Shannon Cole | SUNY Oswego

Shannon Cole
Caledonia, NY
[email protected]

BFA Graphic Design

Biography

Shannon Cole was born and raised in the outskirts of Rochester, New York, in a town with more cows than people. She started her education at Monroe Community College, taking on work while still attending school. In the fall of 2018, she transferred to SUNY Oswego and switched to pursuing the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design. Shannon has had her work shown in the 2019 Inktober Exhibition at SUNY Oswego and had a photograph place second in an employee-based photo contest at the Strong Memorial Hospital. In her free time, Shannon loves designing tattoos, reading books, and spending time with her pets.

Artist Statement

My work reflects my beliefs of how we, as humans, need to be better for the planet and each other. In my time at SUNY Oswego, I have found a love for digital illustration that I didn’t know existed. The process of hearing an idea and then transforming it into a piece of art is very rewarding for me. I try to incorporate the things I’m passionate about in my work, like climate change, animal rights, and speaking up for anyone who feels suppressed. If my art can help create change, I feel I must help anyone I can.

Photograph of a small piece of a french fry, two pieces of pasta, three halves of hard-boiled eggs, and four slices of raw potato in a pyramid formation.

Balanced Diet
Photograph
14.5”x22”
Fall 2020
ART 323
Photograph of a small piece of a french fry, two pieces of pasta, three halves of hard-boiled eggs, and four slices of raw potato in a pyramid formation.

Magenta Sunrise
Photograph
9”x13”
Spring 2014
Personal Photo Shoot
Close up photograph of a magenta Dahlia flower with the background blurred.

Covid Portrait
Photograph
13”x19”
Fall 2020
ART 323
Black and white portrait with dramatic lighting of a woman with a mask on.

An illustration on the top half of the poster of a side portrait view of a woman with white hair covering most of her face, wearing a dark purple tank top. The woman is sitting at the bank of a river, and the background is foggy. The bottom half of the poster is a dark blue color block behind light blue text. The text of the poster is mostly left aligned starting at the top of the poster, a small portion of the text is slightly indented towards the middle of the poster. the color block has two columns of te

ORI Poster, Bookmark, and Brochure.
Digital Illustration/InDesign
11x17 in
Spring 2021
ART 414
An illustration on the top half of the poster of a side portrait view of a woman with white hair covering most of her face, wearing a dark purple tank top. The woman is sitting at the bank of a river, and the background is foggy. The bottom half of the poster is a dark blue color block behind light blue text. The text of the poster is mostly left aligned starting at the top of the poster, a small portion of the text is slightly indented towards the middle of the poster. the color block has two columns of text.

Vertical photograph of a mountainside with a stream running down the middle that has ice and snow in it. The clouds are obscuring the top of the mountain, leading down to dark grey shall on the mountainside. The shall transitions into dark green foliage. The bottom is washed in sunlight, making the foliage a brilliant medium green-yellow. There is a small rainbow in the bottom left corner over the teal water.

Alaskan Rainbow
Photograph
18x24 in
June 2018
Personal Photo shoot
Vertical photograph of a mountainside with a stream running down the middle that has ice and snow in it. The clouds are obscuring the top of the mountain, leading down to dark grey shall on the mountainside. The shall transitions into dark green foliage. The bottom is washed in sunlight, making the foliage a brilliant medium green-yellow. There is a small rainbow in the bottom left corner over the teal water.

The composition consists of an illustrative photo collage of Lake Ontario’s bank with a dark green bar across the bottom that has white text saying “Stop and see the beauty around you.”. The illustrative collage is a view of Lake Ontario from behind some vegetation that has a Boreal Owl camouflaged and sleeping. There is also a deer in the foreground looking at the viewer. Out on the water there is a sail boat with a rainbow sail, and in the air are four seagulls at varying distances from the viewer.

WALO (We Are Lake Ontario)
Digital Illustration/Illustrator
18x24 in
Fall 2019
ART 413
The composition consists of an illustrative photo collage of Lake Ontario’s bank with a dark green bar across the bottom that has white text saying “Stop and see the beauty around you.”. The illustrative collage is a view of Lake Ontario from behind some vegetation that has a Boreal Owl camouflaged and sleeping. There is also a deer in the foreground looking at the viewer. Out on the water there is a sail boat with a rainbow sail, and in the air are four seagulls at varying distances from the viewer.

LVOC Calendar
Digital Illustration
10x11 in
Spring 2019
ART 307
A square composition illustrated in an isometric view point. There is a non-gendered faceless figure sitting in a roller chair at a desk writing on an open notepad with books scattered on the desktop. There is a figure standing at the edge of the desk helping the seated figure work on the work.

A stamp that has a light green background with gold celtic knots in the four corners. In the middle at the top it reads “Ireland” in a serif font with “USA 55” under it in a sans serif font. Underneath the text there is an illustration of traditional irish dancing shoes. One is a traditional shoe a girl would wear, the shoe is made of black leather with long laces that wrap around the foot, they are similar to a ballet slipper. The other is a hard shoe, the hard shoes are leather shoes with raised tips and

Irish Stamp
Digital Illustration
1.25x1.25 in
Spring 2019
ART 307
A stamp that has a light green background with gold celtic knots in the four corners. In the middle at the top it reads “Ireland” in a serif font with “USA 55” under it in a sans serif font. Underneath the text there is an illustration of traditional irish dancing shoes. One is a traditional shoe a girl would wear, the shoe is made of black leather with long laces that wrap around the foot, they are similar to a ballet slipper. The other is a hard shoe, the hard shoes are leather shoes with raised tips and heels that are covered in fiberglass in order to make a tapping noise when dancing, what we know as tap shoes.

The top of the has a small bar of light blue “wall” with black text over it. The middle of the poster is a large illustration of toy letter blocks on a geometrical black and grey rug. The block in the front has three sides visible: the top has an orange image of a nondescript face with half looking “male” with a bow tie and half looking “feminine” with a bun on its head and long hair, the right side has a pink image is a full “female” face with a bun on its head and long hair, and the left side has a dark b

Fun Home Series
Digital Illustration/InDesign
11x17 in
Spring 2021
ART 396
The top of the has a small bar of light blue “wall” with black text over it. The middle of the poster is a large illustration of toy letter blocks on a geometrical black and grey rug. The block in the front has three sides visible: the top has an orange image of a nondescript face with half looking “male” with a bow tie and half looking “feminine” with a bun on its head and long hair, the right side has a pink image is a full “female” face with a bun on its head and long hair, and the left side has a dark blue image of a “male” face with short hair and a bow tie. Then there are four letter blocks behind the front block: one has red R’s on it, one has light blue B’s on it, one has black K’s on it, and the last one has yellow Y’s on it. The bottom of the piece has a black color block behind white text that is mostly center aligned.