Gina Dawson lives and work in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Born in Dallas Texas in 1979. She received a BFA from the University of North Texas in 2002 and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2005 where she received a Dean's discresionary fund and a travel grant. She has been in multiple group exhibitions in the united states as well as in Germany and will be showing at Judy Rotenberg Gallery in May of 2010.This is her first solo show in France. Getting a rejection letter isn’t fun, neither is getting a funeral wreath. With that in mind, artist Gina Dawson decided to combine the generic rejection letter writing with funeral wreaths, surrounding the wreaths with knit sashes with the rejection. The rejection letter wreaths were made with the idea that funeral wreaths and rejection letters are both things given to people and are intended as consolation, but always fall short of being consoling. "These are funeral wreaths with text pulled from my personal rejection letters. I created these pieces after stitching some of my rejection letters and becoming fascinated with them. They are objects of consolation that can't possibly make up for the loss." "My current work addresses both the labor of being an artist and the disappointment that often comes with that choice.These letters, like work and death are all part of the life of being an artist." - Gina Dawson This work is still in progress.