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Shields, Lou
Medium
oil painting
Profession
gallerist
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Contact the artist
Website: exp gallery |
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ARTIST BIO
Education:
2002 M.F.A. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
Concentration: Oil Painting (Drawing)
2000 M.A. Governors State University, University Park, Illinois
Concentration: Mixed Media, Painting and Sculpture
1998 B.A. Governors State University, University Park, Illinois
Concentration: Acrylic Painting and Lost Wax Bronze Sculpture
Work Related Experience:
2006 Asst. Professor tenure track, Art History, Studio, Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL
2005 Asst. Professor tenure track, Art History, Studio, Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL
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STATEMENT
I am a tenure track art professor and have recently been consumed with developing an Art History/studio curriculum. I am now finally getting time to make art again. I have the destructive habit of completely reinventing my subject, media and artistic philosophy every few years. After four years of making paintings that emulate the natural world, I decided to take another 180 - degree turn. I am currently working with many ideas through several series of small works and developing imagery and techniques that are new to me.
I am working with acrylic paint in a way that is completely different from my recent work. Which was using traditional oil painting techniques to represent natural objects. Rather than attempting to create an illusion of nature I am trying to make my acrylics to look as plastic and synthetic as possible. Acrylic paint is plasticc and I am no longer trying to make naturalist illusions with material that was made in a lab.
I occasionally return to oil painting, 3-D and am working in digital video/sound media as well. So what you are seeing is the studio of an artistts creative over-hall. I hope to eventually bring the stronger points together and combine the traditional with the degenerate, new-media with old. Or, continue to do several separate series based on style, media, content. Some of the hazards of combining a studio concentrate with art history.
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