【SPURS 新展】莎娜·沃德尔个展“第一章：她/他居住的国度……”
莎娜·沃德尔个展“第一章：她/他居住的国度…… ”
2023年12月2日—2024年1月21日
Gallery I｜SPURS Gallery，北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路二号院 798 艺术区 D-06
马刺画廊将于2023年12月2日在Gallery I呈现艺术家莎娜·沃德尔（Shanna Waddell）在画廊的首次个展“第一章：她/他居住的国度……”（Chapter 1: where s/heness society lives …）。
“她/他国”（s/heness society）是沃德尔进行的一个长久的叙事，将逐一以个展、最终通过一本书的形式来展示“她/他国”的各个篇章。“她/他国”是沃德尔创造的一个另类世界，充满女性气质的艺术家集体“她/他”（s/heness）在这个世界中生活。“她/他”的日常活动包括但不限于：种植花卉、在月落时采风进行绘画等等，这是一个包罗万象的充满宁静与关爱的社会。
“她/他国”中充满了郁郁葱葱的色彩、奢华的花园、海岸风光和空灵的女性形象，在这里，“她/他”虽然以美丽且有格调的女性造型出现，但更像是集体精神聚集的容器而不拘泥于性别的区分。“她/他”们是一群艺术家，也是种植花卉的农民，“她/他”们将农耕与集体创作等协同活动付诸实践。作为她笔下世界的艺术家居民，“她/他”帮助沃德尔自由地在这个过程中与艺术史对话，不受拘束地吸收男性画家例如爱德华·蒙克、皮尔·波纳尔、古斯塔夫·克里姆特等的绘画方式融入自己的创作中。
在本章中，沃德尔向观众展示了“她/他国”居处的成员们绘画工作的地方，难以分清陆地与海洋的界限，穿着华丽的艺术家们在有着宫殿、花团锦簇的户外进行写生，世界以一种生机勃勃又极具诱惑力的姿态展现。
展览将持续展出至2024年1月21日。
莎娜·沃德尔，《她/他居住的国度 3》，2023，布面油画，183 x 336 cm｜Shanna Waddell, where s/heness society lives III, 2023, oil on canvas, 183 x 336 cm
Shanna Waddell, Chapter 1: where s/heness society lives …
December 2, 2023 – January 21, 2024
Gallery I | SPURS Gallery, D-06, 798 Art Zone, 2 Jiuxianqiao Rd, Chaoyang District, Beijing
SPURS Gallery is pleased to present “Chapter 1: where s/heness society lives …,” an exhibition by Shanna Waddell on December 2, 2023. This will be the artist’s first solo show with the gallery and will be exhibited in Gallery I.
“s/heness society” is Waddell’s lifelong narrative. Solo shows serve as ongoing installments to Waddell’s world-building project, eventually culminating in a book that showcases chapters of “s/heness society.” “s/heness society” is an other-worldly plane, an artist commune brimming with femininity that houses “s/heness.” These figures occupy themselves daily with activities such as flower farming and plein-air moonset painting, forming a utopian society of tranquility and care.
“s/heness society” is built with lush color, sumptuous gardens, glorious coastal scenes, and ethereal feminine figures. Here, though “s/heness” appears as beautiful, sensuous feminine figures, their bodies are more of a vessel for a collective spirit than a statement to the division of genders. They are artists, but also flower-planting farmers, dedicating themselves to the practice of an original, pastoral way of life and a collaborative process of collective creation. As artist-inhabitants of her world, “s/heness” helps Waddell achieve a freedom in dialogue with the history of art, absorbing unboundedly the masculine modes of painting of Edvard Munch, Pierre Bonnard, and Gustav Klimt, etc.
In this chapter, Waddell invites us into the art-making spaces of the members of “s/heness society.” The ambiguity between land and sea, luxuriously dressed artists who sketch from palatial, floral landscapes — Waddell’s alternative world opens in a flourishing and extremely alluring way.
The exhibition will be on view until January 21 2024.
莎娜·沃德尔，《她/他们在户外作画》，2020，综合材料，180 x 246 cm｜Shanna Waddell, s/heness paints outdoors together, 2020, mixed media, 180 x 246 cm
关于艺术家
莎娜·沃德尔的项目通过一系列绘画和拼贴作品虚构出一个自给自足型花农-艺术家公社。这既是一种想象练习，也是一种与艺术史和艺术创作典范对话的沉思实践。沃德尔自由地吸收并改造传统上男性中心主义的绘画方式，将她自己的精神注入到对未来生活模式的构想中。
莎娜·沃德尔，1981年出生于美国长滩，2006年毕业于美国加州州立大学长滩分校素描和绘画专业，获艺术学士学位，2010年毕业于美国费城天普大学泰勒艺术学院素描和绘画专业，获艺术硕士学位，现生活和工作于美国洛杉矶。
Shanna Waddell’s project in world-building through a series of works that depicts a self-sustaining flower farm artist commune is both an exercise in imagination and also a contemplation in dialogue with models of art history and art-making. Waddell absorbs and adapts the primarily masculine modes of painting with pure freedom and interjects her spirit into ideas for future models of living.
Shanna Waddell (b. 1981, Long Beach, USA) received a BFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University in 2006 and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia in 2010. She now lives and works in Los Angeles.
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莎娜·沃德尔个展“第一章：她/他居住的国度…… ”
2023年12月2日—2024年1月21日
Gallery I｜SPURS Gallery，北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路二号院 798 艺术区 D-06
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