Jack Hanley Gallery
395 Valencia St
415.522.1623
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Shaun O'Dell, Sound From a Rock, 2008, Courtesy Jack Hanley Gallery
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Dec 13, 2008 – Jan 24, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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Numerous references and allusions appear throughout Shaun O'Dell's multimedia collages: Zoroastrian symbols, American quilting patterns, ancient Sumerian architecture, the history of diplomatic relations between the US and the Middle East. But one doesn't necessarily have to be able to fully annotate the free-associative power flows between Orient and Occident that course through O'Dell's work to appreciate his eye for arranging so much information. O'Dell's pieces can be viewed as formal ziggurats, whose components are arranged in scaled levels that draw the eye upward, revealing the accumulated layers of meaning and struggle buried in the strata beneath the temple.
