Shannon Ebner

Opening Date: October 10, 2010

kaufmann repetto
Via di Porta Tenaglia, 7
20121 Milano, Italy

Roski Assistant Professor Shannon Ebner's first solo show in Italy is now on view in the project room at Kaufmann Repetto in Milan.

Over the past five years, Ebner has mined the porous territory of language by photographing words and letters that she both finds and makes in environments ranging from the landscape around Los Angeles to the space of the artist's studio.

In more recent photographic works, Ebner seeks to broaden her investigation of language to include the linguistic potential of the photograph itself, moving away from photographing politically charged words and phrases towards the construction of a mercurial visual system that includes images, objects, wallpaper applications of text phrases and videos. In a broad sense, Ebner's work can be seen as an ongoing investigation of visual and photographic semiotics that relies on depiction while also rejecting the notion that a photograph must be exactly or only what we say it is and in turn what it depicts.

Ebner, born in Englewood, NJ, now lives and works in Los Angeles and is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Practice and head of photography at the Roski School of Fine Arts.

Shannon Ebner, ampersand, 2010, chromogenic print, cm 160 x 122