Shift Shape: Toni Malone Print

Clare Dunn has been living in the belt of the Ohio River as long as she can remember--her life has been a slow sojourn Northward. Growing up, she lived in Walton, Kentucky, and never truly settled on a primary school. At 11, she was accepted into an advanced high school, Covington Latin, which allowed her to graduate early, at the age of 15. At 16, she enrolled in Xavier University. Currently, she resides in Cincinnati, Ohio. She likes cats, secret codes, coffee, and conspiracy. Art-wise, she likes gestural linework, intuitive anatomy, evident labor-intensity, and brilliant color. She believes in the accessibility of art to the public, going so far as to encourage physical interaction between audience and her own work and allowing mass production and low-brow imagery to trickle into her more "fine" pieces. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My work can be split into three categories--Fine Art, Illustration, and something in-between. There's a lot of blending between the two, but typically, my fine art work is most interested in depicting reality, and is typically constituted of a mixture of portraiture and figurative imagery. My illustrative work is usually long-term imaginative projects. I just finished exhibiting The Internship, a process show depicting the character creation, world-building, and execution of a self-written, illustrated, and published comic book of the same name. The Internship spanned 8 years, go further back than my undergrad career, and which I will most likely continue indefinitely. (If you are interested in my comic book and it's non-fine art counterparts like stickers or t-shirts, please visit my etsy website.) My in-between work is actually mostly consisted of zines and project books. The actual format is easily reproducable, making it less "fine", and heavily design influenced. I take great care to ensure the imagery constituting these little project books is finely crafted. These are typically glimpses into daily life and applicable poetic phrasings.