Artist & Life Coach

Available World-wide                                                                        

Studio: Ajijic, Mexico

            Reynosa, Mexico

Mobile: 713-598-1081

email: tedshaw@me.com

website: www.tedshawartist.com

Born: Pasadena, Texas

 

Profile

My current body of work represents both a technical distillation of a lifelong art career and a, some-what-reluctant, out-flowing of otherworldly influences. My paintings are a performance of energy. It is a collaborative dance of elemental, universal, and personal creative forces.

I am a medium through which these forces express concepts and emotions. Color is the preeminent tool I use to represent the inexorable mingling between universe and ego. Color invokes pure meaning from our primordial minds clear through to our highest imaginative processes. Color is felt as intensely as our eyes perceive it and our minds decode it.

The very interaction between the viewer and the object viewed is the completion of the narrative, different and unique to each minds' perspective: the painted image is incomplete without the viewer.

In our post-postmodernist world, spinning at cyber-speed, interactions between individuals become a fluid matrix that must not be stagnated by convention, all images, which are contrived to represent, are almost instantly scanned, labeled, and filed in our minds. In order to reach a new perspective through image, the image must evade the minds filing system, if only for a moment, and allow for imagination to affect the object.

                                                                 

Mediums & Skills

Traditional linseed-based oils, alkyd-based oils, poly and mono acrylic urethanes & epoxies, water-based acrylics, alcohol inks, watercolor, gouache, charcoal, pen & ink, graphite, airbrush, gold & silver leaf gilding, glass carving & etching, glue-chipping, wood carving, sandblasting, Papier-mâché, carpentry, welding, metal forging, lost-wax casting, pottery, hand-lettering, calligraphy. Certified Life Coach, Certified Master Firewalking Instructor and Firewalking Seminar Facilitator, Certified Clinical Hypnotist, Certified NLP Practitioner. Certified Matrix Energetics Practitioner. Business management.

 

Professional Work Experience

 

1976 – Present

Professional Fine & Commercial Artist

2008 - Present

Co-Founder, keynote speaker, facilitator and F.I.R.E.- certified Master Firewalking Instructor for Boundless Achievements Seminar Group.

2007 - 2016

Co-founder of Real Estate investment and management companies, Watertight Property Management LLC, Unlimited Growth Investments LLC and Shaw Investments.

2004 - 2007

Sales Manager and Success Coach for Home Depot and Aflac Insurance Company.

1992 - 2004

Co-founder of Shaw Roofing, Siding and construction Corporation, a home improvements company serving the Houston, Texas market.

1976-1991

Owned and operated A.B.S Sign Art in Fort Worth, Texas. We prided ourselves on designing and producing Impressions for Discriminating Clients. Our client list included numerous high-profile clients such as the Texas Rangers Baseball Team, Putt-Putt Golf & Games, Marvel Comics, Channel 5 NBC Television Studios, Kawasaki Motorcycles, AT&T, US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, Kenny Rodgers, The City of Fort Worth, The Texas County of Tarrant, Billy Bob’s Indoor Rodeo in Fort Worth Texas, ABC - American Broadcasting Company, Oak Creek Homes Mobile Home Manufacturing Company, Palm Village Homes Mobile Home Manufacturing Company, and many others.

 

Gallery Exhibitions

2015-2016 Fusion Art Gallery, Ajijic, Mexico

2016 Jomar Visions Gallery, Houston, Texas

2015 Spectra Galleries, NASA, Houston, Texas

2012 The Woodlands Art League Art Gallery, Woodlands, Texas

2011 The Woodlands Art League Art Gallery, Woodlands, Texas

2010 The Woodlands Art League Art Gallery , Woodlands, Texas

2010 Wind Water Gallery, The Heights of Houston, Texas

2010 Heights Modern Gallery, Greater Heights, Texas

2005 iRelax Art Gallery, Hot Springs, Ar.

