Artist Statement: My childhood at the base of the Rocky Mountains taught me how space and light move. A steady practice for four decades in New York City’s rich artistic culture has brought mastery to that vision. I create abstract contemporary paintings in water media on linen or paper inspired by the sight and feel of landscape. A life-long practice of meditation informs the work. In the studio I listen, allow and move as if in meditation. Through process and color I seek the infinite and unnameable in the tradition of Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, Caspar David Friedrich and Clyfford Still. BIO: Shawn Dulaney’s paintings are layered constructions of color, spacious abstractions charged with monumental energy. Dulaney spent her childhood on a vast plateau looking west to the Rocky Mountains and has traveled widely, immersing herself in landscape. Her work captures the experience and feeling of place. Doug McClemont of ArtNews writes that Dulaney’s paintings “concern the earth, and the unyielding hand of nature”.These are emotional geographies, reflected in her waves of color washes; overflowing, colliding, exhaling, intertwining. Movement in the making and in the images relates to her early background in dance and to the history of humans making marks in an archetypal way. In this sense these are bodily landscapes that reflect the collective unconscious and the universal experiences that are inherent to the human experience. These are also landscapes as self portraits, topobiographies involving memory and place like mnemonic maps. Her work has been described by William Zimmer of The New York Times as belonging to “a very strong tradition, that of 19 th -century Northern European Romanticism in which nature was seen as corresponding to human emotional states.” He says of her work, “Ms. Dulaney makes it clear that her inner life is very much a part of each painting, and this alone distinguishes it from most abstraction…Shawn Dulaney is deliberately out for grandeur, but she is also out for intimacy. Her paintings take advantage of their innate ambiguity and declare themselves to be very current in the thinking that lies behind them.”A light-handed mastery of her materials: water media on linen or paper, form microcosms that gives us an experience of nature’s power and depth. “Her surfaces”, as described by Dominick Lombardi-also of The New York Times, are “exquisitely painted and a pleasure to see.” Dulaney says, “I explore flows of liquid pigment and develop the ways in which these streams and lakes of chance-derived marks reflect meaning in the larger cosmos.”Dulaney has recently been a two-time recipient of the Pink House Artist Residency on the Beara Penninsula in Ireland. Her work will appear in 3 consecutive exhibitions this year at the new Savage Wonderground Gallery and Art Center in Beacon, NY. A working artist for over 4 decades, Dulaney is represented by Sears Peyton Gallery, Weber Fine Art, Carrie Haddad Gallery and Beth Urdang Gallery. Her work has appeared on the cover of Architectural Digest magazine (2022), has been reviewed in ArtNews and The New York Times, and has been featured in Parabola and New American Paintings. Exhibited widely, her paintings can be found in extensive public and private collections including those of the Hunterdon Museum of Art in NJ, the Venetia Resort in China, JCrew in NYC, as well as in the private collections of author Annie Proulx, actor Steve Buscemi, talk-show host Conan O’Brian and musician Stuart Copeland. Her work has appeared in episodes of TV’s Enlightened, Portlandia, Severance, and Sex & the City, and the films It’s Complicated (2009), Interview (2007) and John Wick 3 (2019). She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. EducationThe New School of Art, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaStanford University Studies Center in Britain, Maidenhead, England The Berkshire College of Art, Maidenhead, EnglandMills College, Oakland, California Studied UnderBarbara Morgan: 1980 - 1982Agnes Ivan, Burt Weir, Paul Young: 1977 - 1979Ralph DuCasse, Ralph Reed: 1975 - 1976Pawel Kontny: 1971 - 1975 ResidenciesThe Pink House Artist Residency, County Cork, Ireland, 2019 & 2023 Selected Solo Exhibitions2024- Carrie Haddad Gallery, Incoming Tide, Hudson, NY2021 Beth Urdang Gallery, Recent Paintings, October Wellesley, MA2020 Beth Urdang Gallery, Recent Paintings, September Wellesley, MA2017 Weber Fine Art, Blue Mind, Greenwich, CT2012 Sears Peyton Gallery, Sojourn, New