Shawne Major at Irvine Contemporary

Shawne Major: Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
Mixed Media Tapestries

April 11 to May 30, 2009
Video Interview with Shawne Major at Irvine Contemporary, April 2009

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Shawne Major
To May 30 at Irvine Contemporary
By Maura Judkis, Washington City Paper

Major fills her cloth with sewn-on plastic knickknacks, including green Army men, Lego pieces, stuffed animals, tiaras, rubber duckies, and tiny traffic cones.

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IRVINE CONTEMPORARY
1412 14th Street NW
Washington DC 20005
202.332.8767

Shawne Major: Love Calls Us to the Things of This World

April 11 to May 16, 2009

Opening Reception and Catalog Launch with the Artist:

Saturday, April 11, 6-8PM

Shawne Major's exciting post-pop, found-object assemblage works 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.

Shawne Major’s compositions are about the human condition at our historical moment, about art making as still connected to ritual, fetish, the handmade object, and the struggle with chaos, about answering the volumes of discarded consumerist objects with a personal levee against the flow. Her works are, finally, new expressions of the great inexhaustible American potential for democratic subversion just when we need it the most.

Catalog published by Irvine Contemporary | Exhibition Info

Irvine Contemporary | 1412 14th Street NW | Washington, DC 202-332-8767