UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A solo exhibition of work by Shannon Goff, assistant professor of art in the Penn State School of Visual Arts, at Susanne Hilberry Gallery in Ferndale, Michigan, has recently been featured by Hyperallergic, DesignBoom, ThisIsColossal, FastCoDesign, the Detroit Metro Times, and others.
The exhibition, a culmination of two years of work and research, opened Sept. 19 and has been extended until Nov. 21. The largest sculpture in the exhibition is “Miles to Empty”, a full-size sculpture of a 1979 Lincoln Continental Mark V, rendered entirely out of corrugated cardboard. An homage to the artist’s late grandfather, the sculpture is also a meditation on her Motor City roots. As Sarah Rose Sharp writes in Hyperallergic:
“There is a sense of quietness and reverence that permeates the gallery where it is displayed — perhaps a reflection of the lingering sensitivity many longtime Detroiters feel around the city’s precipitous decline, or perhaps the gallery’s more personal sense of recent loss around its founder Susanne Hilberry, or perhaps just a deep appreciation of the astonishing amount of work that went into building this creation by hand.”
In another room in the gallery, Goff is exhibiting more than a dozen new sculptures in fired and glazed ceramic, as well as a site-specific work titled “Doyenne,” built from clay in the gallery in the days preceding the opening.