William Shattuck
Born 1950, New York, NY, lives and works in Dartmouth, MA
Epiphany Waits for Thee, 1999, charcoal on paper, Museum Purchase, The Frederick P. Walkey Fund, a gift of the Stephen and Sybil Stone Foundation, 2002.33
William Shattuck experiments with a variety of media that best addresses the subjects of individual artworks, from his carefully rendered charcoal drawings or lithographs, to his oil paintings in which he responds to the light, color, and form of his immediate environment.
Epiphany Waits for Thee is based on a chair from a historical house in New Bedford, MA. Shattuck was asked to create an artwork dealing with the setting of the house and chose the chair because of the way it evokes human presence through absence. Shattuck says that his “…charcoal drawings have always been born of personal experiences, an attraction to finding poetry in the everyday, or reflections on events and ideas that shape our lives.” Three years in the making, this enormous drawing is both a tour-de-force technically and a poignant metaphor of loss and loneliness.
