108 Contemporary

Shawn Smith
“Praying Mantis” (with decapitated head storage)
Hand-painted, 3D-printed resin (edition 1 of 3)
4.25” x 3” x 2.5”
$1,300

This work is part of Shawn Smith’s “Prepping for the Void Series” on view in “Entangled Ecologies” at 108|Contemporary.

In a typical summer month, 6 billion insects fly over your head. Wind and air currents disperse insects to great distances. Since 1926, scientists have been using airplanes to collect insects as high as 19,000 feet.

For this series, Prepping for the Void, I imagined creating space suits to help the insects survive their journey. I took the artistic liberty of including two arthropods that are technically not insects but belong to the same phylum.

We are dazzled by this Gold Tea Dust Bowl by SHOP 108 Featured Artist Ruth Hesse.
Ceramic;
2" x 5.5"
$35.00 (+ up to 20% off thru May 23!)

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Shawn Smith
“Marie Antoinest”
25” x 11.5” x 9”
3D-print, pigment, acrylic paint, powder made from mud dauber wasp nests - unique.
$7,500

On view in “Entangled Ecologies” at 108|Contemporary through May 23, 2026

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