2017 Shoosty Catalog Raisonne

The 2017 Shoosty Catalog Raisonne - The complete catalog of the art of Stephen Shooster for the year 2017.

SHOOSTY 2017 Catalogue Raisonné

HURRICAN IRMA PARTY 2017

I took a class in Encaustic Painting in Boulder, Colorado. Encaustic means painting with wax. It is not easy to paint with wax and even harder to get sharp lines and shapes. In preparation, I did some research and discovered a way to use my laser printer to make line drawings that could be transferred to the wax. I printed the drawings in reverse and then dropped the paper on the hot wet wax. The fibers of the paper merged with the wax. Once it solidified, I used water to rub the pulp off leaving just the part I printed. It was easy and worked out great.

2017 ARTIST STATEMENT On Sept. 10th, 2017, Hurricane Irma barrel through my region of South Florida. We were all hunkered down at the office where we have generators and hurricane protection. I needed to keep the company working, so not only was my family there but all of our employees and their families, too. We

had well over 300 people in two buildings. I was nervous with a lot of responsibility. Hurricanes are serious, but we turn them into parties. As the storm was on top of us we played some music and I made a drawing. I must have been watching TV or something cause the storm ended up in my drawing. Most of the art I did in 2017 was related to music.Those piec- es can easily speak for themselves. Notably, I invented a term to describe my live drawing style. I call it ‘Frenetic Drawing,’ the act of drawing rapidly while listening to loud music on a live stage. You will discover some great examples of this on the following pages. I love painting. Anytime I can paint I am happy. I was at a convention in Las Vegas when I was offered to go painting for an afternoon in the desert. The offer came from an old friend from elementary school who I was able to keep in touch with using Facebook. He had no clue that I was a painter. I hadn’t

I got involved with The Plein-Air Club of Palm Beach. Plein-Air means to paint outdoors. The Plein-Air Magazine is produced near my home in Boca Raton. Florida is perfect for outside adventures as long as you drink lots of water and dress for the sun and heat. I stumbled upon something I call, ‘Highway Mountains ’ and did a few modern landscapes. They are fascinating to me, visually showing speed. I did them using my Ipad Pro and Ipencil. Plein-Air traditionalists will not allow pieces like this to be called Plein-Air. I believe they are wrong and just don’t know how to use the tools. I also did a Plein-Air Painting of a home in a historic area of Boca Raton called, Old Floresta. The piece came out ok, but I wasn’t satisfied. I went home and painted directly over it alter- ing the concept into something I thought to be more pleasing. I turned the landscape into a circuit board. You are not allowed to do postwork on a Plein-Air Painting. Again I think they

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seen him in over 40 years. It was great to catch up. I met him at his house and he showed me some of the Americana paintings he completed and also some wood he was curing for frames. That wood inspired me. It had an unfinished live edge complete with bark. When I got to the location to start painting I made an oil painting to match that wood, called Bonnie Springs . I’m not sure how I got it home cause it was wet, but when it dried I framed it using live-edge wood.

are wrong. I equate it to Bob Dylan playing electric guitar at the Newport Jazz Festival it was both outrageous and genius. We should be encouraging people, especially young people, to be creative and use whatever tools they prefer as long as they put their heart and soul into the result. I guess the bigger challenges come when a person takes a simple photo with their mobile phone and uses an app to make a 2-second adjustment and then calls it a Plein Air painting.

Contents CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ SHOOSTY 2017 3 2017 Artist Statement MUSIC 5 French Horn 6 Black and Creme 7

PORTRAITS

40 40 41 42 43 44 45

Cassidy Shooster

Cassidy Shooster - Pondering Cassidy Shooster - The Singer

Carly - Deerfield Inlet

Carson

Diane’s Party Baruch Shuster

LANDSCAPES

Jorge Garcia and George Tandy - Tavolino’s

46 46 47 48 49 50 51 53 54

Boulder River

8 9

George Tandy Band

Boulder Colorado Landscape

George Tandy with Beard at Tavolino’s

Boulder’s Boulders

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 17 18 19 20 20 20 20 21 21 22 23 24 24 24 26 28 30 32 34

