Shane Guffogg: The Alchemist

In terms of the artist's practice, alchemy is turning organic matter into paint. It’s the transformation from one element to another. The artist is one who takes materials and turns them into a portal to another realm. All this comes about in a silent and universal language for the viewer to feel, and reflect. In this talk, Shane Guffogg, and I explore his process and much more.

Shane Guffogg is an American artist who looks through the lens of humanity at civilizations, both past, and present, and views time as threads that connect all people. His work is a visual language that is informed by the spiritualism of abstraction and the realism of the old masters. These two ideas are usually seen as separate but Guffogg fuses them seamlessly into works that transcend and become testaments to thoughts that inform us of who we are in the 21st century. https://www.shaneguffogg.com