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Tri State Sculptors/members/Shelnutt
| Greg Shelnutt |
shelnuttg@uncsa.edu |
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Title: Thrift, Thrift, Consumer Description: Hand sewn "eco-friendly" grocery bags Dimensions: six bags at 18 x 10 x 7 inches (plus handles) Medium: polypropylene, embroidery floss, steel, brass & thread Date Created: 2009 Location: collection of the artist |
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Title: Bendigo Collapsible House Description: collapsible and wearable steel frame house Dimensions: 33 x 19 x 24 inches Medium: steel & brass Date Created: 2008-9 Location: collection of the artist |
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Title: Arbeit Macht Frei Description: Originally a part of Wilmington, NC's Cameron Art Museum's exhibition, "Art & Social Conscience: HOLOCAUST" (May 2 - October 19, 2008. "This exhibition, the first in the museum's 'Art and Social Conscience' series, features works by art faculty members from 11 of the 16 branches of the University of North Carolina system. Artists were asked to address the Holocaust and its larger context of mankind's inhumanity to man, and many responded with new work created for the exhibition. Dimensions: 67 x 54 x 114, inches Medium: steel, wood, brass Date Created: 2008 Location: collection of the artist |
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Title: Black Hearth Dimensions: 11 ¼ x 4 ½ x 3 ½ inches Medium: graphite, steel & brass Date Created: 2008 Location: 10th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition |
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Title: Arbeit Macht Frei Description: Originally a part of Wilmington, NC's Cameron Art Museum's exhibition, "Art & Social Conscience: HOLOCAUST" (May 2 - October 19, 2008. "This exhibition, the first in the museum's 'Art and Social Conscience' series, features works by art faculty members from 11 of the 16 branches of the University of North Carolina system. Artists were asked to address the Holocaust and its larger context of mankind's inhumanity to man, and many responded with new work created for the exhibition. Dimensions: 67 x 54 x 114, inches Medium: steel, wood, brass Date Created: 2008 Location: collection of the artist |
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Title: Home Fires Dimensions: Medium: steel, concrete, wood, brass, bronze, earth, mixed Date Created: 2007 Location: Collection of the Artist |
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Title: Home Fires (detail: Weather Vane) Dimensions: Medium: Bronze, steel & brass Date Created: 2007 Location: Collection of the Artist |
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Title: Chicago Majestic Dimensions: Medium: found tripod, found & altered wood, mixed Date Created: 2007 Location: Collection of the Artist |
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Title: Chicago Majestic Dimensions: Medium: found tripod, found & altered wood, mixed Date Created: 2007 Location: Collection of the Artist |
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Title: Target Description: Collaboration with Mark E. Brown Dimensions: Medium: found & altered stand, bronze, steel & brass Date Created: 2007 Location: Collection of the Artist |
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Title: Target (detail: bronze chair) Description: Collaboration with Mark E. Brown Dimensions: Medium: found & altered stand, bronze, steel & brass Date Created: 2007 Location: Collection of the Artist |
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Title: Pyrrhic Victory Dimensions: Medium: found & manipulated steel, bronze, brass & copper Date Created: 2006 Location: Collection of the Artist |
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Title: Flight Description: Collaboration with Mark E. Brown. Fabricated wood, steel, and copper cart, filled with cast chalk loaves of bread, with copper & steel dog suspended on chain. Dimensions: dimensions variable Medium: steel, copper, wood, chalk, latex Date Created: 2004 |
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Title: Flight [detail: dog] Dimensions: 2 1/2 x 6 x 2 ft. Medium: copper, steel & latex Date Created: 2004 |
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Title: Flight [detail: bread] Dimensions: variable Medium: cast chalk Date Created: 2004 |
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Title: Font Dimensions: dimensions variable, approx. 104 x 55 x 80 inches Medium: steel, copper, wood, brass, & rope Date Created: 2003-5 Location: Collection of the Artist |
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Title: Subdivision Dimensions: 3 units @ 18 x 16 x 16 inches Medium: steel, brass, cement & mixed Date Created: 2003 Location: Collection of the Artist |
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Title: Homeland Security Night Light Description: Elongated, vertical, house frame made of tubular steel, with cement house and electric light. Dimensions: 76 x 18 x 18 inches Medium: steel, brass, cement & mixed Date Created: 2003 Location: Collection of the Artist |
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Title: Safe House Description: Sewn sheet lead house suspended by braided copper wire in found steel fence frame. Dimensions: 17 x 10 x 10 inches Medium: lead, steel (found), copper, & brass Date Created: 2003 Location: Collection of the Artist |
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Title: Domestic Escape Dimensions: 30 x 42 x 8 inches Medium: wood, lead, found & mixed Date Created: 2002 Location: Collection of the Artist |
| Web sites that feature work by Greg Shelnutt |
| http://www.uncsa.edu/visualarts/ -- Visual Arts Program, The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC |
| Artist's Bio |
B.F.A.: 1985, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. M.F.A.: 1988, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. Greg Shelnutt lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where he has been a member of the Visual Arts faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts since June of 2000. In 2005, he was appointed Director of the Visual Arts Program at UNCSA. From 1988 to May of 2000, he taught ...... more |
| Artist's Statement |
As a sculptor, I am primarily concerned with the manifestation of ideas through the manipulation of form. I think of my sculpture as a form of story telling, be it forceful and overt or subtle and mysterious in its approach. I endeavor to create works that provoke the viewer into questioning accepted notions about culture. Sculpture particularly asks us to investigate the assumptions we must make ...... more |