Shanna Waddell "Misshapen Chaos of Well-seeming Forms!"
Thomas Erben Gallery
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Thomas Erben presents the first solo show of American painter Shanna Waddell (b. 1981, Long Beach, CA; lives and works in Philadelphia). “Misshapen Chaos of Well-seeming Forms” titles a group of new paintings the artist created after receiving her MFA from Tyler School of Art, May 2010.
Playing impasto against splattered veils and contrasting urban colors with a new age palette, these works distort material flatness into a warped spatiality and combine figuration with abstract symbols and uninhibited brushwork, holding together a spectrum of sensibilities that precipitates early American modernism into an apocalyptic, prophetic hyperbole and personal vision.
[Image: Shanna Waddell 2010 "Harold Camping-false Prophet" Oil on canvas 76 x 96 in.]
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from February 17, 2011 to March 19, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-02-17 from 18:00 to 20:30