Wonderstruck with what is

Making art is a response to the mystery of being. It is a way to participate in creation. Through the process of making art I celebrate the weirdness, wideness, and wholeness of what is.

Most of my paintings are set in the night or at the edge of it, when the shadow of the earth unveils our terrestrial situation in the cosmos. The transition of light from day to night moves our bodies and minds to state shift. Between wakefulness and sleep strangeness is likely and beauty abounds.

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Shane Ogren was born in 1979 in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute where he lived for 18 years. He now lives back in Minnesota and practices painting, songwriting, woodworking, walking, gardening, and friendship.

Education

BFA 2002 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

Select group exhibitions

• 2014 — Other Realms, Wheeler Audio, Kansas City, MO
• 2014 — Group Show, Late Show Gallery, Kansas City, MO
• 2010 — Mantik Manifesto, Windhorse Gallery, Kansas City, MO
• 2010 — Immovable Axioms, 2631 Gallery, Kansas City, MO
• 2010 — Ripe Show re-opening, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
• 2010 — Ripe Show, Keyhole Gallery, Kansas City, MO
• 2008 — Group Show, PiP Gallery, Portland, OR
• 2004 — The Insect Show, Gypsee Gallery, Kansas City, MO
• 2004 — The Fairy Tale Project, The Fahrenheit Gallery, Kansas City, MO
• 2004 — The Chain Game, Cube at Beco Gallery, Kansas City, MO