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click images to enlarge     Book of Secrets Chapter 1, Page 7, 2006 Oil on canvas 24" x 30"   Book of Secrets Chapter 7, 2006 Oil on canvas 50" x 60"   Mermer, 2006 Oil on canvas 50" x 60"   Page 12, 2nd Paragraph, 2006 Charcoal and pigment on paper 16" x 12"   Book of Secrets Chapter 1, Page 3, 2006 Pigment on paper 15" x 19.5"   Book of Secrets Chapter 1, 2006 Oil on canvas 16" x 16"

Shane Guffogg             | bio |   Shane Guffogg was born in Los Angeles and raised on an exotic bird farm in the San Joaquin Valley.  His interest in painting began as a child and was cemented as a teenager when he traveled to Europe at the age of 17 doing the traditional backpack and sleeping bag summer tour. In 1989 he traveled through the former Soviet Union, visiting many Soviet artists in their studios and the great Russian Museums.  He received his B.F.A. from Cal Arts, and spent a semester in New York where he interned with Gary Stephan. He relocated to Los Angeles, where he worked as a studio assistant for Ed Ruscha from 1989 to 1995.  His work began exploring the iconography of Ancient, Classical, Renaissance, Modern, and Contemporary cultures, as well as 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. Guffogg works in oils on canvas and paper, watercolor, gouache, and pastel on paper, in addition to traditional etchings on zinc plates.  The size of the work ranges from the intimacy of 10” x 8” to the monumental 10’ x 8.’  His oils typically have 60-70 layers of translucent colors that have been mixed with a glazing medium in the fashion of the old masters, which causes the paintings to seem illuminated from within. The artist makes his home in Hollywood with his wife and son.  He is a founding member of Pharmaka, and he is currently working on an on-going collaboration with the Murano Glass Masters   _________________________________________   BIO             1962   Born in Los Angeles, California 1985   B.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California 1985   Internship with Gary Stephan, New York, New York 1989 --1996 Studio assistant to Ed Ruscha 1999   "Symposium - Printmaking: The Collaborative Art" Panelist at LACMA 2003    Founding member of PHARMAKA 2004   Guest Lecturer SCAD “The Search for Truth in the Land of Make Believe, A Good Painting Cannot Lie”  Savannah, Georgia Solo Exhibitions 2006   Painting with Light, Studio Blue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005  “Between Heavens”, Barone Odom Gallery, Rome, Italy 2004   When Each Was Both, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, Ill, 2004   D2 Arts Los Angeles, California 2000   Featured Artist / Grossart.com 1999   New Paintings / Transamerica Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1998   Stills / Corridor Gallery, Los Angeles, California continued 1997   Stills / Corridor Gallery, Los Angeles, California Reviewed L.A. Weekly, Pick of the Week 1996   Paintings and works on Paper from 1992-1996 / Richard Iri Loft Laguna, California, 1995   New Paintings / Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles California reviewed L.A. Times   Group Exhibitions 2006    “Fin”  Bedlam Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006    “How it Happens”  Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005   “Liquid Los Angeles: Currents of Contemporary Watercolor Painting". Pasadena Museum, Pasadena, CA curated by Leslie Jones 2005   “Incognito”  Santa Monica Museum Santa Monica, CA 2005    “Small Wonders” Pharmaka Gallery Los Angeles, CA 2005    “Taste” The Back Space/ GrossArt West Hollywood, CA 2005   “Full Moon; The collection of Paul Ruscha” Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005   “Venice 2 Venice”   Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005   “Art @ Home” Hill Street Loft/ GrossArt  Los Angeles, CA 2005   “Blue”  Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005   “Venice 2 Venice”  V and A Gallery, Venice, Italy 2005   "Mostracollettiva.03 ossessioni ossessive".Barone Odom, Rome Italy 2005   Inside The Box/ Pharmaka, Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA. Outside the Box / Pharmaka-Art, Los Angeles, CA Reviewed by Peter Frank LA Weekly Pick of the Week 2004   Inaugurazione, Barone Odom Galleria D’Arte Contemporanea, Rome Italy 2004    Reality of Abstraction, Abstraction of Reality Shane Guffogg and John Scane  Curated by Adam Gross /GrossArt, Greystone Mansion, Beverly Hills, CA 2004    Modus Operandi, Michael Folonis, AIA, Santa Monica, CA  curated byDonna Napper 2004    Pharmaka, Bedlam Downtown, Los Angeles, CA, reviewed Coagula 2004    “Incognito”  Santa Monica Museum Santa Monica, CA 2004    Pharmaka, Bedlam Gallery Hillhurst, Los Angeles, CA 2004    Pharmaka, Corridor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2003    Courtyard Eleven, Corridor Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2003    Hypertension Color, Thema Gallery, Santa Monica, California, curated by Chip Tom 2003    California 10 Contemporary/ Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, Ill. Curated by Chip Tom 2002    Merging Artist/ Spike Gallery NY, NY reviewed NYC Gallery Guide 2002    Colors/ Sandroni Rey Gallery, Venice, CA Curated by Paul Rusconi 2000    Featured artist on Grossart.com 2000    Featured artist on Artnet.com, Abstraction of the 20th Century 2000    Works On Paper / Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, California 1999    BIG / Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, California  Art for Tennessee Williams / The Zoo District, Los Angeles, California            Reviewed in LA Times 1999   Drawn from the Artist Collections / The Armand Hammer Museum Los Angeles, California catalogue available Reviewed on KCRW Art Talk, reviewed L.A Weekly, Pick of the Year 1999   Drawn from the Artist Collections / The Drawing Center New York  reviewed in N.Y. Times by Roberta Smith May 21st, 1999 Hamilton Press Prints / University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Fred Jones Jr. Museum  catalogue available 1997    Hamilton Press Prints / Pomona College, Pomona, California 1996    One Apiece / The Corridor Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1996    Inaugural Show / RISK Loft, Laguna, California 1996    Six for Ninety Six / Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1995    International Artists Works on Paper / Fahrid Chaib Contempary Art, 1995    L.A. Artists / Fahrid Chaib Contempary Art, Venice, Ca. 1995    Museum Print Show / Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, California 1994    Evening of Masque / Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, California 1994    The Gramercy / AMO Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1994    Senses Of Reality / Soma Gallery, San Diego, California 1994    Serious Beauty II / Stuart Katz Gallery, Laguna, California Curated by Irit Krieger reviewed Orange County, LA Times 1993    Serious Beauty / Metropolitan Museum, Los Angeles, California Curated by Irit Krieger 1993    Gallery Artist Group Show / The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, California 1993    What's Next! / Soma Gallery, San Diego, California 1993    Focus: The Integrity of Structure / The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, 1993    Los Angeles Aids Project / Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, California 1992    Gallery Artist Opening Show / Soma Gallery, San Diego, California 1991   Abstraction for the Information Age The Works Gallery Costa Mesa, CA.Curated by Irit Krieger 1991   New Circle: American and Soviet Paintings / Martin Luther King Center, Washington D.C. Catalogue  available 1989    Painters and Photographers / Wade Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1987    Alumni Exhibition / California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California   - back to top -

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