Lee Shiney (and Murphy the dog) with "Radiation 1" in progress

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I explore the use of machines in motion and computer-automation to make things, allowing the technology to imprint its DNA into the artwork, and use it to manipulate time as a function of the creative process. Sometimes the art is inextricably tied to the underlying mechanics (as in drawings done using a Roomba vacuum), but other times it's simply more fun to use a sawzall or a blowtorch. Many pieces are experiments within the lexicon of everyday life incorporating found objects and common materials such as pallet lumber and leftover commercial paints and inks, mixed and matched with more traditional artist materials. Happy to break the rules, if the urge strikes to try something outside of a "signature style", I do so without any regard for a logical progression or evolution of existing work in the oeuvre.

Works include 2-D and 3-D, and may include any of the following media and more: acrylic, latex, encaustic, serigraphy, computer-generated prints, kinetic sculpture, canvas, wood, robotics, digital and film-based photography, and plenty of found objects.

Obviously much of what I produce is informed by the commercial and industrial processes of my own history, including (but not limited to) graphic design, commercial silkscreen printing, avionics display fabrication, video production, farming, sign making, computer programming, and running an art gallery. Following the technological marvel of successful cancer treatment in January 2001, I took the new millennium as a fitting metaphor for a new life, and began seriously producing art with the new earnestness associated with being chased by time and death. With that, the fluidity of time compression and expansion became an integral part of my artwork as well.

Lee Shiney shows at Upfront Gallery, 412 E. Douglas Suite B, Wichita, KS 67202, 316.262.2435

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Museums
"InterACTIVE", a kinetic installation at the Wichita Art Museum (with Christopher Gulick and Tom McGuire), Spring 2008 through Spring 2009, Wichita KS

Awards
ArtAid12 Buddy Greenburg Patron Award, 2005, Wichita KS

Publications
Naked City Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, Dec. 2007
Wichita City Paper, February 2007
Art & Antiques Magazine, "Automatic Artwork", September 2005

Solo Exhibitions
Guilt 2 - Sep. 2007, Rock, Paper, Scissors, Wichita KS
Sofa Size - 2006, Commerce Gallery, Wichita KS
Guilt - 2005, Winds of Change Gallery, Wichita KS
Stop (Beating the Dead Horse) - 2005, Linesight Gallery, Wichita KS
Detritus - 2003, Firehouse Art Gallery, Wichita KS

Group Exhibitions
Chalk Art Festival - June 2008, Newton KS
Salon des Refusés - May 2008, Commerce Gallery and Redline Gallery at Lawrence Photo, Wichita KS
ArtAid14, Oct. 2007, Cotillion, Wichita KS.
2007 Arts Council Annual Juried Art Exhibit at CityArts - Oct. 2007, CityArts, Wichita KS
The Geographical Center of a Shrinking Planet: Local Artists in the Global Age - March 2007, Erman B. White Gallery, Butler County Community College, Eldorado KS
Mixed Media Mixed Message - March 2007, Gallery 414, Wichita KS
Free (with Chris Frank) - Feb. 2007, Tangent Lab, Wichita KS
Art Olio - Feb. 2007, Gallery PBH, Wichita KS
Leftovers Again - 2006, Tangent Lab, Wichita KS
ArtAid13, Oct. 2006, Cotillion, Wichita KS.
KC Ad Club Benefit Auction - 2006, Kansas City MO
Plane Crazy - 2006, CityArts, Wichita KS
Honey I Love You...But it is time for you to go - 2006, Lawrence Photo, Wichita KS
Semi-Automatic (with Jim Phillips) - 2005, Firehouse Art Gallery, Wichita KS
Some-Art Sem-Antics (collaboration with Kenneth Boe Petersen) - 2005, Newman University, Wichita KS
Modernism: Abstract, Non-Objective and Mid-Century Influence - 2005, Commerce Gallery, Wichita KS
ICT Invention and Contraption Convention - 2005, The Go Away Garage, Wichita KS
Move (with Christopher Gulick) - 2004, The Farm, Kansas City MO
War Against Visual Pollution - 2004, Firehouse Art Gallery, Wichita KS
Some-Art Sem-Antics (collaboration with Kenneth Boe Petersen and Kent Williams) - 2004, Newman University, Wichita KS
Art101 - 2004, CityArts, Wichita KS
Pushing All the Wrong Buttons - 2003, CityArts, Wichita KS