Signs No One Taught Me

Enjoy the opportunity to meet our guest artist, Shaun Doll, and discuss with him his current show. The works on display have emerged from a language that no longer belongs to anyone but him. Working with the coded marks of hobo symbols—an improvised communication system built from necessity, Shaun’s works, over time, have evolved into gestures of their own, becoming an abstract vocabulary that carries the residue of their origins but speaks differently now. Invented symbols coexist with fragments of recognizable imagery that mirror the tension between legibility and mystery, message and meaning. Each work becomes a search for connection through signs that can’t quite be read, but can still be felt.