Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project: Shashana Chittle

1=+1 by Shashana Chittle
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Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project: Shashana Chittle, September/October 2006
Your Art Here presents 1=+1 by artist Shashana Chittle for the Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project. The billboard will be mounted September 2006.

ARTWORK STATEMENT
"1=+1" and "correct me if I'm wrong" are two pieces that take personal sentiments that I rarely express and attempt to offer them for others to relate to. 1=+1 is a shy attempt at optimism, while "Correct me if I'm wrong" is a shy attempt at self-confidence. Both of these pieces embody the hope for hope I've been struggling for, given the war and the political climate of recent years.

"1=+1" is a way of thinking about non-qualified facts and quantities, since the number one is necessarily positive unless specified otherwise, 1=+1 is a way of abstractly integrating a belief in positivity into one's daily life. I believe the equation also acts much like a Buddhist koan in the way that is it clear and unclear at once. Each of the two items in the photo, "correct me if I'm wrong" carry contradictory messages. Positioned against a black background, a dead dove is juxtaposed with a heart shaped post-it note that has "correct me if I'm wrong" tentatively written in white-out on it. I feel that the pairing of these conflicting but heartfelt symbols acknowledges the difficulty of following one's heart and the confusion included in that struggle.

ARTIST BIO
Shashana Jaffee Chittle was born in San Francisco in 1980. She received her Batchelor of Arts in Art Studio from UC Santa Barbara in 2002, and her Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Art at UC San Diego in 2006. She has exhibited in gallery group-shows in Los Angeles, San Diego, Tijuana and Chicago, as well as in "The Small Painting Show" at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita Kansas, and "Spring Reverb" at the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. She currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

CONTACT INFO
Shashana Chittle - shashanachittle@gmail.com (email)
coming soon: www.shashanachittle.com (website)

RESUME
Solo Exhibitions:
2006 "This Life Every Day: Making the Invisible Visible; (Sympathetic Magic, Improvisational Poetics and Empathetic Logic)"; Herbert Marcuse Gallery, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California
2004 "Confronting the Fear of Both Living and Dying"
Herbert Marcuse Gallery, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California


Group Exhibitions:
2006 "Don't Fail Me Now" Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, California
2006 "Sonic" Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2006 "The Beginning of the End of the Beginning" Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, Curated by Marc Le Blanc
2006 "The Dolphins of San Onofre" Compact Space, Los Angeles California, Curated by Malik Gaines
2006 "The Elephant vs. The Termite" University Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California
2006 "The Small Painting Show" Ulrich Art Museum, Wichita State University, Kansas; Curated by General Store: Scott Reeder, Tyson Reeder and Elysia Bowory-Reeder
2005 "Pretty Crude" Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, California, Curated by Danny Jauregui
2005 "Outer Space" Sixth College, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California
2005 "Pencil on Glass" Vos Alta Gallery, San Diego, California, Curated by Jeff Williams
2004 "Summary" 4F Gallery, Los Angeles, California, Curated by James Elaine
2004 "Pasale" Estacion Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
2004 "Spring Reverb" Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California


Awards:
2004 Russell Foundation Grant
2004 Graduate Research Award
2003-2006 Academic Scholarship, University of California at San Diego
2002 William Dole Award
2000 William Dole Award


Publications:
2005 New American Painting, The MFA Annual, 2004
2004 San Diego City Beat Magazine, "Flowers Of The Fallout", by Oren Graves and Troy Johnson, http://www.sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id=1995