Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Major, Shawne |
Notes |
Shawne Major was born in New Iberia, Louisiana where she earned her BFA in painting in 1991 at the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in Lafayette, Louisiana. Major then attained her MFA in sculpture in 1995 at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Major lived in Brooklyn and New Jersey until 2003, when she and her two children moved back to Louisiana. Major's works are assemblages, classified as bricolage. Her two-dimensional works are sometimes referred to as tapestries, though this is technically incorrect, since a tapestry is woven from thread, whereas Major works by sewing found objects onto a base of fabric or poultry netting. To that base, Major sews objects such as toys, clothing, buttons, ribbons, fake fur, jewelry, charms, money household objects such as faucets and fixtures, wire, electronic circuit-boards, and husbandry equipment. Major refers to her two-dimensional works as "physical paintings." Major has been awarded a Rauschenberg residency and a Pollack-Krasner Grant. |
Nationality |
American |
