Shannon Ebner was born on 1971 and is an American artist based in Los Angeles.
12 Facts About Shannon Ebner
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Shannon Ebner received her BA degree from Bard College in 1993.
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Shannon Ebner participated in the St Mark's Poetry Project in New York and worked for the writer Eileen Myles.
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From 2010 to 2018, Shannon Ebner taught the University of Southern California's Roski School of Art and Design.
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For Shannon Ebner, photography is about the lines of action: writing with blank ink on a world that's in shades of grey.
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The first well known portrait made by Shannon Ebner is called: Portrait of My Ex-Girlfriend.
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Shannon Ebner placed the picture in a jar of water and left it there while she embarked on a road trip to Nova Scotia where she hoped to meet Robert Frank.
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The submerging of photographs in jars filled with water is a method that Shannon Ebner kept using during her career.
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Shannon Ebner shot a portrait of Walter Benjamin and exposed the picture to the same process: because of the solubility property of water, the photographs emulsion sloughed off, leaving behind a ghostly trace of the original print.
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Shannon Ebner's work is an exploration of language and sign systems.
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Shannon Ebner uses language in unexpected and multi-layered ways, with puns, palindromes and borrowed phrases.
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Shannon Ebner's work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim Museum, New York.