Shane Guffogg

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Full Name	Shane Guffogg
Occupation	Visual Artist
Date Of Birth	Aug 12, 1962(1962-08-12)
Age	62
Country	United States
Birth City	Los Angeles
Horoscope	Leo

Shane Guffogg Biography

Shane Guffogg is one of the most popular and richest Visual Artist who was born on August 12, 1962 in Los Angeles, United States. Guffogg was also influenced by the seascapes of William Turner that were created between 1835 and 1946, Mark Rothko’s most recent paintings on paper, work of Rembrandt and Jasper John’s early “Alphabet” paintings. Guffogg regards the series as a conversation with the artists who were the ones who inspired his work.

The year was 1985 and he got selected by Huebler as well as other faculty members of CalArts to take an intern program located in New York where he could work in museums, galleries or even as an assistant artist. Guffogg opted to work with New York artist, Gary Stephan. The duration of the internship was about six months. Guffogg decided to spend his time studying as well as watching Stephan work. He also decided not to produce any art during the time.

In 2003, Guffogg began meeting weekly with fellow artists John Scane and Vonn Sumner, and art dealer, Adam Gross, discussing art and the LA art scene. Guffogg created a manifesto for the group that explained the ideas discussed within the group. The manifesto became a constitution which would be called Pharmaka. The name Pharmaka was utilized after their dialogue became public when they opened it up through three exhibitions in Downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, and Los Feliz.

In 2004, Guffogg was approached by a Venetian art dealer that was looking to have a California artist collaborate with a Murano glass master. He then pursued this opportunity and went to Venice. There, he learned the history of Murano glassmaking. He collaborated with the glass master to display this negative space found with in his oil paintings in a three- dimensional sculpture form. Guffogg and the glass master proceeded with this, and “The Fifth Sound” Murano glass series came to fruition. Guffogg sees these pieces as extensions of his two-dimensional work. These pieces are hand blown and then sanded down so they appear more opaque. Some pieces in the series are also mirror coated as well.

Shane Guffogg (Guf-fogg; born on 12 August 1962) is an American artist who is associated with the movement of abstract art. He has been involved in the art forms of drawing, painting and sculpture. Guffogg resides and works in Los Angeles and Strathmore, California.

Shane Guffogg Net Worth

Shane Guffogg is one of the richest Visual Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shane Guffogg 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Guffogg’s fascination with art began from the age of seven. In the 1960s, his mother would accompany Guffogg on trips to libraries to borrow books. A lot of them included art-related books that contained images of artwork made by masters like Da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Van Gogh. He saw their work as awe- inspiring and wanted to become part of it. Since then, he would always draw or painting. Guffogg said “I would stare at a tube of paintthat I smelled and dab a small amount on my fingertips and think about what artists could do with this material and transform it into an work of art. I was thinking it was similar to magic, alchemy. That’s why I’ve always wanted become a magician in this sense.”

Guffogg was born in Los Angeles on the 12th of August 1962. When he was four the family relocated to Lindsay the small agricultural town located in the San Joaquin Valley. In 1975, the family relocated to Strathmore which was a town nearby due to the fact that they purchased an animal farm that was exotic. He was a part of the farm in his teens. In the latter part of the 1970s, Guffogg discovered his love in art, and persuaded his parents to allow him to create a studio on the farm. After graduating from high school in the year 1980, Guffogg went on a trip across Europe exploring art galleries during two weeks. In the fall of 1980, he started learning about art at an area community college in Tulare County. In the fall of 1983 he enrolled in the fine arts program at the California Institute of the Arts and was also referred to informally as “Cal Arts.” Attending Cal Arts was a recommendation by the artist Joe Goode after Guffogg visited his studio earlier in the year. Douglas Huebler became Guffogg’s mentor at Cal Arts because of his influence on the movement of conceptual art. He earned his B.F.A. at Cal Arts in 1985. He worked as an assistant for Ed Ruscha and Joe Goode from 1989 to 1995.

“The Fifth Sound” is the name of Guffogg’s Murano glass pieces. The inspiration that would later create this series came to Guffogg in 1997. He began drawing the negative space between the ribbons found in his oil paintings. Then Guffogg would fold the paper with the drawing of negative space in half then cut out the shape would appear as a mirrored image. These shapes created from negative space in his paintings spurred the idea of creating sculptures and would later become templates for the Murano glass series, “The Fifth Sound.”

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After that summer, Guffogg enrolled in Porterville College where he put all his focus on painting and studied art history. He felt that it was important to study art history because he felt that it was essential to understanding the art world if one wanted to be a part of it. He looked at it as if it were a conversation that had gone on for years and in order to be fully immersed in it, he must understand how the dialogue began. At the same time, he was curious about Einstein’s theory of relativity and space. After studying at CalArts he returned to Strathmore to live with his family and began painting fruit at the family’s farm. This homecoming changed his thoughts of how he could contribute to the dialogue of the masters. Guffogg explained, “I began wondering what thoughts look like before we attach language to them. I was also wanting to make paintings that hover between abstraction and realism – between what we see and what we sense.”

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Shane Ranked on the list of most popular Visual Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Shane Guffogg celebrates birthday on August 12 of every year.