York, NY2011 Weber Fine Art, To the Sea, Scarsdale, NY2010 Weber Fine Art, Two Bells: Meditations on Nature, Scarsdale, NY2009 Sears Peyton Galley, In the Drenched Earth, New York, NYWeber Fine Art, The Canal, Scarsdale, NY2007 Sears Peyton Gallery, Curtain of Water, New York, NYWeber Fine Art, Waterfalls, Scarsdale, NY2006 Weber Fine Art, Boundless, Greenwich, CT2005 Sears Peyton Gallery, Mirrors and Tides, New York, NY2004 Weber Fine Art, The Intimate Sky: Paintings of Light, Scardale, NYWeber Fine Art, New Paintings, Chatham, NY2003 Weber Fine Art, Holding Light, Scarsdale, NY2002 Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY2001 Weber Fine Art, New Paintings, Scarsdale, NYKaran Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, NMMuseum West, San Francisco, CAWeber Fine Art, Atmospheres of Light, Scarsdale, NY2000 Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Atmospheric Paintings, Santa Fe, NMSears-Peyton Gallery, Works on Paper, New York, NY1999 Margaret Bodell Gallery, Lifted : Atmospheric Paintings, New York, NYKaran Ruhlen Gallery, The Intimate Surface, Sante Fe, NMMuseum West Fine Art, New Work, San Francisco, CAMargaret Bodell Gallery, "One of a Kind Works on Paper", New York, NYRobischon Gallery, "Distant Views", Denver, CO1996 Robischon Gallery, "Vestige, Symbol, Verse", Denver, CO Selected Group Exhibitions2024 - Sears-Peyton Gallery, Rigorous Fun, New York, NY, 07/11/242024 - Weber Fine Art, Summer Selection, Greenwich, CT, 07/31/242024 - Brattleboro Museum of Art, In Nature's Grasp, Brattleboro, VT2024- Beth Urdang Gallery, Winter Selections Group Show, Wellesley, MA2023 - Sears-Peyton Gallery, Plein Air, New York, NY2022 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Bold Little Beauty, Hudson, NY2021 Beth Urdang Gallery, BLUE: Paintings Photographs Prints, June Wellesley, MA2021 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Place as Memory. Hudson, NYWeber Fine Art, Spring Exhibition Featuring Shawn Dulaney, Carin Riley,2020 Robert Polidori and Chen Jiagang. Greenwich, CT.Weber Fine Art, Winter Exhibition Featuring Renate Aller, Shawn Dulaney,Carin Riley, and Margaret Evangeline. Greenwich, CT2019 Weber Fine Art, Winter Exhibition Featuring Alex Katz, Carin Riley, ShawnDulaney, and Louise Fishman, Greenwich, CTBeth Urdang Gallery, Wellesley, MA2018 Beth Urdang Gallery, SUMMER SELECTIONS, Boston, MA2017 Beth Urdang Gallery, BLUE, Boston, MASears Peyton Gallery, At a Languorous Pace, New York, NYBeth Urdang Gallery, Summer Selections, Boston, MA2009 Weber Fine Art, with Hans Hoffman & Wolf Cahn, Scarsdale, NY2006 Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Inner Space, 4 artists referencing nature in2005 landscapes exploring emotional terrainWeber Fine Art, Inspiration and Influence, Shawn Dulaney/Hans Hoffman,Paintings, Scarsdale, NY2000 Mixed Media Gallery, Brooklyn On The Block, Block Island, RI1999 The Parrish Art Museum, 36th Juried Exhibition, South Hampton, NYHemphill Fine Arts, Our Good Earth: The Landscape at the End of the Century,Washington, DCMuseum West Fine Art, Two By Six, San Francisco, CA1997 Gallery at Hastings-On Hudson, NY "Fresh/Fresco:The New Age of Fresco",Curated by Gail Swithenbank1996 The Arvada Center for the Arts, "Eggs, Milk & Wax: Old techniques in NewPntgs", Arvada, COSmack Mellon Studio, "Pattern and Relief" Brooklyn, NY1995 Robischon Gallery, "Revisiting the Past", Denver CO1994 Boston College Museum of Art, "Fresco: A Contemporary Perspective", ChestnutHill, MACollectionsSteve Buscemi and Jo Andres, Brooklyn, NYJ. Crew, Rockefeller Center and Tribeca Stores, New York, NY Kenneth Cole, NY, NYAnnie Proulx, Centennial, WY Stuart Copeland, Los Angeles, CA David Colbert, New York, NYHunterdon Museum of Art, Cinton NJ Department of State, Washington, DC British Airways, New York, NYThe Reader's Digest Collection, New York, NY Publications– Reviews, New York By Doug McClemont ARTnews, April 2012 pg. 111– Works of Subtle Transcendence from a Master ArtistParabola Magazine, Spring 2012 pg. 40-43– H, C & G Hamptons Magazine, 2007– Karan Ruhlen Gallery By Craig Smith Pasatiempo/The Santa Fe New Mexican, May 2006– Versatile with a Cross-over Style By Dominick Lombardi The New York Times WE, April 2004– From Different Palettes, Texture, Color and Light By Dominick Lombardi The New York Times WE, April 2003– Paint Layered Over Poetry By William ZimmerThe New York Times WE, May 2001 cover of Arts & Entertainment pg. 10– New American Paintings #20, Open Studios Press, February 1999 Pgs. 3, 40-43