Dorothy Shaw

Artist Statement

My paintings are definitely inspired by nature, and in many of them I have taken the forms of trees, and sometimes the birds that inhabit them, to create the building blocks of the landscapes that are to emerge—they are as well the protagonists in their environment as they delineate, move and interact with one another and the spaces around them.  While not adhering to realism but playing with the pictorial and the abstract, I wish to convey through memory an environment, a landscape, that conjures a real sense of place.  What fascinates me in painting, among other things, is exploring the 2-dimensional  surface and finding in it multiple frames of spatial perspectives and relationships with which to see through —what seems like  endless possibilities with the challenge of making them all work together in a unified way.

Resume

I have explored art and the history of ever since childhood.  As a teenager I studied privately with the painter, Corrine Gardner, who had received her training from the renowned Massachusetts College of Art.  I attended NYU where I studied Art graduating in 1971.  I separately attended a semester at Pratt Institute, and attended a summer program in 1967 at The Boston Museum School of Fine Arts.  My paintings have appeared in a number of juried and invitational group exhibits in NYC at the Pen and Brush Society, Viridian, Noho and Agora Galleries, a solo show at Around the Clock Cafe also in NYC in 2004.  I had a solo exhibit at the Port Washington Library’s  Gallery in 2012.    In 1989 I won first prize at the 6th Juried exhibit at The Fine Arts Museum of Long Island in Hempstead, NY which granted me a solo exhibit that same year.