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SHANNON FINLEY: Cascade

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1 April - 8 May 2021
  • Shannon Finley

     Cascade

    1 April - 8 May 2021

  • Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Shannon Finley: Cascade," 1 April - 8 May 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Shannon Finley: Cascade," 1 April - 8 May 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Shannon Finley: Cascade," 1 April - 8 May 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Shannon Finley: Cascade," 1 April - 8 May 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Shannon Finley: Cascade," 1 April - 8 May 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Shannon Finley: Cascade," 1 April - 8 May 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Shannon Finley: Cascade," 1 April - 8 May 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Shannon Finley: Cascade," 1 April - 8 May 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Shannon Finley: Cascade," 1 April - 8 May 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Shannon Finley: Cascade," 1 April - 8 May 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Shannon Finley: Cascade," 1 April - 8 May 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Shannon Finley: Cascade," 1 April - 8 May 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Shannon Finley: Cascade," 1 April - 8 May 2021.

    • Shannon Finley Castle Mind, 2021 Acrylic on linen 29 1/2 x 23 5/8 inches 75 x 60 cm
      Shannon Finley
      Castle Mind, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      29 1/2 x 23 5/8 inches
      75 x 60 cm
    • Shannon Finley Cosmic Rays, 2021 Acrylic on linen 29 1/2 x 23 5/8 inches 75 x 60 cm
      Shannon Finley
      Cosmic Rays, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      29 1/2 x 23 5/8 inches
      75 x 60 cm
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  • 'Deep Web, among the largest of his recent works (approximately 8 by 6 feet), is an intricate, hyperactive composition composed...

    SHANNON FINLEY

    Deep Web, 2021

    Acrylic on linen

    94 1/2 x 78 3/4 inches

    240 x 200 cm

    "Deep Web, among the largest of his recent works (approximately 8 by 6 feet), is an intricate, hyperactive composition composed of palimpsests of vivid hard-edge forms that crash and collide on the surface; it has the visual impact of a shattered glass wall. Occasionally, the artist allows smears and smudges of contrasting hues—not quite gestural markings—to disrupt the purity of the geometric units, especially along the edges of the canvas. These subtle interventions of painterly panache serve to further intensify the composition’s already energized surface."

    - David Ebony, excerpt from “Shannon Finley’s Hypnagogic Brainscapes”
  • Shannon Finley Studio, 2021, Berlin, Germany
    Shannon Finley Studio, 2021, Berlin, Germany

    Shannon Finley Studio, 2021, Berlin, Germany

    • Shannon Finley Lightfall, 2021 Acrylic on linen 78 3/4 x 63 inches 200 x 160 cm
      Shannon Finley
      Lightfall, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      78 3/4 x 63 inches
      200 x 160 cm
    • Shannon Finley Matrix, 2021 Acrylic on linen 47 1/4 x 39 3/8 inches 120 x 100 cm
      Shannon Finley
      Matrix, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      47 1/4 x 39 3/8 inches
      120 x 100 cm
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  • "Works such as Lightfall and Matrix, featuring orderly rows of small, uniform diamond shapes and triangles, activated by dazzling shifts in color and translucence, appear to harbor an esoteric, hermetic logic. Here, alternating—but rarely exactly repeated—sequences of rectangles in black, silver, green, blue, orange, and red (plus myriad variants of those tones) form a kind of rhythmical visual vocabulary."

     

    - David Ebony, excerpt from “Shannon Finley’s Hypnagogic Brainscapes”

    • Shannon Finley Orbit Walker, 2021 Acrylic on linen 47 1/4 x 70 7/8 inches 120 x 180 cm
      Shannon Finley
      Orbit Walker, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      47 1/4 x 70 7/8 inches
      120 x 180 cm
    • Shannon Finley Over Simulation, 2021 Acrylic on linen 78 3/4 x 63 inches 200 x 160 cm
      Shannon Finley
      Over Simulation, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      78 3/4 x 63 inches
      200 x 160 cm
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  • Shannon Finley Studio, 2021, Berlin, Germany
    Shannon Finley Studio, 2021, Berlin, Germany
    Shannon Finley Studio, 2021, Berlin, Germany

    Shannon Finley Studio, 2021, Berlin, Germany

  • 'Finley alludes to interstellar space in works such as Cosmic Rays, Orbit Walker, Subspace, and Pathfinder. These canvases all feature...

    SHANNON FINLEY

    Pathfinder, 2021

    Acrylic on linen

    78 3/4 x 63 inches

    200 x 160 cm

     

     

     

    "Finley alludes to interstellar space in works such as Cosmic Rays, Orbit Walker, Subspace, and Pathfinder. These canvases all feature circular shapes and semi- circular disks that conjure images of celestial orbs—the movement of the stars and the planets, and phases of circumnavigating moons. In Pathfinder, eight wide, vertical bands of equal width, but in an array of translucent colors, function as a kind of armature for circular forms. Along these bands, the round and elongated circular shapes appear to ascend or descend in rhythmic patterns."

     

    - David Ebony, excerpt from “Shannon Finley’s Hypnagogic Brainscapes"

    • Shannon Finley Spirit Host, 2021 Acrylic on linen 78 3/4 x 63 inches 200 x 160 cm
      Shannon Finley
      Spirit Host, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      78 3/4 x 63 inches
      200 x 160 cm
    • Shannon Finley Subspace, 2021 Acrylic on linen 78 3/4 x 63 inches 200 x 160 cm
      Shannon Finley
      Subspace, 2021
      Acrylic on linen
      78 3/4 x 63 inches
      200 x 160 cm
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  • SHANNON FINLEY (b. 1974, Ontario, Canada) studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada and The...

    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.

     

    Recent solo exhibitions include “Rupprecht Geiger | Shannon Finley: Licht, Farbe, Raum,” Kunthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, Germany; "Cascade," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “End of Line,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL; “Convergence,” Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany; “INTERFERENCE,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL; Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX; “Future Shock,” Culture Circle Gallery, Hamburg, Germany; Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany; “Paintings for the Future,”Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA; Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA, Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium and “Shannon Finley and Rupprecht Geiger,” Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany.

     

    Recent group exhibitions include “Shall we go, you and I while we can,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL; “Tomorrow’s Dream,” Neuer Essener, Kunstverein, Essen, Germany; “40 Years Walter Storms Galerie 1977-2017,” Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany; “Pioneer Lust,” Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX; “Colouring the Edge,” 3812 Gallery, Hong Kong; “Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection,” Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; “Appropinquation,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL; “5 years schellingstr. 48,” Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany; “ Shifting Optics,” Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands; “White is the Warmest Color,” Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

     

    Finley lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

     

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