Shelton Walsmith

"Despite strident efforts to paint the smallness of birds monuments persist. "

website: shelton walsmith dot com

Published by The Paris Review, Knopf, Vintage, Rizzoli Books, Paris Vogue, Pomegranate London, Aedra Fine Arts, Denver Quarterly,
Shots Magazine, Harper Collins, The New York Times and others.
Exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Prague, St.Thomas and Austin.
His most recent one man shows was at sevenminusseven gallery In the US Virgin Islands.

Personal interests; weather patterns, the inner life of trees, limes, irrationality, filigreed space, tequila, the middle ages, muay thai boxing, kittens, puppies, red wine, French New Wave cinema, sharp knives, lengths of twine rolled into balls for kittens to rut and nuzzle, cowboy britches, comedy jokes, rosemary short bread, blue moons, red squares, purple rain, carrot juice, my bidet, interiors, monumentality, audit remediation, the direction up.

profile pic: Self portrait holding Autumnal Brutalist collage January 26, 2022

Self taught self

February-May 2015 one man show at Queens College Art Center
April 2016 one man show -"The Last Two Years"sevenminusseven gallery St. Thomas USVI
July 2017 one man show- "The Amphibian's Daughter" sevenminusseven gallery St. Thomas USVI