Tom Shannon

Center to Center
November 20, 1976 – January 8, 1977


Zeitgeist (Solitary),
1970-76
sculpture cone 8 feet high
7-foot base with polished hemisphere

Zeitgeist (Solitary), 1970-76
(detail)
view from base to the top


Weightless Age, 1976
paint on cotton
7 x 11 feet
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Torch, 1976
zebra wood, glass, silver
3 x 48 inches

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THOMAS SHANNON

CENTER TO CENTER

November 20, 1976-January 8, 1977


Thomas Shannon will have his first one person exhibition at the Feldman Gallery. Some of the works included in the show are:

Zeitgeist (Solitary), 1970-76 is a theater in real time; an overview of external reality is projected into the base of a cone where one may walk.

Torch, 1976 is a perfect silver corner on the end of a wood handle. The corner returns light to its source. The corner returns one's eyebeam; in like manner, it returns the beams of the stars. A physical circuit is made, touching deep space.

Weightless Age, 1976 is from a stream of work dealing with natural incidents in the trajectories of rolling spheres. The real events traced by the spheres used in these paintings are abstractions of behavior patterns occurring on every scale, from sub-atomic particle collisions to human gestures, from planetary orbits to galactic implosions. In Weightless Age, the peaks of the natural parabolic curves are moments of neutral gravity where the force of the throw equals the force of the earth's gravity which draws the decline of each curve.

Notes, 1969-76 are small tone generators, each tuned to an exact frequency on a musical scale. Grains of sound, they can be combined to form chords, harmonies, octaves, etc. Scoring is a matter of choreography or architecture.

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