SHANNON FINLEY

SHANNON FINLEY

2 FEBRUARY - 11 MARCH 2023
MILES MCENERY GALLERY IS PLEASED TO PRESENT AN EXHIBITION OF RECENT PAINTINGS BY SHANNON FINLEY. THE ARTIST'S SECOND SOLO EXHIBITION WITH THE GALLERY OPENS 2 FEBRUARY AT 511 WEST 22ND STREET AND WILL REMAIN ON VIEW THROUGH 11 MARCH. ACCOMPANYING THE EXHIBITION IS A FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FEATURING AN ESSAY BY Camila McHugh.
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New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Shannon Finley,’ 2 February - 11 March 2023
Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
SHANNON FINLEY

Mind Expander, 2022

Acrylic on linen

78 3/4 x 63 inches

200 x 160 cm
SHANNON FINLEY

Aftermathematics, 2022

Acrylic on linen

47 1/4 x 70 7/8 inches

120 x 180 cm
"...these works’ bright sheens and fractured planes may have less to bear on supernatural reckoning, than on the everyday navigating—the continuous decorating, if you will—that is daily life. Time spent doing one thing or another, as meaningful or meaningless as it may be, is rife with both delight and despair. These works have a capaciousness, as if Finley were attempting to fit as much information as possible on the canvas. As hard-edged shapes intersect and overlap in a contest of color, each fragment in each composition appears essential to its cacophonous whole.”

- Camila McHugh in "Decorated Void"
SHANNON FINLEY

Dragonaut, 2022

Acrylic on linen

47 1/4 x 70 7/8 inches

120 x 180 cm
- Shannon FInley
  Flicker, 2022
  Acrylic on linen
  15 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches
  40 x 32 cm
- Shannon Finley
  Inner Space, 2022
  Acrylic on linen
  15 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches
  40 x 32 cm
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Shannon Finley studio, 2022, Berlin, Germany
"Until the painting is finished, every aspect of its constellation could change, and this sense of shifting motion remains palpable in the work. His process also drives a relationship between form and color that oscillates between confrontation and symbiosis.”

- Camila McHugh in "Decorated Void"
SHANNON FINLEY

Kepler's Dream II, 2022

Acrylic on linen

59 x 47 1/4 inches

150 x 120 cm
SHANNON FINLEY

Known Unknowns, 2022

Acrylic on linen

47 1/4 x 70 7/8 inches

120 x 180 cm
SHANNON FINLEY

Levitation Session, 2022

Acrylic on linen

59 x 47 1/4 inches

150 x 120 cm
Shannon Finley studio, 2022, Berlin, Germany
"Beneath this physical understanding of inflection lurks the way in which meaning inflects material. Shannon Finley’s paintings offer themselves up as sounding boards, ready to bounce off the inflection of connotation, association, and projection inherent in putting abstract painting into language. They can stand on their own."

- Camila McHugh in "Decorated Void"
SHANNON FINLEY

Spacehopper, 2022

Acrylic on linen

59 x 47 1/4 inches

150 x 120 cm
SHANNON FINLEY

The Pyrocene, 2022

Acrylic on linen

59 x 47 1/4 inches

150 x 120 cm
SHANNON FINLEY

Tuned Realities, 2022

Acrylic on linen

15 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches

40 x 32 cm

"[These works] have processed the artist’s experience of life into an abstract form and can become a site of processing for their viewers, too...whether you see fertile ground for musings on ornament, the neons of acrylic nails, the glint of car paint, Bauhaus forms, transcendental triangles, or any other reshuffling of histories of abstraction."

- Camila McHugh in "Decorated Void"
SHANNON FINLEY

Vector Quest, 2022

Acrylic on linen

27 1/2 x 39 3/8 inches

70 x 100 cm
SHANNON FINLEY

Witcher, 2022

Acrylic on linen

15 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches

40 x 32 cm

“Crucially, you will also see yourself as the sheen of the paintings are almost reflective, occasionally catching the viewer in their surface. While their compositions are tight—verging on resolution—they maintain an openness. Take it as an invitation to enter."

- Camila McHugh in "Decorated Void"
Shannon Finley in his studio, 2022, Berlin, Germany

Shannon Finley (b. 1974, Ontario, Canada) studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada and The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Arts and Science, New York, NY.

Finley has been the subject of solo exhibitions most recently at Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany (forthcoming); Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany; Kunthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, Germany; Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL; Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX; Culture Circle Gallery, Hamburg, Germany; Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA; Vladimir Restoin Roitfield, New York, NY; Maruani and Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; and Bischoff Weiss Gallery, London, United Kingdom.

His work has been included in group exhibitions at international institutions including the Khyber Center for the Arts, Halifax, Canada; Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, Greece; Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany; Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany; Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany; Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen, Germany; Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic; Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken, Germany; Städtische Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck, Germany; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; White Columns, New York, NY; and the Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan.

The artist lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
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- Shannon Finley
  Vector Quest, 2022
  Acrylic on linen
  27 1/2 x 39 3/8 inches
  70 x 100 cm
- Shannon Finley
  Witcher, 2022
  Acrylic on linen
  15 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches
  40 x 32 cm
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SHANNON FINLEY

2 FEBRUARY - 11 MARCH 2023