SHANNON CANNINGS
Shannon Cannings lives and works in Lubbock, Texas where she teaches at The Texas Tech University. Cannings’ expertly painted hyper-realistic paintings of toy guns explore the artificial nature of American consumerism, creating a visual hybrid between opposing themes of beauty & kitsch, innocence and violence, nostalgia and regret. Cannings’ received an MFA from Syracuse University in New York and has been featured in New American Paintings, Miami Art Fair and has been selected to exclusively represent the West Texas region in the upcoming 2011 Texas Biennale.