Venation No. 2 Painting

Shannon Rankin is a New Mexico-based visual artist. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in numerous publications. "Shannon Rankin is an artist who uses the language of maps to explore the complexities and interconnections between the inner and outer worlds, between that which is known and that which remains beyond the field of knowledge, that mythical place on medieval maps where the dragons lie and cherubs blow the wind. The duality of our human capacity for imagination and reason, for creation and destruction, for being of nature and apart from it, is a rhumb line that courses through her work." - Suzette McAvoy "Shannon Rankin has always invented her own terrain. She maps landscapes of imagination, juxtapositions of time and place, experience and information transformed and reorganized into elegant and precise and surprising patterns. They are maps of her heart and her mind; they are surprising allegories of human navigation." - Deborah Weisgall