Statement
After years of making large plaster and wood architectural sculptures
based on the idea of follies and architecture from the past, I have
taken the next artistic step of making frescoes. They are painted
on
plaster surfaces within small architectural spaces, and like the
previous collages in the architectural sculpture, show the passage of
time by their surface deterioration. In addition, I have made a group
of reliquaries. Some contain frescoes such as the pictured reliquary
which contains milkweed. The frescoes show the life cycle of the
Monarch butterfly which is tied to the milkweed. This series elevates
common objects from nature to the status of relics and is called "
Reverence For Nature".
RECENT
EXHIBITIONS
Culture and DNA - Science
Meets Art
Silvermine
Guild
New Canaan, CT
Portals of Change
Greenwich Library
Greenwich, CT
Regeneration:
Rebuilding Torn Societies
The United Nations
New York, NY
Artistic Fragments
Katonah Museum
Katonah NY
Weir
Farm Visiting Artists Exhibition
Stamford Museum
Stamford, CT
The
Sheltering Eye
Connecticut Commission on the Arts Gallery
Hartford, CT
The
New Age Of Fresco
Hasting-on-Hudson Gallery
Hasting-on-Hudson, NY
Infinite
Measure and Design by Nature
Discovery Museum
Bridgeport, CT
AWARDS
Connecticut Commission on the Arts Artist's Grant
Artists Space Inc. NY.- Artist's Exhibition Grant
Art of the Northeast-sculpture award
COLLECTIONS
Bell Atlantic Corporation
Mattuck
Museum
Hudson
River Museum
Housatonic
Museum
Stamford Museum and Nature Center
Sacred Heart University
The
artist may be contacted at:
shaw.stuart@sbcglobal.net
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