Daniel Faria Gallery is pleased to present The Wave, Shannon Bool’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery.

The underlying sensibility of Bool’s work stems from collage, which allows her to complicate the historic and cultural charge of the images she appropriates by re-contextualizing them into new and destabilizing constellations. Much of Bool’s process subverts hierarchies of material value, by using mediums associated with craft such as jacquard weaving, batik silk painting, or ceramics. Together, the artworks in this exhibition contend with the danger and beauty of progress and how aesthetic systems historically repeat themselves.

The title of the exhibition comes from the German Die Woge, the title of a reclining nude sculpture by Fritz Klimsch from 1936. Die Woge is most often used metaphorically and poetically to describe a large and powerful wave, the fearsome awe of nature, a surge of emotion, or the driving force of power behind something. In three new large-scale tapestries,…