My pictures are meant to serve as a trigger, a point of departure for knowing something I otherwise would not know. This intrigues me, for what is beyond my mundane capability dwells an elegant purpose, a consciousness that reveals itself through art.  I believe something intensely personal also represents a fragment of universality.

 

 

Bradlee Shanks lives in Tampa, FL and works as print media artist.  The artist received his M.F.A. from Arizona State University in 1986, and since then has taught at the University of South Florida. In the last twenty years Shanks has exhibited in over 150 national and international group exhibitions including the 2007 Wrexham Print International, Boston Printmakers 2007 North American Print Biennial, 31st Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, 2006 Colorprint USA, and Print Arts Northwest Currents 2006.  Shanks work can be found in numerous collections including The Fogg Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City.