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Shanna Maurizi
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Natural Order #1, 16 x 16, Chromogenic Prints
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Shanna Maurizi currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She holds an MFA from California College of the Arts, and an undergraduate degree in Photography from San Francisco State. Her photographic work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at White Box NY, Santa Monica Museum of Art, The Lab, Gallery 825, and Rotterdam Kunsthal, among many others, and was included in the invitational “UnFair” in Miami Beach. She had her first solo show in 2004, and has been featured in Daily Constitutional, Pinque Magazine, San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Revista Mu, among others. Most recently, she has been the recipient of a grant to attend the Vermont Studio Center.
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Natural Order #2, 16" x 16", Chromogenic Prints
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Natural Order #4, 16" x 16", Chromogenic Prints
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Natural Order #5, 16" x 16", Chromogenic Prints
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Natural Order #6, 16" x 16", Chromogenic Prints
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I have always been interested in the human desire to impose a meaningful pattern on the world. Perpetually hovering at the edge of the known, nature seems to defy the ever-advancing edge of science, foiling and obfuscating our understanding at every turn. The most transparent illusion of our mastery of nature is the natural history museum and its ancestor, the cabinet of curiosities. In the various manifestations of the modern natural history museum, classification, preservation, and display talks to the ways in which we order and comprehend knowledge.
In this project, ruptures and juxtapositions are introduced into the museum space, revealing gaps and discontinuities in the ordered body of scientific knowledge. It's the exceptions to the rule, the mysteries, and the cracks in theories and assumptions that attract my attention, things we cannot grasp directly but only tangentially.
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Natural Order #3, 16
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