James Anderson Jorge Garcia The Yearning Katrina Rose Tandy Jazzy’s Hideaway Man Machine Poem Wooden Upright Kayla Frey

The Swamp

UF College of Art

Highway 1 Highway 2 Old Floresta Fairy Houses

ROBOTICS

Bass Player Mario Smith Hurricane Irma

Machines Building Humans

NW INDIAN INFLUENCE 57 NW Indian Sketch JAPANESE INSPIRED 58 Knight Detail 59 Samurai Detail 60 Samurai Detail 61 Samurai Detail CELTIC INSPIRED 64

Josh Goodman - with Guitar Calli Daniels - Drummer Cassidy Shooster - with Guitar

Katrina Rose - Singer Orin - Bass Player

Richard Tandy - Electro Magician

Dizzywind

Drummer Girl

Anastasia and Max Noir

14th Century Illustrated Manuscript

Black and Creme - Funky Buddah - Noir

65 65

Bagpiping Gargoyal Tangled Figures

Black and Creme - Noir The Ogden Theater in Denver

Caravan Palace 1 Caravan Palace 2 Caravan Palace 3

In The Light

PLEIN-AIR

37 38 39 39

Bonnie Springs Keith Nobel

Bonnie Springs Tourist Train The Engineer of Happiness

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Music

CATAGORIES MUSIC COLORED INKS IPAD PRO

French Horn

CATAGORIES MUSIC FRENETIC DRAWING INK

Black and Creme

CATAGORIES MUSIC INK

Jorge Garcia and George Tandy - Tavolino’s

CATAGORIES MUSIC COLORED INKS IPAD PRO

George Tandy Band

CATAGORIES MUSIC INKS IPAD PRO

George Tandy with Beard at Tavolino’s

CATAGORIES MUSIC DIGITAL PAINT IPAD PRO

James Anderson

CATAGORIES MUSIC INKS IPAD PRO

Jorge Garcia

I MET KEVIN GORE IN A SNUG (A SMALL BAR) IN EDINBURGH. HE IS A FOLK SINGER THAT IS FOCUSED ON POLITICS. I TOLD HIM I LOVE IRISH REVOLUTIONARY FOK MUSIC. HE STRAIGHTENED ME OUT SAYING, WHAT YOU ARE REFERRING TO IS CELTIC REVOLUTION- ARY FOLK MUSIC. THAT IS WHAT KEVIN PLAYS. I MET HIM DURING THE REFERENDUM FOR THE UK TO LEAVE THE EU. BEING FROM SCOTLAND HE IS AGAINST LEAVING THE EU. I DID A FEW DRAWINGS AND OFFERED TO HELP HIM TO MAKE THE ALBUM COVER FOR HIS LATEST ALBUM, THE YEARNING. I CENTERED MY ATTENTION ON THE STATE FLOWER, THE THIS- TLE, AND THE COLORS OF THE HIGHLANDS IN THE SUMMERTIME. THEN I SUPERIMPOSED HIS GUITAR ON THAT TO TURN THE PIECE INTO SOMETHING MUSICAL. IT’S LOOSE BUT HAS A SOLID COMPO- SITION.

