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Unless collections are noted all pieces are available for purchase.
For some time now I have been building a collection of photographs through purchase and barter. This collection is a great source of inspiration, reference and historical documentation for me and my family.
Please contact me if you wish to trade prints for prints.
sheltonw at earthlink dot net
73 Warren Street #4
Brooklyn, NY 11201
917.273.4501
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bio
- 1963
- born Pampa, Texas
- 1969-1973
- Elvis impersonator
- 1975
- meet lifelong friend and collaborator Steve Cooley
- 1982
- attend college briefly Texas Tech Lubbock,Texas;meet mentors Jackie Decker and Courtenay Mathey who encourage artistic endeavor
- 1984-1986
- work at Studtman Photo in Austin shooting real estate salesmen portraits
- 1987
- receive scholarship at The San Antonio Art Institute, study drawing with Carl Embrey
- 1987-1992
- show photographs and paintings with art director Julie Eskoff, Austin,Texas
- 1991
- collaborative painting exhibit with Steve Cooley at Dobie Theatre, Austin, Texas
- 1992
- paintings shown at Firestone Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 1993
- move to Europe; make collage, watercolors, photographs. Create Mezi-Hradi Books to hand bind and sell blank sketchbooks.
- 1993
- in Prague Richard Giles introduces me to pinhole photography
- 1993-1994
- teach Czech kids art with multimedia artist Amy Dolin
- 1994
- mixed media exhibit at The Globe Bookstore, Prague
- 1993-1997
- photographs and paintings are used by Harcourt Brace as book jacket illustration
- 1995
- move to San Diego to execute painting for 13 jackets for the books of Italo Calvino
- 1995
- collaborate on artists book,"Gargantuan My Desire" with playwright Julie Myatt
- 1997
- move to New York City
- 1998
- meet mentor/collector/master printer Chuck Kelton
- 1998
- photographs exhibited by Gary Hustwit at Incommunicado Press, NYC
- 1998
- marries Kassia Bratina
- 1999
- photographs shown at Monique Goldstrom Gallery NYC
- 2000
- paintings shown at Virgil Skye Gallery San Francisco, California
- 2001
- birth of son Giles Willowbee
- 2001
- collaborate on Loudmouth Collective book "Coming Up for Air" with multi-media artist Craig Foltz
- 2003
- paintings exhibited by Gary Hustwit Plexifilm SOHO offices, NYC
- 2004
- moves to Stonington,Connecticut
- 2005
- Debevoise collection photographs exhibited by Howard Park and Sarah Seip, Stonington Connecticut
Publications include Texas Architect, Austin American Statesman, Austin Chronicle, Stonington Times, Mystic River Press, Harcourt Brace; Harvest Books, Houghton Mifflin; Mariner Books, Knopf, Vintage Books, Winter and Winter Music (Munich), Sony Music, BMI Music, Galaxia Gutenberg (Barcelona), Loudmouth Collective, Perseus Books, DaCapo Books, Svenska Forlaget Books (Stockholm), W.W.Norton, Pantheon Books, The Paris Review. Upcoming publications; Acuarella Records(Madrid) and Rizzoli Books.