The Art of Robert Shetterly

Robert Shetterly is a Maine-based artist who has shown extensively in many New England galleries including the Leighton Gallery, Frick Gallery, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Hobe Sound Galleries, and Berkeley Center at Yale University. He has been included for five consecutive years in the Maine Coast Artist's Annual Juried Show. Shetterly has illustrated several books including Speaking Fire at Stones by William Carpenter and The Changing Desert by Ada and Frank Graham. He chairs the Union of Maine Visual Artists and is currently initiating collaboration with other Maine artists on a premiere Cuban artist exchange program.

Mr. Shetterly is showcasing a selection of drypoints from his Annunciation Series.
He says of his work, "I make pictures to keep myself from being overwhelmed by the world. I consider my work to be a contemplation of what it means to be alive - a celebration of the imagination, the ambiguities of human behavior, emotional complexity, spiritual longing, and necessary humor. My paintings often imply narrative, but I hope that the narrative is, in turn, overwhelmed by mystery. My pictures don’t often know what it is they are trying to express when they begin. The necessity of making them is driven by the necessity of the search. The process is similar to a kid turning over rocks to be surprised, alarmed, amazed by what’s there. IIn the search for the spiritual anything seems fair game, turning traditional narrative upside down, mixing the sacred with the profane, denying the existence of God while one goes on looking. Anything is fair game as long as the search is honest, not merely an exercise in shock or titillation".

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