Shannon Cannings

Shannon Cannings grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA.  She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA and her MFA from Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, both degrees in Painting.  She have taught at Texas Tech University for 22 years.  She is represented by Anya Tish Gallery in Houston, Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas, and at Charles Adams Gallery in Lubbock. She has been a Hunting Prize finalist four times, and has had her work included in New American Painting, the Texas Biennial, several art fairs and museum exhibitions, two books, and many solo and group shows in 13 states.

Artist's Statement

My most recent subject matter, toy guns, is more apparently subversive than my past work.  It is impossible to ignore the current media battle between unbridled gun culture and control.  Marketing lulls us into states of unquestioning acceptance of gun culture and marketing as truth.  I hope to engage viewers to question with me, and explore their own relationships with guns and gun culture and how they relate to play.

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