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Shauna Fahley
Supple, 2023
Ceramics and glaze
13 Ã- 5 ½ Ã- 9 ½ inches

Estimate: $1,600

Shauna Fahley has dedicated her practice to making large-scale clay horses, noting that both are foundational to humankind's development. Her primary aim is, she writes, "to reconfigure the equine icon as a vehicle for understanding empathy beyond ourselves." Fahley's sculptures critique the legacy of horses' objectification in Western Art, presenting an alternative vision. Many of her sculptures eschew the rider, focusing solely on the horse. They are the collective image of horses throughout time, a modern equine monument. And yet, some works reveal that the best horse-human interactions shed hierarchy in favor of an expansion of two separate beings into one.

Fahley has an MFA from Alfred University in Alfred and a BFA from The University of Washington in Seattle. She received many grants, scholarships, and awards toward her university education. She has exhibited throughout the United States, including at the Canton Museum of Art, and the Young Sculptors Competition at Miami University in Oxford, OH. She was Artist in Residence at the Sculpture Space, New York City, the Archie Bray Foundation, and the PSZ Clay Center.