About Dee Shippelhute

Personal Statement

I like to approach my Art in a relaxed state (although this is not always the case) and with the feeling that my mind is free to search within myself. “Mind set” is key. For me, music and light stimulate the creative process. Once my body and mind are connected, the experience becomes breathtaking and can be quite intense, even exhausting. Extracting Art from within is primarily an emotional experience. I consider myself a contemporary abstract artist. My Art is a language of emotions and of meditation without words.

I find myself almost transforming from modern human form to a completely different being by way of emotional force, maybe a more primitive pre-language being, maybe a more spiritual being. Personally I haven’t figured out why, I just know I am doing what I should be doing.

The creative process is hard work and though it is exhilarating it can be very frustrating at times, but I wouldn’t change it for the world.

I like to create texture, depth and warmth. I usually step out of and back into my paintings several times to assure a certain connective response. Most of my paintings have depth due to the underlay. It seems I often begin with a first layer of paint as one creation and then I either completely or partially change the painting when applying the second and third layers of medium. Each painting evolves.

I hope you find pleasure and enjoyment through my eyes of “Art.” I want my Art to in some way relieve suffering.

Bio

Dee Shippelhute was born in Brooklyn, New York. She studied Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and took instruction from several artists whose works she admired.

Because of her passion for Art and the work of Master Artists she studied them intensively. Her major influences have been Jackson Pollock, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Hans Hofmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Vincent Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo.

Dee’s medium of choice is dictated through a zest for originality along with exposure to the art of different cultures. Her love of texture and depth and expression of space is channeled into a balance of color that is essentially an exploration and a meditation.

Her plan is to travel and live in different countries so that she and her art can be influenced further and evolve positively.

Exhibitions

Group Shows

Onset Gallery, Onset, MA
Provincetown Art Museum/2004,05,06,07,08
Cape Cod Conservatory
Cape Cod Conservatory Guild (Juried Panel)
Chatham’s Eldredge Library
Lower Cape Art Association (Juried)
Lower Cape Cod/ Directors Retirement Party
Provincetown Annual Art Guide
Synergy of Art/Chatham, MA
Cotuit Art Center (Juried)/Cotuit, MA
Hyfield Arts on the Hill, Falmouth, MA
Gallery 337, Main Street, Hyannis, MA
Cultural Center of Cape Cod (Juried)
2007/2008 Tao Water Gallery/Provincetown, MA
Tianjin Fine Art Academy/Tianjin, China

Solo Shows

Cape Cod Conservatory
Stressless Concepts/W. Broadway, NY (Soho)
Lobster Pot, Commericial St., Provincetown, MA

Education

1997 Holyoke Community College - Art
1999 Westfield State - Business
2002 Douglas Turner (Private Instructor)
2003 Museum of Fine Arts School, Boston, MA
2005/06/07 Cape Cod Community College - Visual Art
along with Provincetown Museum Art School
2006/07/08 * Norman Laliberte, Ph.d (Private Instructor)
* Norman Laliberte, Ph.d from McGill University, Montreal, Canada; also has his Masters degree in Art & Education, Notre Dame, Indiana
2008 Tianjin Fine Arts Academy, China, thru CCCC
2008 UMass-Dartmouth Undergraduate - Visual Arts
I also attended several art related workshops, such as, Smart Market for Artists; Business Builders with an emphasis on Artists. Knowledge in PC’s and Apple. Computer training in Adobe Photo Shop, Mac OS X, Excel, Microsoft Publisher, etc.