Stephen Shugart

"Phase Shift" Detail.

"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.

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

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

"Revelation"

“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”.

Controlled Burn 

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

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?

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