BGuthrie Photos: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017A Winter Exhibit: Mike Shaffer: Towers & Monuments

DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017A Winter Exhibit: Mike Shaffer: Towers & Monuments:

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Description of Pictures: Mike Shaffer: Towers & Monuments
January 28 through March 12, 2017
Towers & Monuments presents sculptures and paintings that incorporate the artist's career-long fascination with grid-patterning and perpendicular stacking techniques, selected from a body of work created by the artist beginning in the early 1970s to the present. This exhibition highlights Shaffer's inventive combination of styles of Minimalism, Pop and Conceptual art and rooted in an empirical scientific method. Curated by Bobby Donovan.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. KATSHA_170127_008.JPG: Mike Shaffer Monument to Modern Times, 2001
2. KATSHA_170127_014.JPG: Mike Shaffer Monument to Peaks and Pinnacles, 2016
3. KATSHA_170127_025.JPG: Mike Shaffer Monument to the Innocence of the World's Young Children, 2013-2016
4. KATSHA_170127_031.JPG: Mike Shaffer Monument in Honor of the Ancient Towers of Lucca, 2004-2016
5. KATSHA_170127_046.JPG: Mike Shaffer Monument to the Rivivity of Darkness, undated
6. KATSHA_170127_059.JPG: Mike Shaffer Monument to the Immutable Whiteness of Snow, 2012
7. KATSHA_170127_066.JPG: Mike Shaffer Monument to the Great Green [???], 2010
8. KATSHA_170127_072.JPG: Mike Shaffer Homage to the Color Red, 2016
9. KATSHA_170127_078.JPG: Mike Shaffer Memorial for the Train They Call the City of New Orleans, 2016
10. KATSHA_170127_084.JPG: Mike Shaffer Monument to the Sun and Stars, 2009
11. KATSHA_170127_097.JPG: Mike Shaffer Monument to the Radiance of the Noonday Sun, 2016
12. KATSHA_170127_119.JPG: Mike Shaffer Plum Pie, 1988
13. KATSHA_170127_126.JPG: Mike Shaffer Remains of the Years, 2016
14. KATSHA_170127_131.JPG: Mike Shaffer Old Town Tower Ten, 1980
15. KATSHA_170127_152.JPG: Mike Shafer Patriotic Void, 1974
16. KATSHA_170127_156.JPG: The need to break away from the limitation of work for wall display came about when I realized I could rotate the whole assemblies 90 degrees so that the linear elements that were aligned along the plane of the wall could be stacked up to form vertical assemblies of grids. While the grid format had been a dominant force in my art making, in time it blended into tall tower shapes in all sizes and kinds of materials.
17. KATSHA_170127_162.JPG: Mike Shaffer Rags to Riches, 1975
18. KATSHA_170127_185.JPG: The works shown here have evolved over many years of art making. I was influenced early on by the pristine grid paintings of Agnes Martin and colorful rectangular works of Piet Mondrian. My first efforts in the 1970s, the days of minimalism and abstraction, were simple grid drawings in anything that would make marks on paper or canvas. Later, many large lined grid paintings expanded on this theme.
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