In 2023, I began a new series of work with a performance / installation featuring two long-time, 15 year-old friends. Continuing a tradition since they were aged six, they transformed toys and everyday materials into the stuff of their own play-acting. The girls created a loose fable, wearing costumes I’d made.
I draw and weave the figures, movement, tension and color from those performative photographic images into 2-D and 3-D forms that recall and reinterpret fabric and dress as well as the influence of our digital age on visual world processing.
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Shannon Curry Hartmann lives and works in New York City.
“Maison Encore” Whistle, New York City, September, 2025
“Brunettes Series” Miami Art Fridge Fair, Miami, Florida, December, 2024
“Making Do” Arts Council of Princeton, New Jersey, April, 2024
“Home Again” Gallery 220, New York City, May, 2023
“Figure / Ground” Gallery 220, New York City, December, 2022
SCOPE Art Fair w/CollectiCo curatorial project, New York City, March, 2013
CollectiCo pop-up gallery curatorial project, New York City, October – December, 2012
First Night Boston Outdoor Sculpture Show, Boston Common, Massachusetts, December, 2006 - January, 2007
StoryCorps Family Participant, First Ground Zero Memorial, WTC PATH Station, New York, 2005 (Time Out New York, pg. 12, July 14-20, 2005)
“Comets in Clothing” The Revolving Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, 2000
Best of Show, Chesterwood Juried Sculpture Show, Stockbridge, MA, 2000
Outdoor Sculpture Show, Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA, 1999