Shannon Bono
1 collaboration
Bono experiments across painting, collage and sculpture to tell dynamic stories of Black womanhood. With the exception of her mother and close friends, she largely paints herself from photographs with oil paint. The works recall the grandiose liturgy of Renaissance and Byzantine art, and seamlessly thread African textile cultures with scientific images of sickle and nerve cells - a symbol of cultural and physiological life. Following principles of Afrofemcentrism, Bono uses the Black femme body to uncover histories and present themes of liberation and self-autonomy.
