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Art Talks at Brand invites contemporary artists to discuss their work and the issues surrounding it, followed by a moderated Q&A with Brand staff member, artist, and writer Jennifer Remenchik. Artists are selected to reflect the diversity of the art scene of the greater Los Angeles area. The Art Talks at Brand program that took place on September 4, 2025 featured artist Shanna Waddell.
Shanna Waddell (b. 1981, Long Beach, CA) is a Los Angeles-based painter. Waddell’s paintings depict a built world focused on the activities of a self- sustaining, flower farm artist commune called Sheness Society. Her works demonstrate a fantastical otherworld, one that is both whimsical and utterly alluring, thrusting a viewer into an imagined utopian landscape. Across the canvases and sculptures, Waddell chronicles the day-to-day enterprises of the artist collective: flower-farming, plein-air painting, gathering of supplies, utilizing the community wagons, and meditating in a state of tranquility. Her work absorbs and adapts the primarily masculine modes of painting with pure freedom and interjects her spirit with a creative fearless feminine fortitude - freely injecting ideas for future artistic systems of living. Waddell attended the Headlands Center of the Arts and received an MFA in Drawing and Painting, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and a BFA in Drawing and Painting, CSU, Long Beach. Her next solo exhibition will open at Vielmetter (Los Angeles, CA).
Art Talks at Brand is sponsored by the Brand Associates. For more information on the art talks please visit our website: brandlibrary.org/art-talks
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Art Talks at Brand invites contemporary artists to discuss their work and the issues surrounding it, followed by a moderated Q&A with Brand staff member, artist, and writer Jennifer Remenchik. Artists are selected to reflect the diversity of the art scene of the greater Los Angeles area. The Art Talks at Brand program that took place on September 4, 2025 featured artist Shanna Waddell.
Shanna Waddell (b. 1981, Long Beach, CA) is a Los Angeles-based painter. Waddell’s paintings depict a built world focused on the activities of a self- sustaining, flower farm artist commune called Sheness Society. Her works demonstrate a fantastical otherworld, one that is both whimsical and utterly alluring, thrusting a viewer into an imagined utopian landscape. Across the canvases and sculptures, Waddell chronicles the day-to-day enterprises of the artist collective: flower-farming, plein-air painting, gathering of supplies, utilizing the community wagons, and meditating in a state of tranquility. Her work absorbs and adapts the primarily masculine modes of painting with pure freedom and interjects her spirit with a creative fearless feminine fortitude - freely injecting ideas for future artistic systems of living. Waddell attended the Headlands Center of the Arts and received an MFA in Drawing and Painting, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and a BFA in Drawing and Painting, CSU, Long Beach. Her next solo exhibition will open at Vielmetter (Los Angeles, CA).
Art Talks at Brand is sponsored by the Brand Associates. For more information on the art talks please visit our website: brandlibrary.org/art-talks
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To learn more about Brand Library & Art Center and to learn more about our programs, go to: brandlibrary.org
Follow Brand Library & Art Center on Social Media: @brandlibrary
Instagram: instagram.com/brandlibrary
Facebook: facebook.com/brandlibrary
X: twitter.com/brandlibrary
To speak to a Brand Library & Art Center Librarian, give us a call at (818) 548-2051 or send us an email to info@brandlibrary.org.
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To learn more about Glendale Library, Arts & Culture and to visit our virtual library, go to: GlendaleLAC.org
Follow GLAC on Social Media: @myGlendaleLAC
Instagram: instagram.com/myglendaleLAC
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