Inside, the book is filled with original works and Shannon’s transcribed performance-essay, and features five new essays from artists, curators, and those close to Shannon as they write from their different perspectives about the tool, project, and artist.

They are David Reinfurt, Rex Shannon, Maya Man, Sofia Garcia, and Ruby Justice Thelot.

Shannon’s new series examines surveillance and selfhood through an interactive, kinetic installation called the plotter-scanner - a custom machine combining a standard document scanner with a 4'×6' plotter to create life-sized scans that are both precise and intimate, holding the body at scale yet fractured at the seams.

The series contains multitudes - it’s a tool of simultaneous surveillance and witness, harnessed as a new perspective on portraiture. It’s an exploration of hyper-documentation in the information era.

Luke Shannon, in partnership with Heft, are thrilled to release this special book ripe with thought and image. The 200 available copies of this 100 page 8 x 10 in. book is available now at the gallery or online for $35 each (plus shipping).

Opening Tonight:
Replacement Character by Luke Shannon

Please join us tonight, Oct 8, from 6-9pm for the opening of our next exhibition, Replacement Character by Luke Shannon.

Anchored by its plotter-scanner installation, a custom machine designed and built by the artist, the series presents works that are both precise and intimate, holding the body at scale, yet fractured at the seams. Shannon’s engagement with the machine becomes a new form of self-portraiture: durational, ephemeral, and mirroring the artist’s own presence. RSVP in the link below. All are welcome!