Shawn Marshall is a Kentucky-based mixed media artist with a background in architecture and design. She earned a Master of Architecture with a Minor in Fine Art from Cornell University, a Master of Art in Teaching from Bellarmine University, and Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Kentucky. Through an intensive process of alternating layers of hand-cut collage and resin, the works initially present as lush, ornamental, still lifes. Upon closer inspection, the botanical forms reveal themselves to be a complex anatomy of consumerism and objectification. By embedding these fragments of material culture within a classic vanitas framework, I aim to expose the ingrained misogyny and commercial contradictions often hidden in plain sight.

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