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
  • 2009 Tianjin Fine Art Academy/China
  • 2010 Sichuan University/Artist in Residency Program/Chengdu, China
  • 2010/2011 Cabezas Gallery, NY., NY
  • 2011 Crisolart Galleries, Barcelona, Spain

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
  • 2009/10/11 Cape Cod Community College
  • 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.

Teaching Experience

  • Currently working at the Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA – Students with significant disabilities.
  • The Cove Club, Harwichport, MA - Under the auspice of the May Institute in Fall River, Ma. The Cove Club is a non-clinical recovery program for people recovering from mental illnesses. The members participate within the community and in the operations of the club to facilitate real life work and develop social skills on an individual basis.
  • Transitions Center, South Yarmouth, MA – Transitions is a Day Program working with individuals with disabilities in residential, day habilitation and employment services.
  • Barnstable Senior Center, Barnstable, MA
  • In addition, instructed art classes for a number of residential programs with disabilities within the Cape Cod Community.

 

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