"Ward Shelley works as an artist in Brooklyn, New York. He specializes in large projects that freely mix sculpture and performance. Utilizing eclectic influences and a variety of media, Shelley’s installations defy classification. Over the last five years, Shelley has concentrated on bizarre functioning architectural pieces in which he lives and works during the exhibition monitored with live surveillance video equipment.
Shelley also works on a series of diagramatic paintings, timelines of art-related subjects such as the careers of artists working in de-materialized media and the history of art scenes. "
Ward does a huge range of different projects, he has won the New Yorker and New York Times awards and has been referenced in numerous Art and culture Books. AS evident from these awards, he is based primarily in New York, some of his pieces concentrate on Solely on the Avant Garde in New York, one such would be Downtown Body.
Interestingly Shelley also does Info Vis, and he did a series of Oil Paintings, purely coincidentally one of them called "Who Invented the Avant Garde"
exhibition at Pierogi, April 2009.
This is an interesting piece, in ways it almost looks like a Mind map or a brain storm but it is actually a portrayal of accurate Data in a visualised Timeline.
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I find his pieces interesting because they are so Old School they are bordering on Steam Punk, and they show there is a true heritage of Information Visualisation and Design Visualisation through portraying this data in an old fashion.
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