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Artists
Yvette Shadrock
Bio
Yvette Shadrock was born in 1975 and grew up on a small farm just outside of San Antonio, TX. Since childhood she demonstrated a special aptitude for both the arts and the sciences and her early paintings reflected this dual interest. Growing up close to nature would instill in her a passion for the outdoors and the wonders of the natural world that would be her lifelong muse. Before even graduating high school, Shadrock had already received national recognition for her artistic endeavors, winning both the top level award for visual arts in the Arts Recognition and Talent Search, a program directed by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and the prestigious Presidential Scholar Award. She went on to earn her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Magna cum laude) from the University of Texas at San Antonio, with a concentration in painting and a minor in art history. While there, she also won the Texas Emerging Artist Scholarship for painting.
For the last several years Shadrock has made a living as a professional artist, both as a painter as well as working in the art restoration and conservation fields. She has exhibited locally at numerous art spaces such as the Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center, Contemporary Art SA, Silo, and Bismarck Studios. Outside of San Antonio, she has shown work in Austin and Boerne and as far away as Alaska, New York City, and Washington, D.C. Her paintings are included in corporate collections such as FBD Enterprises of San Antonio and Taylor Companies, Inc. of Washington, D.C., as well as many private collections throughout Texas and the United States as well as England. Shadrock draws her inspiration from the beauty of the natural world. It is complexity that especially interests her--the myriad patterns and seemingly random interactions between complex systems. Using oil as her primary medium, she uses painting to explore the balance and play between disparate subjects--chaos and order, micro- and macrocosm, representation and abstraction. Nature, for her, is a boundless place of spiritual reverence and inspiration, a wellspring that never runs dry.
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