Drawings, ink on paper
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(left) Shane Guffogg, 2020, July 21, ink on paper, 11.5 x 10 in.
(left-middle) Shane Guffogg, 2020, Neville, ink on paper, 11 ¾ x 8 ¾ in. Not for Sale
(middle) Shane Guffogg, 2020, Father and Son, ink on paper, 11 x 8.5 in.
(right) Shane Guffogg, 1981, Rembrandt’s Eyes, ink on paper, 11 x 14 in.
Live Feed Wednesday at 5:30pm (pst) with @shaneguffogg In this short talk we will discuss the artists work in the group exhibition, “Agent of Ordinary Pleasures” and his thoughts about “Rembrandt’s eyes” a drawing Guffogg did in #1981 about the great master and his ability to educate the viewer to see the world in a different light. Guffogg has been consciously making self-portraits from the very beginning of his career. How does this tradition of seeing bring meaning to his artistic practice?
ARTIST STATEMENT for drawings
Since my teens, I have been making pen and ink drawings of the eyes of famous old master paintings, most notable Rembrandt and Leonardo, and self-portraits. These drawings continue to bring great insight into how to see with my eyes and not with my mind. Then there is the added verbiage that eyes are the window to the human soul. Mesh these two concepts together, mixed with the cross-hatching technique of ink drawings, and it can make for a poignant moment of recognition as the observer is observed.
BIOGRAPHY
Shane Guffogg was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised on an exotic bird farm in the San Joaquin Valley. His interest in painting began while a teenager when he traveled to Europe and the former Soviet Union and was exposed to the Masters. He received his B.F.A. from Cal Arts, and during his studies, he interned in New York City.
He relocated to Los Angeles, where he lived in Venice Beach and worked as a Studio Assistant for Ed Ruscha from 1989 until 1995. His work began exploring the iconography of Ancient, Classical, Renaissance, Modern and Contemporary cultures, and the relationships among the various times and peoples. During this exploration, he found that painting is one of the few art forms that may express what language cannot. The resulting work contains its own language of sign and symbol, and in its patterning, visual depth, and light, simultaneously seems to refer to emotion, to the human spirit, and to the unseen worlds of Quantum Physics and Super String Theory.
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COLLECTIONS: Guffogg’s work is in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, The Imperial Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia, The Gallery of the Museum Center, Baku, Azerbaijan, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles and other public collections.
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