Shannon Macgregor

Shannon MacGregor is a conceptual painter / graphic artist who has been living and working in the NY metro area for over ten years. MacGregor first grasped the aesthetics of contemporary design through exposure to street art in the American Northeast. Learning design fundamentals like symmetry and line definition, Macgregor rehearsed these skills in a wildstyle graffiti format that was prevelant in New York during the early and mid-ninties.
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In the later half of the decade though, experimentation was beginning to occur in graffiti as the culture spread overseas. The artform had matured past its domestic containment; and new styles emerged from artists who had been previously excluded geographically. These artists had the benefit of "looking from the outside in", and more character driven, three-dimensional lettering appeared. When magazines began to emerge with evidence of this turning point from artists like Erni and Daim, it had a lasting effect on the painter. Eventually, the concept of using negative spaces and three-dimensional structures led MacGregor to the creation of larger, complex landscapes that were similar to what he found in his own cursory research of the surrealists. Having at this point in his late teens tak...

Self taught, through and through