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Recently featured on the cover artist for the July issue of The Laurel of Asheville,
Gabriel Shaffer is a young, up and coming, southern self-taught / visionary artist,
who lives and works in Asheville, NC. The son of nationally known folk/visionary
artist Cher Shaffer (most notable for her appearance in tour/book "O' Appalachia"),
Gabriel was raised within the self-taught medium and had contact with many folk
and self-taught masters as a young boy.
His complex work is often classified in the outsider-art genre, but contains many
elements of graffiti writing, collage and comic book/cartoon illustration.
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.
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.
He has exhibited and sold to many collectors, galleries and museums, in dozens of
shows, throughout various major cities nationally and internationally, including a
very strong debut with the Berenberg Gallery, Boston, MA, at the Outsider Art Fair
2005. He has appeared in several Magazines and Newspapers such as New York
Arts Magazine and Raw Vision.
You can expect to see great things from this rising artist as Gabriel continues to
redefine and recreate his own world and medium from the endless hunger of his
imagination, while adding to the rich tradition of the self taught art movement. Check
out his website at http://www.gabrielshaffer.com.
Gabriel Shaffer is a young, up and coming, southern self-taught / visionary artist,
who lives and works in Asheville, NC. The son of nationally known folk/visionary
artist Cher Shaffer (most notable for her appearance in tour/book "O' Appalachia"),
Gabriel was raised within the self-taught medium and had contact with many folk
and self-taught masters as a young boy.
His complex work is often classified in the outsider-art genre, but contains many
elements of graffiti writing, collage and comic book/cartoon illustration.
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.
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.
He has exhibited and sold to many collectors, galleries and museums, in dozens of
shows, throughout various major cities nationally and internationally, including a
very strong debut with the Berenberg Gallery, Boston, MA, at the Outsider Art Fair
2005. He has appeared in several Magazines and Newspapers such as New York
Arts Magazine and Raw Vision.
You can expect to see great things from this rising artist as Gabriel continues to
redefine and recreate his own world and medium from the endless hunger of his
imagination, while adding to the rich tradition of the self taught art movement. Check
out his website at http://www.gabrielshaffer.com.
Gabriel Shaffer
| Tiger-Tiger, mixed media |