Shawn Hricz

Bio:

The artist Shawn Hricz resides on the island of Manhattan, where he visualizes and creates. His method of expression is achieved through collage, found objects, and traditional painting.

For more than 20 years Shawn worked in Hollywood as an award-winning artist in the motion picture and television industry and witnessed firsthand the celebrity obsession cast upon and then infiltrated throughout modern society. In certain instances, Shawn glamorizes the personalities on his canvas. But via the majority of his mixed-media creations, he cleverly brings into focus a satirical reflection on the culture of celebrity, as well as the blinding truths of the myth of fame. Whereas Warhol invented the art of putting the individual on a pedestal, Shawn playfully reveals one’s imperfections, with an illuminating stroke of the brush.

Shawn’s beautiful use of color and inventive layered collage and found objects draw the viewer into his world of three-dimensional storytelling. Whether on magazine covers or gallery walls, he has both admired and mocked his subjects. His unconventional works shock while at the same time leave his audience wanting more.