Carolyn Shattuck

KEY WEST: INSIDE/OUTSIDE
Carolyn Shattuck

In her wildly colored, abstract-plus-figurative art, Shattuck’s aim is to show connections and contrasts between the energy in the water and the energy on the street, reflecting the blend of lifestyles she experiences every year during her four months near Key West.  The collages depict two opposing aspects of the area: the loud, boisterous life of the ethnic neighborhoods with music, dancing, motorcycles versus the serenity of life out in a kayak viewing the denizens of the deep. The natural world has its own super-abundance: shore birds – plovers and sandpipers, horseshoe crabs, and other wildlife.  Shattuck documents this barrage of disparate information. 
 
The artist says that her work combines such experiences as the idyllic kayaking trips, where she sees “complexity and chaos in random harmony,” and then on the streets, the “cacophony of the Bahamian village, with chickens and music and dogs and cats and people sitting out on their porches yelling across the street.”  Petronia, a 30-inch-square collage, depicts a sea turtle, sea birds, shells, and marsh grasses in addition to crazy-quilt-type patterns and rollicking rhythms that conjure up the frenetic ethnic life.
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CAROLYN SHATTUCK
193 Patricia Lane, Rutland, VT 05701
shattuckgallery.com



EDUCATION

1985-1988 M.F.A. Milton Avery Graduate School, Bard College,NY
1982-1984 B.A. Fine Art, Johnson State College,VT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS-recent

2014 Speaking Volumes Castleton Downtown Gallery, Rutland, VT
2014 Book, Paper,Collage AVA Gallery, NH

2012 Key West: Inside/Outside WalkOver Gallery, Bristol, VT
2011 Wardrobe Chronicles Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, VT
2010 Speaking Volumes Salem, NY
2008 Feick Art Center Green Mt. College, VT
2008 Unstill Lifes Brick
2008 Printworks Goggleworks, Reading PA
2007 Unstill Lifes
 Bennington Museum, VT
2007 Books That Speak 

BMCC, New York City
2005 Ellen & Carolyn Shattuck Castleton State College
 VT
2002 Carving Studio & Sculpture Ctr. West Rutland,VT

2002 Helen Day Art Center Stowe, VT

2000 Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery S. Burlington VT
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1999 Visuals Arts Gallery Adirondack CC, Queensbury,NY
1999, Southern VT Art Center Manchester, VT
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1994,91 AVA Ga...

I participate in many Arts Festivals throughout the Northeast.
My Artist Books are collected by Special Book Collections.
The Smithsonian purchased 2 of them.
Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery