Photography Program Presents
Photography Lecture by Shannon Ebner '93
Monday, December 3, 2018
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
In service of the Peter Kenner '66 Artist in Residency
Shannon Ebner was born in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1971. She received her BA from Bard College in 1993 and her MFA in photography from Yale University in 2000. Ebner’s artwork takes various modes of language—including poetry, symbols, and political rhetoric—and reconciles them through the lens of photography, thereby critically examining the limits and ambiguities of language and representation.Ebner’s work can be understood within the historical context of the photo- and language-based Conceptual art that emerged in the United States in the 1960s, finding particular resonance with the work of Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, and Robert Smithson. These artists critically deconstructed visual and verbal languages with the intent of revealing the ideological mechanisms at work behind art exemplified by philosopher Marshall McLuhan’s famous assertion that “the medium is the message.” Featuring photographs of handmade letters and various forms of altered industrial signage, Ebner’s art questions the supposed objectivity and transparency of language by calling attention to its inherent constructed and mediated aspect.
For more information, call 828-768-4557, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema