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James
Harris Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of drawings
by Shaun O'Dell. The artist creates intricate, highly coded drawings,
the elements which recall the mythology of the American frontier
and the spirit of conquest evoked by the nineteenth -century expansionist
doctrine of Manifest Destiny. Such themes have been distilled into
tightly honed iconography of crisply rendered glyph-like forms.
The motifs in O'Dell's vocabulary included log cabins, three masted
ships, peregrine falcons and the head of Puritan pilgrims or Daniel
Boone-esque frontiersmen. These elements tend to suggest either
the migratory movements of people and creatures or the staked claims
of early homesteaders. Above all, O'Dell explores mankind's longstanding
fascination with nature- the desire to claim and master it-and the
deep-seated effects of such drives on the collective psyche.
O'Dell
received his MFA from Stanford University in 2004. He is the recipient
of the 2004 SECA Art Award given by the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art. His work was also included in the exhibition "International
Paper" at the UCLA Hammer Museum in 2003.
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