In Her Place with Lanie Gannon

Lanie Gannon uses scissors as a drawing tool, creating intricate paper structures that serve as monuments to the hand-eye connection. Inspired by her experience with garment and textile construction and her background in woodworking, Gannon meticulously crafts vibrantly painted paper into suspended sculptural forms that reference bodices, biological matter, scaffolding, and architecture. Gannon’s shift from working with wood to paper marked a pivotal moment in her practice as she embraced the latter medium’s immediacy and adaptability. For Gannon, paper lends itself to improvisation, and she notes that the medium comprises qualities of both fabric and wood. Using techniques that expose worlds within, she sculpts works that combine massive presence with delicate fragility.