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Shane Walsh makes paintings that borrow from historical abstraction & graphic imagery. Approaching painting as a form of collage, he playfully dissects then reconstructs visual languages to arrive at a form of abstract painting that is both autobiographical & historically aware. His omnivorous appetite for visual culture results in a wide array of references, quotations, techniques & materials that ultimately fuse into Frankenstein-like compositions, melded but never seamless. This cut & paste ethos is a direct result of his experience as a dj during the 1990s and his involvement with the subcultures of that era.