Stephen Shugart

Light Artist, Painter, Sculptor, Photographer, Fiction Writer, Playwright

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"Phase Shift" Detail.

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"Interior Monilogue" Honey locust twigs, string, granite, shellac, shrink wrap, LED flood lights, LED light bulbs, digital car rear view camera and monitor, electrical and mechanical hardware.

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"Aerie" Honey locust twigs, flood light bulb packaging box, string, shellac, individual surface mount LEDs, 12 volt power supply adapter.

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Phase Shift Exhibition at Edge Gallery, Denver, 10/6-22/2023

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"Revelation"

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“Refuge” Aspen logs, string, shellac, remote control RGB flood lights, shrink wrap, child’s coloring book page of owl, hardware. 36” x 32” x 34”.

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Passageway

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Film Still from "Attraction"

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Controlled Burn 

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“Mutualism” Aspen, fluorescent light bulbs, hook up wire, hose clamps.

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“A Little Poem”  Fluorescent light bulb, twigs, lamp holder, padauk, uranium glass beads, brass screws, under black light.

Symbiotic Exhibition opens October 22, 2021 - November 7, 2021

Symbiotic is an exhibition of light-based constructions and reliefs and other constructions/sculptures. This exhibition explores the theme of the symbiotic relationship between the stuff of our man-made (people-made) commercial world and natural elements. I have used weathered and decomposing wood, electrical wire, light bulbs, cardboard shipping boxes and other manufactured materials to examine this theme.  While making work for this exhibition, I have reflected on the symbiotic concepts of mutualism, a positive relationship between two organisms, parasitism, a destructive relationship, commensalism (neither positive or negative), and competition. Can or does humanity work toward a mutual and harmonious relationship with the natural world or are we inevitably competitive and parasitical?

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A Collaboration of Illumination “Modern Totems” through 2/28 with @wynnereynolds @faithwilliamsart #Gayla Lemke (fb) Zoom virtual tour and artist discussion 2/27 6:30-7:30 See Edge website for details http://www.edgeart.org #lightbasedart #sculpture #installationart #multimedia #foundobjectart #denverartist #40westarts (at EDGE Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLm__X7l4F-/?igshid=sgdkf996vc0p