Stan Shellabarger
Untitled
2010
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Stan Shellabarger
Untitled
2010
Physical Qualities
Accordion-bound volume of six-color reduction woodblock print, Book: 381 x 559 mm. (15 x 22 in.)
Sheet (unfolded): 381 x 5588 mm. (15 x 220 in.)
Credit Line
Print, Drawing & Photograph Society Fund, with proceeds derived from the 2012 Contemporary Print Fair
Object Number
2012.190
SHUFFLE. Stan Shellabarger is a performance artist who achieves a rare accomplishment: he created a work that is the result of the performance rather than a documentation of it (usually photodocumentation is all that remains after a performance). This work is the result of a combined twenty-four hours of shuffling on wood blocks wearing sandpaper-soled shoes. Prior to walking he printed each board in red. After about four hours of walking he printed the next color, dark blue. With the subsequent four colors (dark green, medium blue, light green, and light blue) he did the same action, four hours of walking followed by a printing session. The colors are symbolic of humanity beginning with blood red and ending with grass green and sky blue. Shellabarger lives and works in Chicago.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2012; Western Exhibitions, Chicago
Ann Shafer, "On Paper: Spin, Crinkle, Pluck," April 19 - September 20, 2015.