Kendall Shaw "Let There be Light"
Saint Peter's Church
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Born and raised in the multicultural milieu of New Orleans, Kendall Shaw's life as an artist began in earnest when he moved to New York, and has included friends and teachers such as Mark Rothko, George Rickey, Ralston Crawford, and Stuart Davis. Now eighty-seven, Shaw has for decades tirelessly cultivated the vital power of visual images, both as a practitioner and as a teacher at such schools as Hunter College and Columbia University.
The artist re-energized modernist abstraction with work that goes beyond strict abstract formalism to embrace a range of social, sexual, and other subject matter. His works, some completed with assistant David Vigo, include elements of perceptual realism, expressionist realism, and semiotic symbolism. Shaw has coined the term "surabstraction" to denote this multivalent and inclusive method of painting.
This new body of work, "Let There be Light," is Shaw's own idiosyncratic visual interpretation of traditional Bible stories.
[Image: Kendall Shaw "The Voice of the Turtle" (2011)]
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Schedule
from July 08, 2011 to August 15, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-07-13 from 18:30 to 20:30