Shane Guffogg

Book of Secrets, pg. 11, 2006

Oil on canvas

12 x 10” (image)

17 ¼ x 15 ½” (frame)

Shane Guffogg was born in Los Angeles, and raised on an exotic bird farm in the San Joaquin Valley. He received his B.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts, and during his studies he interned with Gary Stephan. In 2004, he co-founded Pharmaka, a non-profit artist group based in Los Angeles.  Guffogg’s works contain their own language of sign and symbol, where their patterning, visual depth, and light simultaneously refer to emotion, the human spirit, and to the unseen worlds of Quantum Physics and Super String Theory.  He works with oil on canvas and paper, watercolor, gouache, and pastel on paper, in addition to traditional etchings on zinc plates, ranging in size from 10'' x 8" to 10' x 8'. His oils typically have 60-70 layers of translucent colors that have been mixed with a glazing medium, causing the paintings to seem illuminated from within.