Breanna Shanahan

My two-dimensional and sculptural works intertwine in my practice as I engage with the hand-made and machine-made as players in the work's outcome. Many projects push the capacities of a machine’s intended function, allowing for a body of work that is constantly adapting to new technologies and methods of trace. I seek to investigate, research and create works that engage in cutting edge outputs, rooting works in the ‘object’. These works play with and push installation to allow for new experiences within the white cube. 

In my practice I keep up a Daily Art Practice that seeks meaning in work after and during creation. This approach of research creation poses the question: What is it to produce everyday or on smaller scales? What do we create for? How can constraints of time and materiality, along with engagement with others steer ideas and forms? I seek to take part in conversations outside my singular experience and recognize how the roles we play with others create unique versions of ourselves. Working off of basic understandings in the field of social psychology, projects reimagine ‘relation’ in visible forms, being as receptive and impacted by those they are created around and with as we are in impacted in human societies.