Shuster's work (a small selection) 
PAINTINGS, MIXED MEDIA, DRAWINGS

Keep in mind, what you see here are mere digital images, pale representations of the real.  Please write or call if you'd like to see more images or arrange for a private viewing. A price list is available upon request.  Sales, of course, are always welcome as they support further individual and collaborative work.

oil PAINTINGS

riff    
























oaxaca bloom    


















1+1=2    




















jester's retreat    



















There is a point of departure. And a pattern perceived, a movement explored, a pattern and movement made. From within, a life born and found. Between. Between visible and invisible, known and unknown, one and two. There lies a tension, a complementary ease, a dynamic equilibrium. There lies dream, reality, dream-reality. Between. There lies my drawing and painting.



MIXED MEDIA on paper

house divided    














there emerges, pacific orange    















soul's shores    















charcoal DRAWINGS on paper

hudson dervish    























in and out conch whispering in my ear    























tower of babel    






















the charcoal drawings above
emerge from explorations with modern dancers


Drawing with charcoal on paper, I work directly from and with dancers and dance improvisation and explorations. My own movements, and the lines and shapes as they emerge, too are a kind of dance. It is the figure in space, the space in-between and the accumulation of line, the accumulation and collaboration of present moments in charcoal that engages and intrigues me. I seek to delve more deeply into the seeing and improvisational potential of any given moment and the movements of all kinds in the immediate environment. With luck, I touch or re-inhabit special, deeply intuitive moments of my childhood. It’s the collaborative, actively interactive part of it, the simultaneous improvisatory nature of our work – two mediums/languages improvising in concert with one another – that excites and propels me. From this interaction comes the traces that then evolve into these drawings, that continue to dance… (W.S.)


"There is something at once ancient and timeless about them. The primitive simplicity of the materials recall the cave paintings of Lascaux; the fluidity of movement, Japanese ink drawings; and their complexities, the intricacies of Arabic designs or some futuristic architectural masterpiece........ they also remind me of the mindboggling patterns obtained in particles accelerators....
It's as if she was speaking in a language I understood perfectly and yet that I didn't even know I possessed...."
- Jean Marc Larivière, filmmaker, Ontario


head 2

head 3

head 4




















Heads, OIL Painting

head of anna

head of anna 3

head of ruth

"the world is a whole greater than the sum of its parts because the parts are not merely summed - thrown together - but related, the whole is a pattern which remains, while the parts come and go, just as the human body is a dynamic pattern which persists despite the rapid birth and death of all of its individual cells. The pattern does not, of course, exist disembodiedly apart from individual forms, but exists precisely through their coming and going - just as it is through the structured motion and vibration of its electrons that a rock has solidity."  from Nature, Man, Woman, by AlanWatts


all images, copyright: Wendy Shuster