Bio
Shane McClatchey is a painter based in Laguna Beach, California. He received an MFA in Painting at the Laguna College of Art and Design. Shane’s work is represented by Kennedy Contemporary in Newport Beach, California.
Statement
Thinking about the beauty and terror and absurdity of existing helps draw the contours of who and what we are. Being in the ocean, away from the usual, everyday context, displaces us from the familiar and allows me to experience those feelings regularly. Sometimes all at once. My paintings are an attempt to put those feelings somewhere, to make them tangible through the paint.
The mapping of form and shape is an attempt to picture the world as I see it with paint, continually reframing the exchange between positive and negative shapes, light and shadow.
There's space in the lines that we draw, and their truth is approximate. Making pictures is a direct way of engaging with the conversational nature of reality.
Exhibitions
2024
Turbulence: The Speed of Sight
Artist-In-Residence
Galerie des Cimes
Meribel, Rhone-Alpes, France
Small Joys
Kennedy Contemporary
Newport Beach, California
More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux
Oceanside Art Museum
Oceanside, California
Turbulence: Une Exposition de Peintures
Artist-In-Residence
Galerie des Cimes
Meribel, Rhone-Alpes, France
2023
Making Waves: Heather Zusman + Shane McClatchey
Kennedy Contemporary
Newport Beach, California
California Cool
Laguna Art Museum
Laguna Beach, California
Wildlife Group Show
NOAH Hideout
Amagansett, New York
2022
24x24
Kennedy Contemporary
Newport Beach, California
2021
Shane McClatchey
NOAH Hideout
Amagansett, New York
2020
Artist-In-Residence: Shane McClatchey
Artist Association of Nantucket
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Made In California
Brea Gallery
Brea, California
2019
40th Anniversary Show
Main Street Gallery
Manasquan, New Jersey
LCAD Alumni Show
Gallery 805
Laguna Beach, California
2018
Naturescape
CAP Gallery
Laguna Beach, California
Idyllwild Faculty Show
Idyllwild Arts Gallery
Idyllwild, California
The Next Wave: New Masters of Fine Art
Gallery 805
Laguna Beach, California
Regarding Reality
Q Art Salon
Santa Ana, California
RELISH LA
Joseph Gross Gallery / Coagula Curatorial
Los Angeles, California
SoCal MFA Juried Exhibition
Millard Sheets Art Center
Pomona, California
2017
Lea Colie Wight / Shane McClatchey
Main Street Gallery
Manasquan, New Jersey
Emerging Masters
Laguna Art Museum
Laguna Beach, California
2016
Taking Measure
Laguna Beach City Hall
Laguna Beach, California
Face Yourself
Cast of Crowns Art Collective
Laguna Beach, California
Let There Be Surf Art
Asbury Park Yacht Club
Asbury Park, New Jersey
2015
Strong Currents
LCAD Gallery
Laguna Beach, California
All You Need Is Love Juried Show
Art on 30th
San Diego, California