Shawn has lived and worked in Durango since 2011.  As a printmaker and Sculptor, He is interested in all types of media and scale.  Having received his BA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005, Shawn has continued to work in the arts or constructive fields, presently building custom garage doors for Adams Overhead door.  

With a love of materials and a since of humor, Shawn creates Installations and sculptures that transform spaces, invite interaction, and reword close inspection.  The mysterious difference between intended design and what objects accomplish once given form is Shawn’s driving force, complete disappointment and never ending delight.  Wood and Steel are his favorite mediums but Shawn believes materials speak (mostly telling jokes) with specificity and bringing an idea into form may require any number of different mediums.  Skilled with tools since childhood, Shawn’s earliest works include perforating his bedroom walls with a paddle bit and hammering the sidewalk to pieces because it cracked like a spider web if hit hard enough.   

In experimental printmaking classes at VCU, Shawn was captured by the subtle depth embossed in prints after rolling inked materials and overlaid paper through an etching press.  A natural complement to his sculpture, printmaking can combine any number of techniques and materials.  Today, Shawn is still experimenting with an etching press, rolling, pushing, layering and subtracting from a colorful palette of inks to create monotypes depicting the world he sees, the worlds he would like to see and the people that may inhabit such places.