CATAGORIES MUSIC DIGITAL PAINT IPAD PRO ALBUM COVER SCOTLAND

The Yearning

CATAGORIES MUSIC DIGITAL COLORED INK IPAD PRO

Kayla Frey

CATAGORIES MUSIC DIGITAL COL-

ORED INK IPAD PRO

Katrina Rose Tandy

CATAGORIES MUSIC DIGITAL COL-

ORED INK IPAD PRO

Jazzy’s Hideaway GARY FRIEDMAN ON TRUMPET CASSIDY SHOOSTER VOICE

SCULPTURE WITH LIGHTED WIRE. ART INSTALLATION, GLOBAL RESPONSE. TRIBUTE TO GORD DOWNIE OF THE BAND TRAGICALLY HIP

Man Machine Poem

CATAGORIES MUSIC DIGITAL INK IPAD PRO

Wooden Upright Bass Player

CATAGORIES MUSIC DIGITAL INK IPAD PRO FRENETIC DRAWING

Mario Smith

Hurricane Irma CATAGORIES MUSIC DIGITAL INK IPAD PRO FRENETIC DRAWING FLORIDA HURRICANE PARTY

Calli Daniels - Drummer

Cassidy Shooster - with Guitar

CATAGORIES MUSIC COLORED INKS IPAD PRO

Josh Goodman - with Guitar

Katrina Rose - Singer

Orin - Bass Player

Richard Tandy - Electro Magician

CATAGORIES MUSIC INKON PAPER

Dizzywind

INK AND WATERCOLOR ON PAPER 4” X 6” SHOOSTY

CATAGORIES MUSIC INK FRENETIC WATERCOLOR

Drummer Girl

CATAGORIES NOIR IPAD PRO MUSIC

Anastasia and Max Noir

CATAGORIES NOIR IPAD PRO MUSIC

Black and Creme - Funky Buddah - Noir

CATAGORIES NOIR IPAD PRO MUSIC

Black and Creme - Noir

Shooster holding drawing pad

PHOTO OF CARAVAN PALACE WED., JULY 12, 8 P.M. 2017, OGDEN THEATER IN CENTRAL DENVER. NOTE - SHOOSTER IS IN THE PHOTO ON THELEFT SIDE HOLDING UP HIS DRAWING PAD.

The Ogden Theater in Denver

FRENETIC DRAWING

USING THE FRANTIC PACED MUSIC OF AN ELECTRO GYPSY JAZZ BAND THE ART- IST DREW THE MUSCIANS AS FAST AS THE RYTHEM. THESE DRAWINGS COULD NOT HAVE BEEN CREATED IN A QUITE ROOM. IT WAS THE MUSIC PROCESSED THROUGH THE HAND OF AN ARTIST THAT CREATED THE DRAWINGS. CARAVAN PALACE PLAYED WED., JULY 12, 8 P.M. 2017, AT THE OGDEN THEATER IN CENTRAL DENVER. THE ENERGY OF THIS BAND IS OFF THE CHARTS. SHOOSTER BROUGHT HIS DRAWING PAD AND LET IT HIS HAND LOOSE AT THE SPEED OF THEIR SOUND. WHAT RESULTED WAS 3 INTENSE DRAWINGS. LATER HE SEPARATED THE SHAPES IN SEPARATE DRAWINGS. UPON ASKING HIM HE SAID YOU COULD NEV- ER MAKE DRAWINGS LIKE THIS IN A QUIET ROOM. IT REQUIRES THE SOUND AND THE ENERGY OF THE CROWD.

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CARAVAN PALACE IS RETURNING TO DENVER WITH ITS TWIST ON ELEC- TRO-SWING, A GENRE THAT HAS BEEN CATCHING FIRE IN BOTH U.S. AND EURO- PEAN NIGHTLIFE OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS. THIS FRENCH BAND WAS FORMED OUT OF A PASSION FOR ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND IS INFLUENCED BY MUSICIANS SUCH AS DAFT PUNK AND DJANGO REINHARDT. THE FOUNDING TRIO OF ARNAUD VIAL, CHARLES DELAPORTE AND HUGHES PAYEN HAD A LIKING FOR SWING, ES- PECIALLY GYPSY JAZZ, AND THEN DECIDED TO START PLAYING THE GENRE’S TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS: GUITAR, DOUBLE BASS AND VIOLIN. THESE MUSI- CIANS CONTINUE TO FIND WAYS TO DELVE DEEPER INTO THE GENRE, INCORPO- RATING ELEMENTS OF WHAT THEY DISCOVER INTO THEIR NEW SONGS. THEIR LATEST ALBUM, ROBOT FACE, WAS RELEASED IN 2015. - RILEY COWING

