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Artist Statement:
Shawn McNulty is a Minneapolis
artist exploring areas of
Abstract Expressionism. His
work is
influenced
by artists such as Hans
Hoffman, Mark Rothko, Richard
Diebenkorn, Rauschenberg,
Frankenthaler, Warhol, and
Jean-Michel Basquiat. "My
style explores the
relationship between man-made
structures and the
natural world; the idea of
recognizable shapes ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Fox Tax Gallery - 1014 Rearted
Hopkins Center for the Arts -
Best in Show
Bloomington Art Center
Chaska Community Center
NEMAA Fall Arts Show
(Honorable Mention
Buffalo Fish Fine Art
St. Paul Art Crawl
Minneapolis Art-a-Whirl
Rosalux Gallery - Large
Abstract Contemporary
Paintings
La Bodega De Tapas -
Minneapolis
Urban Bean - ...
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Collections:
Hayden-McNeil Publishing
Builder's Association of
Minnesota
President Bill Clinton
MN Governor Jesse Ventura
The Leade Group
Hi-Wire Productions
Griffith/Burkhardt Productions
Net Perceptions
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Commissions:
Midland Country Club (20
paintings), Michigan, USA
Setai Fifth Avenue Hotel (200
prints), New York, USA
Paramount Pictures,
California, USA
Thomas Dewitt, Sacramento,
California, USA
M-Tech Information Technology,
Calgary, Canada
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Reviews for Shawn Mc Nulty:
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"There’s something about Shawn McNulty’s color fields that won’t let you relax completely. A bit of rough play with the palette knife, and an otherwise calm pool of paint becomes a choppy sea. By scraping, slicing and reapplying, McNulty avoids the zone-out of traditional abstract landscapes, offering instead a more battered and complex meditation. A small retrospective in the basement of Rosalux Gallery — the art space McNulty helped found, back in 2002 — gives us a sense of how he arrived at this point. The eight-year scope of work includes some cool ideas that McNulty flirted with but never developed, such as stretching canvases behind window panes and collaging text with pop art imagery." - Gregory J. Scott - Minneapolis Star Tribune 2009
“It’s like looking into something very deep. You could fall in.” So said a transfixed account exec about a Rothko painting in an episode of “Mad Men.” Such a reaction could also be provoked by the colorful, abstract paintings of Shawn McNulty, whose newest works will be on display in a split show with Scott Wenner at Rosalux. Though the depth of color in McNulty’s work seems to reference Rothko, his canvases lack the abstract expressionist’s soft edges; instead, each piece is distinguished by gritty brush strokes, horizontal lines and distinct division of color. For his part, Wenner will exhibit a new series of ink and layered gouache paintings of ruined structures that reflect themes of defeat and destruction. - Jahna Peloquin - Minneapolis Star Tribune 2009
"Shawn McNulty has perhaps the most innovative art in the show, painting in oils with an unrivaled sense of color and shape. His abstract paintings illustrate how the effective use of simple symbiotic patterns can be just as gripping as traditional portraits."
- J.P. Johnson - Pulse Twin Cities 2002
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