Still Standing by Shannon Landis Hansen In NOLA City Park – geegj
Mosaic Sculpture – Still Standing – Artist – Shannon Landis Hansen
Art in Public Places Project – City Park Avenue near Orleans Avenue, New Orleans, LA
One of twenty new projects commissioned by the Arts Council of New Orleans in collaboration with the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
Mosaic – Piano man on the wrong keyboard – geegj
Mosaic Public Art Sculpture – Still Standing by Shannon Landis Hansen – geegj
Mosaic Piano man on a typewriter keyboard – geegj
Mosaic Sculpture – “Still Standing” – geegj
Mosaic – Art of New Orleans – Mosaic “Still Standing” – geegj
Mosaic – “Still Standing” Harlequin – geegj
Mosaic – Southern Belle – “Still Standing” – geegj
Mosaic Artist – Shannon Landis Hansen
Born in 1947, Shannon spent her childhood moving from place to place. She found herself living in boisterous construction camps in the Pacific Northwest, in a fishing village at the mouth of the Columbia river, a boarding house on the plains of Montana, and happily, for a short while, in a beloved brick house in Memphis, Tennessee.
Mosaic – Rose – “Still Standing” mosaic piece – geegj
Very shy and impressionable, she loved books, reading Dickens, Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters, but, even more, she was always drawn into the secret lives of things, playing with and creating arrangements with whatever was at hand — driftwood, iron scraps, the objects found on an old dresser.
Mosaic – Southern Belle – geegj
She explains,
“Parallel to our lives are the lives of things. Just like us, they have their own journeys through time, in some ways staying the same, in some ways changing. The little German girl who wanted a Dresden ballerina got old and died, but the ballerina is still here — maybe she’s missing a few fingers that got chipped off.”
Mosaic – Pieces of the “Still Standing” mosaic – geegj
As an artist, Shannon started off as a watercolorist, winning awards and showing with the National Academy of Design in New York and the San Diego Watercolor Society, among others.
Mosaic sculpture – “Still Standing” mosaic – geegj
In the 1980s, inspired by such artists as Fra Angelica, Francis Bacon, and especially Joseph Cornell, Shannon began to create many-layered assemblages, taking part in group and one-woman shows at the Dickson Art Center, UCLA, the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Whittier College, and numerous galleries in Los Angeles.
Mosaic – Still Standing – Shannon Landis Hansen – Arts Council of New Orleans – geegj
Shannon’s current work, incorporating ceramic figures, mosaic tiles, plates, cups and saucers, is clearly an outgrowth and continuation of her previous interests. Reflecting her fascination with what might be called “transitoriness,” how things change over time, these lamps, tables, chairs and fountains explore how found objects can actually rediscover new life and beauty under her hands. Shannon Landis Hansen
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I love this
This is incredibly beautiful and interesing. I wish I could see it in person.
Strangely Beautiful work!