I draw and weave figures, movement, tension and color from a series of performative photographic images into 2-D and 3-D forms. This work recalls and reinterprets fabric and dress as well as the influence of our digital age on processing the visual world. The act of weaving creates a closeness where these two realities of our human experience co-exist.
In 2023, I initiated the series with a performance / installation featuring two long-time, 15 year-old friends. Continuing a practice begun at age six, they transformed toys and everyday materials into the stuff of their own play-acting. The girls created tableaus, wearing costumes I’d made.
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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