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Hammer Presents Exhibition of Work by Los Angeles-Based Artist Shannon Ebner

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles-based artist Shannon Ebner’s work investigates the correlations between photography and language. Informed by various modes of writing—including poetry, experimental writing, and political speech—Ebner constructs images in the studio and the landscape. She builds letters and phrases out of vernacular materials such as cardboard, wood, and cinder blocks, calling attention to the ways language and imagery are constructed. The exhibition is on display from July 16, 2011 until October 9, 2011. For her Hammer Project, she exhibits a portion of an on-going project called “The Electric Comma,” which began as a poem she wrote of the same name about various conditions of the photographic, such