September 17, 2017

Alix Anne Shaw thinks of their work as a process of weirding space in order to challenge our predominant modes of encounter. Shaw is interested in our encounters with the natural environment and in the refuse of our industrial existence. The points at which we touch the natural world are among our most mundane and intimate; redemptive and damaging. Shaw wants to encourage closer consideration of the traces that remain.

Shaw variously vies for, invites, demands, and confronts the attention of the viewer by creating small acts of lyricism, a reconsideration of the objects one takes for granted. Co-opting, disrupting, destabilizing, opposing, holding forth, building small fires of meaning and protest in the cracks.

Alix Anne Shaw is a Chicago-based visual artist and poet. Her sculptures and installations have been exhibited at galleries including Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago; AS220 Project Space, Providence; and Kriti Gallery, Varanasi, India; among others. Her public works include Findings, a permanent installation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Shaw is the author of two poetry collections.

Artist Website:
Alix Anne Shaw