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Shea Bajaj’s artwork has been exhibited in showings nationwide including the Seattle Art Museum, Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Kirkland Art Center, Center On Contemporary Art, Stamford Art Center, Bank of America Gallery as well as gallery representation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artist Gallery,  Dolby Chadwick Gallery and  Traver Gallery. In addition, his artwork resides in public, corporate and private collections nationwide.

Shea Bajaj received training in art at Willamette University and architecture at the University of Oregon. His major inspirations are the paintings of Robert Irwin, Agnes Martin, Mark Rothko and the sculptures of James Turrell and Anish Kapoor. In addition to working as a studio artist, Shea is a principal at the architectural design firm of Viridian Architecture & Design - www.viridiandesign.net

artist statement

As a pilot and artist, light and its creation of constantly shifting atmospheres are perennial fountains of inspiration. Rather than just creating a style of painting, my current work circumnavigates varying qualities of light and color using multiple perspectives. In this way each painting is a unique interpretation and visual journey. This led me on a quest to find a medium that could depict these layered subtleties. From studying the Northwest Masters (Mark Tobey and Morris Graves in particular) I was struck by how they captured very unique qualities of light and happened to all paint with tempera. Inspired by these masters, I have found that using the 15 th century Florentine medium of raw pigment mixed with egg yolk gives the translucent quality that I sought after in creating my own modern paintings. As it was for these artists, the ability to create luminous color layers and depict detail, are the strengths of egg tempera. The luminous sheen and translucent layering effects capture beauty like no other medium can, as in Botticelli’s Birth of Venus or Wyeth’s staggering wheat fields.

Thank you for your interest in my art.