Shannon Castor | Syntax

Shannon Castor | Syntax

OPENING    July 8th 6-9pm
SHOW          July 9th – 30th 2025

open on Sat/Su 4-7pm and by appointment

My new body of work with Takt focuses on semiotics of color and memory. Icon, index, and symbol, what is the resemblance, signifier of the signified, and representation of memory through the lens of color. How does color catalyse or awaken personal and collective narrative? Along what scope do these translations of color to meaning occur?

In the installation of this work, I want the paintings positioned together to function like a metallic surface, so that different angles of viewing encourage a reading pattern that changes with and traces the viewer’s own relationship to color as they move. Akin to words shaping thought through speaking, color is metabolized into meaning.  It is an immersive experience of noticing. Like swarm behavior pulsing, it travels defined and undefined commutes to retrieve and recall memory.

The works on paper arranged closely together with corners acting as disruptions or glitches to the fluidity of organic brushwork represent cells in a honeycomb or units within a text, a map of single and mass networks connecting and reciprocating. It invites a pixelated perspective. An aberration of color, pattern, and sign questioning the embodiment of observation as an acquisition of knowledge and if this knowledge is instinctual, by association, or simply felt.

Shannon Castor