Dean Shaffer's Collection
Tea Pot and Apples		Willow Tree		Arrangement with Wine Bottle and Onions

Listing of Pieces from the Show:

• Arrangement of Onions with Basket and Blue Cloth (Oil) $2000
• Tea Pot and Apples (Oil) $2200
• Self Portrait  $1500
• Arrangement with Wine Bottle and Onions (Oil)  $2200
• Arrangement with Onions and Checkered Cloth (Oil)  $750
• Willow Tree (Oil)  $2400
• Red, Yellow and Green Apples (Watercolor) $800
• Striped Cloth (Pastel) $600
• Arrangement with Basket of Red Onions (Oil) $1250
• Untitled, Glendale Cemetery (Oil) $1500
• Three Onions (Oil)  $700
• Arrangement with Skull (Charcoal) $450
• Arrangement with Skull#2 (Charcoal) $450
• Arrangement with Cow’s Skull and Onions (Oil) $1200

EDUCATION

• Certified: Secondary Education in visual arts and math, U. of Akron 1984
• BFA: Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO 1976
• Graduate: Cooper School of Art, Cleveland, OH  1973

Selected Exhibitions

• Studio of 5 Rings, Cleveland, OH  May 2006
• Butler Institute of American Art - Youngstown, OH 2005
• Stan Hywet Art Auction - Akron, OH 2005
• McDonough Museum of Art - Youngstown, OH 2003
• Superior (an exhibition space) - Cleveland, OH 2002
• St. Louis Artists Guild 2001
• LaFond Galleries - Pittsburgh, PA 2000

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

"The work I've done represents an attempt to comprehend the truth of my experience of the visual world. Color defines that world and becomes a method of depicting space by exploring how individual colors relate to one another...

For me, the objective of any painting is to express unity. The colors in a painting must work harmoniously. Any color that does not 'fit' destroys the unity, creating an ambiguous space. Within that harmony must be diversity. To show the true differences between the colors gives the needed dimensional force. Thus the entire problem is how to harmonize and still maintain the range of color represented by the motif."