Gallery Revisited - Artist: Lana Shuttleworth

Lana Shuttleworth's predominant medium for the construction and execution of her work is the ubiquitous and ever-present street icon: The Safety Cone. In her quest for materials, we see a contemporary, urban huntress foraging for the food of her creations in a modern-primitive manner that crosses the lines of appropriation and legalities.

The accumulation of her materials that then become fodder for her art and subsequently viewed in the gallery or museum context are a direct transverse of our understanding of street art. While we are accustomed to seeing art made on the streets (ie graffiti/stencils/paste ups/murals) making their way into gallery and museum exhibitions, there is also a history of discarded materials and found objects being used as well, the safety cone being Lana's.

Once the safety cones are acquired, they are compulsively and painstakingly cut into tiny little pieces or carved almost beyond recognition. Locked by their inherent inability to biodegrade, they are immortalized as animals, elaborate landscapes, skeletons and portraits. Of note is the conceptual transformation of a man-made thing into the form of a natural thing, marking mans contemporary struggle with nature.

The safety cone itself is no longer the meager notion of "I exist therefore I am". But rather, more importantly is what it is saying when it has become something else.

Selected Exhibitions

Résumé

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Group Exhibitions

2008

Don’t Fence Me In, Bandini Art Gallery, Culver City, CA

2007

Plays Well with Others, Santa Monica College/the Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Living Room: Conscious Art and Design, Metro Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Gem, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA

2006

That Show, Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
Gem, Juror Joni Gordon, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA
Petite Works, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA

2005

In the Abstract, Juror Carl Berg, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Juried Exhibition, Jurors James Elaine, Barbara Gilbert, and Karin Higa, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Out Auction for the LAGLC, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Tar Fest- Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, CA
Petite Works, Gallery 825/ Bergamot Annex, Los Angeles, CA

2004

Open Show, Juror James Elaine, Hammer Museum, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA
Barnsdall 2004, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
White Plains, Juror Michelle Isenberg, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA
The 50/50 Show, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA

2003

It's a Fine Line, Juror Claudine Ise, Hammer Museum
The (Return of the) 50/50 Show, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA
And Now a Word from Our Sponsor, Juror Mat Gleason, Coagula, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA
Dust is also Buddha, Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA
Electric, Transport Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002

Fall, Transport Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pacifically Designed, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Art, Art Pic, North Hollywood, CA
Summer Show, Transport Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2001

Downtown Artist, Transport Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1999

Echo Park Arts Festival, Ojala Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Everything Visual, Art Pic, North Hollywood, CA

Awards

2004

Best in Show, Open Show, Juror James Elaine, Hammer Museum, Gallery 825/LAAA

Bibliography

2008

Turner, Nancy Kay, Sigalert:The Sculpture of Lana Shuttleworth, Coagula, February 2008

2007

Ng, David, A pointed take on street style, LA Times, September 2007
Continuing and Recommended, ArtScene, October 2007
Pulse (Sept. 8), Art Ltd., September 2007
Berglund, Cary, Cone Art, KNBC News, September 2007

2006

Myers, Holly, Around the Galleries, LA Times, July 2006

2003

Campbell, Rob, “Ashes to Art,” VC Reporter, June 2003

Education

1994

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL