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SHANE MORROW

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About Me

Home Town: Aledo, Illinois(population 3900,Dragon Country). College Attended: Minneapolis Institute of Art. Degree: BFA in Media Arts(Photography,Film, Video, Sound). Lived in the N.W.Chicagoland area(Mt Prospect,IL)for the past eight years(1998-2006). Worked in a photo lab in Lincoln Park(Clark & Fullerton).Moved to Tacoma in November of 2006, just in time to experience record rainfall(I loved it.) Hoping to become active in the Emerging Tacoma Art Scene. I plan to move back to Chicago eventually if not sooner.

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My Interests

Kuang Cao(Chinese Wild Cursive Calligraphy), Graphology, Graffitti, Automatism, Art Brut, Surrealism, Art Informel, Japanese Maples, Art History, Mysticism, String Theory, Energy Transferrence, Silent Contemplation,

I'd like to meet:

Artists, Art Patrons, Gallery Owners. I would like to meet contacts that could help me make arrangements for Art Exhibitions in China or Japan. 2005 Bourgeois Pig! Flyer "2000 Mystic Path" Acrylic on Wallpaper.

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Music:

James Brown, Sly & the Family Stone, Prince, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Grace Jones, Laurie Anderson, Parliment/Funkadelic, Rare Earth, Kiss, Van Halen, Radiohead, AC/DC, Afrobeat, The Stranglers, Neko Case, Brian Eno, Talk Talk, N.E.R.D., Outkast, Captain Beefheart, Adult, Kraftwerk, Beck, Steve Roach, Dead Can Dance, Velvet Underground, Classic Country, Phillip Glass, Nick Drake, Sex Pistols, Bow Wow Wow,

Movies:

Rocky, Scarface, Pope of Grenich Village, Bad Boys(Sean Penn), After Hours, Taxi Driver, Color Purple, Little Big Man, The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. Terwilliker, Barfly, Dances With Wolves, Moonstruck, Purple Rain, State of Grace, Paper Moon, Fists of Fury, Midnight Cowboy, Strawdogs, Tootsie, Rushmore, King Kong(Bridges/Lang), Big Labowski, Bagdad Cafe, American Werewolf in London, Soulfood, The Departed, Adaptation, Eraserhead, Made,

Television:

NYPD Blue, Frontline, Sopranos, The Wire, Girlfriends, The Office, CNN, Jamie Foxx, King of Queens, DaVinci Inquest, David Letterman, Craig Ferguson, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Arrested Development, Meet the Press, Chicago Bears, Chcago Cubs, Check Please!

Books:

Masters of Japanese Calligraphy, The Embodied Image, Sacred Calligraphy of the East, Concise History of Modern Art, The Short Stories of Franz Kafka, The Divine Pymandar, Tibetan Book Of The Dead, Varieties of Religious Experience(W. James), BASQUIAT:A Quick Killing in Art, A History of the Surrealist Movement, The Poetics of Appropriation:The Literary Theory and Practice of Huang Tingjian(1045-1105), War All The Time(Bukowski), Love Is A Dog From Hell(Bukowski), The Metamorphosis(Kafka), The Hunger Artist(Kafka), The Prophet.

Heroes:

Huaisu(725-785) Huang Tingjian(1045-1105) Hon'ami Koetsu(1558-1637) Wang Duo(1592-1652) Fu Shan(1605-1690) Isaac Newton(1643-1727) Paracelsus(1493-1541) Jacob Bohme(1575-1624) Mark Tobey(1890-1976)"Microcosmos"Asger Jorn(1914-1973)

My Blog

The Alchemy Of Line: An Introduction To Intuitive Calligraphy

The Alchemy Of Line: An Introduction to Intuitive CalligraphyFor Some, calligraphy is nothing more than the art of making beautiful letters. For artist and mystic Shane Reid Morrow his "Intuitive...
Posted by SHANE MORROW on Thu, 24 May 2007 11:35:00 PST

Exhibition History

Solo Exhibitions1993 Recent Paintings, Muddy Waters Café, Minneapolis, MN1994 Studies in Graphology, Caffetto , Minneapolis, MN1995 Birth of Intuitive Calligraphy, Café Voltaire, Chicago, IL1996 Recen...
Posted by SHANE MORROW on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:14:00 PST

Introduction to Photomancy

Photomancy is a contemplative process designed to express the creative thought process of the I.N.T.P(Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceptive) personality.  The term Photomancy is a creative offs...
Posted by SHANE MORROW on Tue, 08 May 2007 10:25:00 PST

The Hunger Artist

"1994 The Hunger Artist" (Illustration for the short story by Franz Kafka).31"X37" Oil and Gesso on Salvaged Screen Print Press....
Posted by SHANE MORROW on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:10:00 PST

The True Joy of Painting

The True joys of painting Are the things you see And  the thoughts you get While the paint is wet. ...
Posted by SHANE MORROW on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:01:00 PST

Contemplation on Intuitive Calligraphy

At once awkward and sublime,Twitsted and Entrancing,Morphic and Mezmorizing,Sending a chill up and down the spine."2001 The Living Squiggles" Acrylic on mounted wallpaper....
Posted by SHANE MORROW on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:13:00 PST

Half Moon Rising

In the Half Moon, I see it all. The hatred I feel, The love I can't deny....
Posted by SHANE MORROW on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:57:00 PST

Never and Always

I search and I search, I look and I read, And all that I search for, Is proof of things that I already know to be True. When will I see myself As a valid reference?   The answer to this riddle, I...
Posted by SHANE MORROW on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:53:00 PST

Contemplation On The Spectrum Of A Diamond

To know the Mind Without Reason Without Word Without Form, Is to be free Of all sorrow and desire for Wisdom.   Such is the transcending nature Of Inner Truth   Intuitive and radiant, Spon...
Posted by SHANE MORROW on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:50:00 PST

The Thatness Of All Things

The "Thatness" of all things Awake or in dreams, In Truth is Nothing at all. But from this Void Doeth Light manifest, And many a raindrop fall....
Posted by SHANE MORROW on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:25:00 PST