 Shawn Marshall stills Friday April 18 - June 8, 2025 reception and conversation with the artist Sunday May 18, 2-5 pm conversation at 3:30 pm Shawn Marshall's narrative vocabulary in stills comes first from her life experience in the male-dominated field of architecture. Her Christian imagery is equally visceral, exposed and contested. Marshall writes: As far as the religious aspects in my work — I'm both a preacher's daughter and a missionary kid. My parents moved our family overseas when I was 9 months old. We lived in Cyprus until the Turkish bombed it. We lost most of our things. When we moved to Beirut, Lebanon, the civil war started not long after. We endured bombs and rocket launches until we evacuated in 1975. We moved back to the US when I was almost 8, and my dad later became the head of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. Religion has played a big role in my life but often not in good ways. I don't practice any religion but do consider myself deeply spiritual - continually searching for meaning and resolve. Many of these pieces reflect my feelings about the confines of the Christian religion and meanings placed on religious iconography. The pieces with women in those spaces are a reaction against the role women are expected to have in the church. resume above: Behind these Walls 8 x 8" collage below: Passage 18 x 18" collage and acrylic paint on panel  |
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