Shawn Mayer
Customizable CONTENT-ment
March 2 - May 3, 2024
Caution Tape #2, 2023, Inkjet on towel, 57 x 71 in.
Shawn Mayer: Customized CONTENTment. Mayer’s new body of work is a series of photographs of signs, textures, walls, and street graffiti repurposed into fine art merchandise items.
Shawn Mayer completed his MFA in Arts and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas in the spring of 2014. He holds a BA in Music and a BFA in Drawing from the University of Missouri (2008). He has worked on award-winning animation, production, and post-production for television, film, and commercial programming.
His work aims to bridge the gap between physical and digital media, combining them with immersive and interactive elements to create new and unconventional art. His areas of focus include online media, emergent play, improvisation, and folk practices which he reflects in gallery spaces to create unexpected and humorous experiences.
For the past five years, Shawn has worked extensively with additive manufacturing in stop-motion filmmaking within the Portland, Oregon area where he performs regularly. Shawn Mayer lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Seleceted works: Gabrielle Constantine
What's Inside Turns Out, With the Flash of the Sun, 2024, Mirror, mortar, found objects, milk crate, 13 x 11.25 in.