NATURAL RESPONSE Artwork by D. Shawn McPartland

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ART EXHIBITION: NATURAL RESPONSE
ARTIST: D. Shawn McPartland
DATES: 5 Nov 2024 – 31 Jan 2025
LOCATION: Annapolis City Hall, 160 Duke of Gloucester St., Annapolis MD
RECEPTION: 9 Dec 2024, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
D. Shawn McPartland is now showing abstract expressionist paintings and drawings at
Annapolis City Hall. Current work builds on chance interaction of color, textures, and
dynamic brush strokes to create vibrant, painterly art that emerge organically,
sometimes only after months or even years.
Previous exhibits include Foundry Gallery, Wash DC, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria VA,
and New York Studio School, NYC.  Work ranges from geometric, almost architectural
studies, to figurative, still life and abstract work – in a variety of mediums – and
which are influenced by Max Ernst, Al Held, Joan Miró, Arshile Gorky, Egon Schiele,
Willem De Kooning, Vasily Kandinsky, Lucien Freud and many others.
Born 1962, Seaford DE.  Resided in Germany, Iran, UAE, and throughout the US. He
spent his childhood in the European museums. Traveled the world, from St.
Petersburg to Morocco, Campo Grande to Singapore, Sri Lanka to Oslo, and points in
between. Currently living in Annapolis MD.
Licensed Professional Engineer, certified Harley-Davidson mechanic and artist.
Studied drawing and painting at the New York Studio School, NYC.
"Art must evoke an emotional response, good or bad, but a natural response.
Without a natural response, or a response to the nature of the work, its meaningless,
and requires further evolution until the organic nature of the painting becomes
evident.  At that point the painting comes to life, a life of meaning, different for
every viewer, but meaning – and purpose."
Also Visit: www.shawnmcp.portfoliobox.net