Shaun LaRose Bio: I currently live in Chattanooga Tennessee with my wife Sember and our five kids. I have been a studio artist since 1999. I moved to Austin, Tx. in 2000 and worked with a couple of local studio and public artists. Doug Jaques was my teacher and mentor and continues to inspire me with his stirring and ethereal images. I moved to Minneapolis in 2001 and worked as a public artist specializing in commercial murals. It was here that I met my wife and was faced with working as a commercial artist, providing for a family and striving to make time to develop my studio work. In 2004 my wife and I decided to move to Chattanooga to develop my studio work. The city was growing to be a southeastern hub for the arts and was offering tangible ways to support its local artists. Shortly thereafter, we came into difficult times with health issues on our family and I was faced with the difficult decision to abandon that pursuit and find work of any kind. When looking for supplemental work, I have always sought out something to tie in to my own work. I happened upon a local artist who needed an assistant at the time and I learned invaluable methods for using a variety of materials, and framing methods. Thanks to these experiences, my work has been developed through my time spent with other artists in a variety of genre and profession as well as my inspiration to learn the methods and techniques of historic artists. Dali said that an artist should learn how to paint like the masters as then they can paint anything they want. I have adopted this philosophy and studied artists like Maxfield Parrish, who have helped to define my glazing techniques. In the most recent body of work one can see how my content and form have developed a new kind of relationship. The work uses symbol and figurative based narratives to tell stories about living in the tension of the past, present, and future hope. My developed style reflects this content with fragmented compositions, abstracted atmospheres juxtaposed with geometric designs, and representational figures steeped in tense emotions. This is the culmination of my own personal journey and healing, and my study of art from other artists as well as historic art movements. |
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