Bricks are most often accompanied by other bricks. They are objects which become productive through repetition—brick by brick. Despite their reputation for firm, immobility, bricks have action built-in. To be precise, they are verbs as much as objects: closing, paving or facing by bricking in, up or over.

With Brick in, brick up, brick over and over, Shannon Garden-Smith presents a series of sculptures which disorient the work bricks do. Using domestic decorative fillers and foregrounding a tactile, repetitive process, Garden-Smith offers up objects which hold too much and too little in an attempt to resist predetermined, productivist ends.     

Shannon Garden-Smith is a Guelph/Toronto-based artist. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto in 2012 and is a current MFA studio art candidate at the University of Guelph. She has recently exhibited at 8-11 Gallery (Toronto), Y+ Contemporary (Scarborough) and Kunstverein am-Rosa-Luxembourg-Platz (Berlin).