2004 Eastman Art Gallery, Houston, Texas

1976 Eagle’s Nest Art Gallery, Kemah, Texas

 

Solo Exhibitions

2012 Dallas Hypnosis Convention, Dallas, Texas

2011 Sundance Yoga Studio, Friendswood, Texas

2011 Dallas Hypnosis Convention, Dallas, Texas

2010 LifePath Unlimited Convention, Cancun, Mexico

2009 Sundance Yoga Studio, Friendswood, Texas

2009 LifePath Unlimited Convention, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands

2008 Sundance Yoga Studio, Friendswood, Texas

2007 Texas Renaissance Festival, Plantersville, Texas

2006 Crystal Odyssey, Clear Lake Shores, Texas

2006, CenterPoint, Houston, Texas

2006 Sundance Yoga Studio, Friendswood, Texas

2005 Spiritual Fitness Center, Dallas, Texas

2005 Eagle Heart Center, Friendswood, Texas

2005 CenterPoint, Houston, Texas

2005 Crystal Odyssey, Clear Lake Shores, Texas

2005 Eagle Heart Center, Friendswood, Texas

2005 Sundance Yoga Studio, Friendswood, Texas

2004 Eagle Heart Center, Friendswood, Texas

2004, CenterPoint, Houston, Texas

2004 Crystal Odyssey, Clear Lake Shores, Texas

2004 Natural School of Metaphysics, Dallas, Texas

2004 Hired Hands Day Spa, Friendswood, Texas

2004 Sundance Yoga Studio, Friendswood, Texas

 

Group Exhibitions

2016 Fusion Art Gallery, Ajijic, Mexico

2016 Lake Chapala Society Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Ajijic, Mexico

2016 Art Society of Ajijic Exhibition, Ajijic, Mexico

2015 Art Society of Ajijic Exhibition, Ajijic, Mexico

2013 Pearland Art League Corks & Canvas Art Show “Wild at Heart”, Pearland Natatorium, Pearland, Texas

2011 TEDx Event held in Lone Star College, The Woodlands, Texas

2010 Houston Art Crawl, Houston, Texas

2009 Blossom Street Gallery, Houston, Texas

2007 BayFest Art Fair, Seabrook, Texas

2005 Gallery Walk, Hot Springs, Arkansas

2005 Whole Life Expo, Houston, Texas

2004 Eastman Art Gallery, Houston, Texas

2005 League City Art Fair, League City, Texas

2005 Galveston Art Walk, Galveston, Texas

2004 White Linen Nights Art Walk, Heights, Texas

2004 Body, Mind And Soul Expo, Austin, Texas

2004 Body, Mind And Soul Expo, Dallas, Texas

2003 Body, Mind And Soul Expo, Houston, Texas

1968-1976 Various art shows in Pasadena, Galveston and Houston, Texas

 

Collections

 

2011 University of Houston Clear Lake, Pearland campus Founders’ Collection permanent exhibit.

 

Private collections in North America, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Scotland, U.K., Japan,

China, Portugal, Taiwan and Austrália.

 

Other Experience

 

Sales manager & trainer for Home Depot and Aflac Insurance Company

 

Education

 

South Houston High School

 - Placed second in and state-wide school art contest.

 - First student to be allowed to take two art courses during their senior year.

Famous Artist Correspondence School

San Jacinto Jr. College, Pasadena, Texas- Fine Art & Commercial Art

 

Understudied with numerous artists between 1968 to 1976

 

“UNIVERSALISM”

“Art that relies on a collaboration of energies in which the artist is like the conductor of a symphony and the colors and symbols are the instruments bent and blown, smashed and distorted, dissolved and reformed into a picture plane that becomes a slice of the universe.”

The work relies on outside energies, and the outside energies rely on the artists’ trust.

The artist creates a space in which the viewer is allowed to view pure energy.

Geometric abstraction of the picture plane is enhanced by hanging the pieces ninety degree off-normal. This, so-called, diamond shape further removes the viewer from limiting paradigms that would lead to labels. The push and pull of the work comes from the abstract quality that is uncomfortable to people who are programmed to receive visual information in a certain way. Unlike previous abstract aesthetic, the work is actually an ideal representation with all the detail and intricacies of the ‘real’ it is just codified in the truest language of pure unconscious mind.

Utopia is what you strive for, not a reality of life. De Stile painting was a substitute to experience harmony. In much the same way, Universalism gives the viewer a glimpse ‘behind the curtain of reality’ and in so doing can have a profound effect on the viewer.”   ~Ted Shaw