OGDEN THEATER DENVER, COLORADO JULY 12TH, 2017

Caravan Palace 1

Caravan Palace 2

Caravan Palace 3

A LED ZEPPLIN TRIBUTE BAND AUTUMN MARTINI ON BASS, ANTONIO ON DOUBLE NECK GUITAR, PAGE ON DRUMS, SCOTT VOICE

In The Light

Plein-Air

I GREW UP IN WOODCREST A SUBDIVISION OF CHERRY HILL, NEW JERSEY. KEITH NOBEL IS ONE OF MY FRIENDS FROM ELEMENTRY SCHOOL. WE LOST TOUCH. FACEBOOK RECONNECTED US. WHEN I WENT TO A TRADESHOW IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA HE REACHED OUT TO ME AND ASKED IF I WOULD LIKE TO GO PAINTING. I DON’T THINK HE KNEW THAT PAINTING AND DRAWING ARE MY FAVORITE THINGS TO DO. HE TOOK ME INTO THE DESERT TO A PLACE CALLED BONNIE SPRINGS. BEFORE WE LEFT HE SHOWED ME HIS OWN ART AND A FEW FRAMES HE WAS PLANNING ON USING. I WAS EXTRA INTERESTED IN THE LIVE WOOD FRAMES MADE FROM LOCAL WOOD. WHEN IT WAS TIME TO PAINT I GOT HE IDEA TO MAKE SOMETHING THAT WILL MAKE THOSE FRAMES STAND OUT.

Bonnie Springs MEQUITE LIVE EDGE FRAME PALETTE KNIFE PAINTING OIL PAINTING NEVADA

Keith Nobel

Bonnie Springs Tourist Train

The Engineer of Happiness

Portraits

Cassidy Shooster

CATAGORIES PORTRAIT INKS IPAD PRO ENCAUSTIC

Cassidy Shooster - Pondering

Cassidy Shooster - The Singer

ENCAUSTIC PAINTINGS

ENCAUSTIC IS WAX PAINTING TECHNIQUE. THE IMAGES HERE WERE PRINTED ON A LASAR PRINTER THEN APPLIED TO WAX. WHEN THE PAPER DRIED IT WASS INFUSED WITH WAX. THEN USING WATER THE PULP IS REMOVED LEAVING THE IMAGE EMBETTED IN THE WAX.

Carly - Deerfield Inlet

Carson

SKATER WITH ATTITUDE

SKATER WITH ANTENNAE

DIANE’S 2017 BIRTHDAY WAS HELD AT SUPER WHEELS, A SKATING CENTER IN MIAMI, FLORIDA.

CATAGORIES DIANE BIRTHDAY MIAMI FRENETIC DRAWING INK

Diane’s Party

LIZZY SKATING

DIGITAL INK HISTORY

FAMILY RUSSIA

Baruch Shuster

Landscapes

BOULDER RIVER PAINTING WITH PEABLO PAINTS.

CATAGORIES LANDSCAPE BOULDER NOIR

Boulder Colorado Landscape

Boulder River

CATAGORIES LANDSCAPE

DIGITAL COLORED INK BOULDER COLORADO IPAD PRO

Boulder’s Boulders

The Swamp

PHOTO WITH UF COLLEGE OF ART,DEAN ONYE OZUZU, UNDER A PAINTING OF THE ART COLLEGE AS SEEN FROM THE PLAZA. THE PAINTING IS HANGING AT THE RE- CEPTION COUNTER FOR THE DEAN OF THE ART AND ART HISTORY DEPARTMENT. IT COULD NOT HAVE FOUND A MORE PERFECT LOCA- TION. PAINTING BY SHOOSTY 2017. OIL ON CANVAS, WITH PAINTED FRAME AND GOLD LEAF.

