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SHAWNE MAJOR b. 1968, New Iberia, Louisiana Punctum, 2009 Mixed media; 48 x 36 in. Collection of Shawne Major Artist Shawne Major is known for her large, intensely colorful, rhythmic, and visually sensual tapestries, or “physical paintings,” as she calls them. She uses “discarded consumerism objects” in wall hangings that have personal meaning to her or to other people. Upon close inspection, like viewing molecules of matter, an observer sees sewn together, seemingly at random, incongruous items such as kitschy pieces of bright fabric, plastic toys, doll clothes, plastic swords, military buttons, watch parts, Asian money, fake furs from Israel, small electrical circuit boards, and other little fetishlike objects. JRK ART IN CONTEMPORARY LOUISIANA 301  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1304 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1304

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