Shaw Stuart, Artist Information

Statement:

"....it is always good to keep your eyes wide open, because you will never know what you will discover. The drive to live life more alertly being an instinctive need, whether you are an artist by trade or by desire, the art of seeing well is a necessary skill, which fortunately can be learned" - Michael Kimmelman chief art critic for the New York Times from his book,"The Accidental Masterpiece".

Objects from nature that I have found on my walks - simple but beautiful - peach pits, burrs, cicadas, milkweed and animal bones have been elevated to relics such as saint's bones were in the Middle Ages. These objects have been placed in reliquaries and decorated with brocades and jewels to show reverence for the beauty in everyday objects from nature.

Contact:

Shaw Stuartemail

Selected Exhibitions:

"The Tower of Sighs", Art/EX Gallery, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT
"Arcadian Memories", 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY
"Concept and Process", Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT
"Mirrors of the Soul", Left of the Bank Gallery, Old Greenwich, CT
"Artistic Fragments", Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY
"Redemption", University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT
"Regeneration: Rebuilding Torn Societies", The United Nations, New York, NY
"The Sheltering Eye", Connecticut Commission on the Arts Gallery, Hartford, CT
"Prostruction", Michael Ingbar Gallery of Architectural Art, New York, NY
National Sculpture Exhibition, DeLand Museum, DeLand, FL
3 Group Shows, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT

Grants:

The Connecticut Commission of the Arts
Artist's Space, NYC

Selected Collections:

Housatonic Museum
Hudson River Museum
Mattatuck Museum
Sacred Heart University
Preston A. Stuart Private Collection
Stamford Museum and Nature Center
Weir Farm National Park