Shane
Guffogg was born in Los Angeles, 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 with Gary Stephan.
He relocated to Los Angeles, where he lived
in Venice Beach and worked as a Studio Assistant for Ed Rucha
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.
Guffogg works in oil on canvas and paper,
and 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 50-60 layers of translucent colors that have been mixed with
a glazing medium, which causes the paintings to seem illuminated
from within.
The artist makes his home in Hollywood with
his wife and son.
Web Site © Shane
Guffogg,
2008
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