Brian Shannon
I am a printmaker and love to make etchings in my studio in the Pearl District of Portland.
During the various Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020 and 2021, I began a series of mixed media drawings at home on the kitchen table. I have a collection of seedpods and corals and also gathered natural objects growing in my yard as my subject. I made sketches of these forms and added wild color combinations inspired by all the coronavirus cell images repeatedly shown in the media and on the internet. I titled the work “Disperse Series”.
Disperse 3, mixed media on Stonehenge paper, 11" x 14", 2021
Disperse 4, mixed media on Stonehenge paper, 11" x 14", 2021
Disperse 5, mixed media on Stonehenge paper, 11" x 14", 2021
Disperse 2, mixed media on Stonehenge paper, 11" x 14", 2021
Disperse 6, mixed media on Stonehenge paper, 11" x 14", 2021
Disperse 7, mixed media on Stonehenge paper, 11" x 14", 2021
Disperse 8, mixed media on Stonehenge paper, 11" x 14", 2021
Disperse 1, mixed media on BFK Rives paper, 8" x 12", 2020
Brian Shannon is an Artist and Educator living in Portland, Oregon and teaches Drawing and Printmaking in the Art Department at Clark College. Brian was a long-time Professor and Head of Foundations teaching and mentoring at Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Oregon in the Drawing and Painting, Book and Print Departments until the college closed in 2019.
Brian’s work combines the printmaking mediums of intaglio, lithography and relief as well as mixed media sculpture. Brian holds an
MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and a
BFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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