OIL ON CANVAS

UF College of Art

Highway 1

Highway 2

2017 ORIGINAL VERSION

2018 VERSION

IN NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, DURING THE YEAR 1950 A MAJOR LEAGUE JAZZ FESTIVAL WAS ESTAB- LISHED. FROM ITS INCEPTION THE MUSICIANS AND AUDIENCE ESCHEWED ELECTRIC INSTRUMENTS. IN THE SUMMER OF 1965, WITHOUT ANY ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE BOB DYLAN AND BAND SET UP HEAVY EQUIPMENT AND STARTED TO PLAY “MAGGIES FARM,” THEN WENT ON TO PLAY THE NOW ICON- IC SONG, “LIKE A ROLLING STONE.” THE AUDIENCE WAS APPALED AND BOOED INCESSANTLY. TODAY, THESE ARE CONSIDERED WORLD CHANGING. I USE THIS STORY TO HELP EXPLAIN WHAT IS HAP- PENING HERE WITH MY PLEIN-AIR PAINTING, OLD FLORESTA. THE FIRST THING TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT PLEIN-AIR MEANS PAINTING WHAT YOU SEE OUTSIDE. PLEIN-AIR PAINTING AT THE COMPETITION LEVEL HAS STRINGENT RULES LIKE THE NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL. HERE IS ONE OF THE RULES I FOUND FROM A PLEIN-AIR COMPETITION: YOU MUST COM- PLETE YOUR WORK 100% OUTSIDE FROM WHAT YOU SEE DURING THE WEEK, WITHIN THE ALLOWABLE BOUNDARIES. NO PAINTINGS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND NO ENTRIES PRODUCED USING MANIPULAT- ED PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, COMPUTER-EN- HANCED IMAGERY, OR OTHER NON-PLEIN-AIR MEANS WILL BE ALLOWED.

JUST LIKE BOB DYLAN, I REJECT THIS RULE AS FOOLISHNESS. LET THE ARTIST DECIDE HOW FAR TO TAKE THEIR WORK, AS LONG AS THE WORK STARTS OUTSIDE OR INCORPORATES OUTDOOR PAINTING THEN IT SHOULD BE ALL IN GOOD SPIR- ITS OF DOING THE BEST YOU CAN DO. WE SHOULD ENCOURGE THE USE OF THE NEWEST TECHNIQUES AND METHODS. IN MY CASE, I MADE A SMALL PAINTING 12”X12” WITH A BESPOKEN FRAME AND THEN WENT HOME AND REFINED IT INTO THE FEELING OF A CIRCUIT BOARD. THE PLEIN-AIR PIECE LEFT ME FEELING LIKE IT IS RAW AND UNFINISHED, THE NEW VERSION HAS ALL THE MARKS OF MY STYLE. A YEAR LATER I WENT FURTHER WITH THIS CONCEPT AND USED VECTORS TO MAKE THE IDEALIZED VERSION. VECTORS CRE- ATE PERFECT GRADIENTS AND LINES WITH EASE. ASK YOURSELF THIS, IF THERE WERE NO RULES WHICH PAINTING IS THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF CRE- ATIVITY AND IMAGINATION? WHICH ONE DO YOU LIKE THE BEST?

ESTABLISHED 1926

BOB DYLAN 1965 NEWPORT JAZZ FES- TIVAL VIDEO

2017 MODIFIED VERSION

PLEIN AIR OIL PAINTING CONTROVERSIAL 12” X 12” WITH BESPOKEN FRAME

Old Floresta

Fairy Houses

Robotics

ROBOTICS DIGITAL COLORED INK IPAD PRO

Machines Building Humans

NW Indian Influence

NW INDIAN DIGITAL INKS IPAD PRO

NW Indian Sketch

Japanese Inspired

Knight Detail CATAGORIES KNIGHTI WARRIOR DIGITAL COLORED INK IPAD PRO

CATAGORIES SAMURAI WARRIOR DIGITAL COLORED INK IPAD PRO

Samurai Detail

CATAGORIES SAMURAI WARRIOR DIGITAL COLORED INK IPAD PRO

Samurai Detail

CATAGORIES SAMURAI WARRIOR DIGITAL COLORED INK IPAD PRO

Samurai Detail

Celtic Inspired

A14TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT DIGITAL COLORED INKS IPAD PRO

14th Century Illustrated Manuscript

CATAGORIES MUSIC DIGITAL INK IPAD PRO SCOTLAND

Bagpiping Gargoyal

CATAGORIES CELTIC MUSIC DIGITAL INK IPAD PRO SCOTLAND

Tangled Figures

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