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Left by Dave on May 18, 2006:

Your work is wonderful, truly engaging for the eye. I really enjoy "Tris Papasan". Dave E.

Biography

BIO:

Bernard P. Shaw

Pittsburgh native born in 1948 on Pittsburgh’s North Side.  He acquired his love of art watching his mother paint.    Influences include Salvador Dali, M.C. Escher, Picasso, Thomas Eakins and Rodin.  Also influential was his experience of the Tet Offensive of ‘68 in a bunker in .

 In ’73, Bernie took a sculpting course at Pitt and was thrilled when all of his projects were shown in the student display case at the Frick Art Center. His dream of becoming an artist was launched.   Bernie married and reenlisted, spending  the next twenty years in the Navy.

After the Navy he attended Geneva College (’93-’98). Raising six children never left much time or energy for pursuing art. At Geneva he met Lynda Lambert, an internationally known artist, who inspired him to get on with his pursuit.  Bernie attempted to cram twenty years of creative energy into a semester.

He produced a 4x4x8 foot installation in the form a closet full of the memories of the day he left for . His closet incorporated his poetry. Also notable was his life sized statue entitled “Natural Man Praying before the Altar of the Machine Age,” a weaving of metal, wood and twine.

His works were the center of interest at Geneva’s annual student art show.      The Hoyt Gallery selected three of his works for its 25^th anniversary art show in 1998.  Bernie returned to Geneva as “Special Guest Artist” for it’s 1999 Art Show.