Gabriel Shaffer

MARCIA WEBER / ART OBJECTS
1050 Woodley Road
Montgomery, Alabama 36106
(334) 262-5349
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Gabriel Shaffer

Born in 1976, into a creative family, Gabriel found his own voice as a painter in 2004. Since then, he has created compulsively with a unique visual vocabulary of fantasy mixed with his real life subjects. He is a self-taught artist, who lives and works in North Carolina. His complex work is often classified in the outsider art genre, but contains many elements of graffiti writing, collage and comic book/cartoon illustration.

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"In Daily Nude Costumes" mixed media and collage on canvas 24" x 36" $4000 (9630)

Gabriel's unique art is driven by a manic obsession with the relationships between sound, symbol and image, as they are literally layer upon layer of graffiti, free association, collage and various medias, salvaged from assorted locations (abandoned hospitals, factories houses, dumpsters, etc.) which create a circuit board of color, texture and information, used to form haunting characters and communicate strange narratives from his own personal mythology.

Detail from "In Daily Nude Costumes" (9630)

Gabriel's characters consist of old legends, angels, protectors, tribal totems, dolls, puppets, flying houses, iconography, shapeshifters, ghosts, aliens, animals and any other bizarre form of creature or landscape his mind can conjure.

Detail from "In Daily Nude Costumes" (9630)

Gabriel is a solitary artist, who lives between planes, using the power of storytelling, to explore his inner worlds and simultaneously exorcise himself from the "madness of humanity". He has no other option than to "create to cope", as it is his belief mankind is living in an "apocalyptic age".

Detail from "In Daily Nude Costumes" (9630)

His work has appeared in several Magazines and Newspapers such as New York Arts Magazine and Raw Vision. It is in collections throughout the United States.