Sharona Franklin
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New Psychedelia of Industrial Healing
2020
Exhibition view
King's Leap, New York -
Mycoplasma Altar
2020
Gelatin powder, daisies, foraged rose thorns sourced by Wretched Flowers, baby’s breath, juniper berry, metal nuts, kidney beans, amoxicillin pills, hydroxychloriquine pills, methotrexate pills, antibodies in glass syringe vials, tapioca pearls, sunflower seeds, metal button, almond extract, papier mâché, wood, acrylic and plaster
84 x 43 x 43 cm (33 x 17 x 17 in.) -
Drosophila Clock y
2021
Silver, brass, aluminium, mixed metal, expired pharmaceuticals, wood, foraged bone, antler, photographs enamel
50 × 50 cm (19.5 × 19.5 in.) -
Inflammatory Aesculapian Knife
2021
Gelatin, metal ergonomic knife, metal hardware, mixed botanicals, kava kava, IV port, surgical tubing, plastic
16 × 10 × 4 cm (6 × 4 × 1.5 in.) -
Inflammatory Aesculapian Spoon
2021
Gelatin, metal ergonomic spoon, metal hardware, mixed botanicals, kava kava, IV port, surgical tubing, plastic
21 × 9 × 4 cm (8 × 3.5 × 1.5 in.) -
Akashic Egg
2021
Ceramic dish, metal hardware, juniper berries, tapioca, mixed botanicals, expired pharmaceuticals, gelatin
20 × 13 × 15 cm (8 × 5 × 6) -
Inflammatory Aesculapian Fork
2021
Metal alloys, expired diclofenac pharmaceutical, medical tape, foraged animal bone, paint, yarn
28 × 17 × 3 cm (11 × 6 3/4 × 1 in.) -
Tenuous Support
2021
Gelatin, wool, metal, rubber, epoxy, expired pharmaceuticals, tapioca, mixed botanicals, camomile, beach glass, pansies, gelatin capsules, interleukin inhibitor antibody syringe, IV-port tubing, plastic
100 × 30 × 20 cm (39.5 x 12 x 8 in.) -
Bone Dust Commode
2021
Gelatin, sunflowers, tapioca, camomile, mixed botanicals, mixed metal hardware, expired pharmaceuticals, IV port/tubing, interleukin inhibitor antibody syringe, beach glass, metal alloy, wood
85 × 60 × 50 cm (33.5 x 23.5 x 19.5 in.)
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Axioms of Care
2021
Exhibition view
LambdaLambdaLambda, Kosovo -
Axioms of Care
2021
Exhibition view
LambdaLambdaLambda, Kosovo -
Nest Egg for Transient Childhoods
2020
Silk, linen, polyester, cotton, velvet, corduroy
76 x 51 cm (30 x 20") -
Funky 8 Ball
2019
Pillow cotton, polyester
96.5 x 91.5 cm (38 x 36")
Biography
Sharona Franklin (b. 1987) is a Canadian multidisciplinary disabled artist, writer, designer, consultant and advocate. Her work explores radical therapies, cybernetic craft, bio-ritualism, ecology, pharmacology, and social interdependence. Franklin’s practice coalesces discourses of disability, gender, class, and bio-citizenship. Franklin’s visual media practice is archived through social media platforms @paid.technologies, @star_seeded, @hot.crip, and @disabled_personals. Recent exhibitions and projects include a city-wide public art project with the City of Vancouver; Remai Modern, Saskatoon (CA); King’s Leap, New York, NY, an online solo exhibition with Printed Matter / St. Marks, New York; the Audain Gallery of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, and Flux Factory, New York.
Franklin will have her first institutional solo-exhibition at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts in February 2022.
Born in 1987 in Vancouver, CA
Lives and works in Vancouver
