SHANE GUFFOGG: XINGU

In this episode, we speak to Los Angeles-based international artist Shane Guffogg about his upcoming exhibition, Xingu, medium to large-scale works on paper and found objects installation. Opening Saturday, February 18th, 2023, at El NIDO by VC Projects, 1028 N. Western Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90029. The artist reception on the 18th also features a curated music program by pianist Anthony Cardella. Guffogg’s black and white, India ink, and white soft pastel works on paper, are not the only works on display. There are large tree fragments from Guffogg’s ranch in Central California, where he painted the series. We discuss elements of this unique exhibition. Guffogg shares the instigation of Xingu series. He began working from the studio floor, splashing the India ink and the chaos that ensues. The artist is not alien to creating structures to jump off. He states the black ink in the composition is the subject and the object. 

Our conversation also exposes Tony’s curated music program and possible parallels to Guffogg’s Xingu. The compositions by Janacek, Ravel, Scriabin, and Prokofiev, the Prokofiev Toccata; Tony will perform from a grand piano within the installation space! Guffogg also shares his sympatico with Tony, interpreting one another’s visual art to music. Reflecting on the Impressionist composers Tony has curated, I ask, Guffogg is this relative to Xingu, and what does impressionism means to him? Listen in as these fascinating stories unravel, hearing first-hand from Guffogg, the creative thinker, sharing developments in art and music collaborations. 

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.

To learn more about Shane Guffogg, visit, www.shaneguffogg.com