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Sienna Shields
painted paperSienna Shields
painted paper
Since 2000, Brooklyn-based Alaskan artist Sienna Shields has been
working with a process of making and painting paper to create a full!
color palette that is then cut/torn!and collaged into layered!fields of
paper and paint that evoke topography, quilting and colorful!
explosions. As the work engages larger and larger canvases, the!fields
have grown increasingly complex and varied in terrain. The process of!
cutting, tearing, dying and recombining that Sienna employs thickens!
the plane of the image and saturates the texture of the canvas.
resulting work achieves the effect of a structural combine flattened
into its most elemental particles of color and texture.
space monkey robots
2004New York
© sienna shields
we were singing and
the band hadn’t broken up yet2005 44 x 60
Argentina
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a lion no. i saw chickens in winter
2005 New York
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amazing was over. kelly! kelly!
2006 New York
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The Fairies left for a west I didn't know, one
glanced back and went to seed
2005 Seattle
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Snail and ladybug but the chick had itchy palms
2005 New York 32 x 36
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isabella came over for tea with anna a. in her hair and her
exoskeleton in a bunch
2006 No. 1
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isabella came over for tea with anna a. in her hair and her
exoskeleton in a bunch
2006 No. 2
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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
Spring
2006
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Summer
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
2006
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Fall
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
2006
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Winter
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
2006
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Spring
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
2006 San Francisco
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buried under bois
process
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mapped blood beats
letter on the haight
2006 San francisco
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rocks paper scissors
New York dumba Collective
72 x 96
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far far away and
when donuts and when donuts were ok
2005 New York72 x76
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for shane, a journey
New York 2004-2007
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phoebe said stop i like it. "but the ring is broken and the lasso undone"
& so now she is on to new loves
2006 New York
48 x 72
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appaloosa
2006 New York
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rec room floor & the TM toys are at war. we egged
on the mountain while the rag dolls yawned
2006-2008
63.5 x 71.5 Argentina
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the resurrection
2004-2007 New York
50 x 64
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memories of the explorers
2005 New York
32 x 48
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brunch in dumba
for Shane Hofffman
2006
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mapping green
2 of 6
2006
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map after and before a love & another
2003 New York
54 x 90
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who are you green dragon? a tall glass of water with a
dash of love & a squeeze of hate said the unripe papaya
2003-4
New York
34 x 95©Sienna Shields
.99 cent store
2007 New York
53.5 x 71.5
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i can't be a mole to china and
an ali fighter. someone else hits harder. not i.
2007 New York
22 x 26
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triangles cut
2005 New York
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table ma[
part of 3
2004 New York
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studies
for Jan Larsen
2005 New York
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strings over m and bubbles
2004 New York
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a whirlwind
the life tree
2004-2007
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this is a door! she said. & he laid it sideways.
naomi on the threshing floor.
2005-2008 New York
12 x 54
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in process
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salome's green carnation
detail, New York 2008
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bois
New York
2006=2008
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topography
2008 Alaska
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alders on my desk
Alaska 2008
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iceberry
Alaska 2008
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iceberg for M, bicycle basket
Alaska 2008
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New York 2005
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Caption
2008 New York
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topography17
paper journal
2008
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topographyorange
paper journal
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topography06
paper journal 2008
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process
plastic dna in our hair in our water
sculpture in progress
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phoebe
detail
detail, 2008
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topography12
Alaska 2008
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Topo 22
Alaska 2008
detail
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midden
detail
2006 Argentina
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breaks with jordan
2008 detail
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venus mount
detail
NewYyork 2008
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silk shirts at the dollar store
paper journal
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vivian. memory clusters children grown and coffee drunk
California 2006 detail
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