primarily in tapestries, silk paintings, collages, sculptures, photograms and installations, Bool employs atypical technical processes to critique Modernism and culture. Her art often looks at undiscussed aesthetic and cultural influences in art and architecture and displays them in novel ways, such as recreating the complex textiles that appear in the flat backgrounds of European Renaissance paintings or delicately carpeting rigid architectural blueprints.
Currently, Bool is a professor of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz, Germany. Her works can be found in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Metropolitan Museum New York, LBBW Collection, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Collection of the Federal Estate of Germany, Lenbachhaus Munich, and The National Gallery of Canada.Artwork Details
Medium
silkscreen, cotton embroidery on hand-dyed silkDimensions
Height
32.3 cmWidth
44.7 cm