Spotlight Artist

Shane Walsh

Midwest
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Prank Call

Abstract painting with colorful geometric and organic shapes overlapping in vibrant hues.

acrylic and oil on canvas

Caboose

Abstract colorful painting with bold shapes, lines, and a vivid red background.

acrylic and oil on canvas

Nerve Twin

Abstract painting with colorful geometric shapes, lines, and splashes on a dark background.

acrylic and oil on canvas

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Artist Statement

Shane Walsh makes paintings that borrow from historical abstraction and graphic imagery. Approaching painting as a form of collage, he playfully dissects and then reconstructs visual languages to arrive at a form of abstract painting that is both autobiographical and historically aware. This cut-and-paste ethos is a direct result of his involvement with various subcultures of the 1990s. His omnivorous appetite for visual culture results in a wide array of references, quotations, techniques, and materials that ultimately fuse into Frankenstein-like compositions, melded but never seamless.

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