Ted Shado

Quick Biography: Ted Shado (Canadian) I have been creating art for thirty-seven years and shown in many galleries and juried shows. I studied visual art at the University of Windsor (B.F.A.) and received my Architectural Technology certification from Ryerson University and my teaching degree from the University of Toronto (B.Ed.). I am currently teaching visual art at the secondary school level; while creating and exhibiting art for thirty-seven years. For eleven years I managed my architectural firm and then taught for twenty years. I have recently decided to do art for the art aficionado and displaying my artwork on the world wide web: instead of doing art for the elite. I draw abstract images on the computer and photograph reality in all its splendour. I have been exhibiting on the web at since 1998. Think about it and enjoy....

Artist Statement: 04.10.74/redone 22.09.04 I am a visual recorder of all that I have imagined. As a visual artist, my greatest challenge is to communicate the complex imagination, in a beautiful simple abstract image. I am trying to depict images that may be incomprehensible but are always enticing. My visual paraphernalia is the purest record of my inner life and dreams. I am intrigued by the images the mind creates that may appear lifeless, but are inspired by nature. I have chosen the abstract image for two reasons. With the invention of the camera and all it derivations, hand reproduction of reality to me, is a waste of time. The imagination is the real mother lode that I believe should be tapped. In addition I am intrigued with capturing reality using the camera. The visual reality I am trying to create, is a world that is steadily vanishing. This reality, is a simple rural landscape that existed before people and technology changed it forever. This image of reality I am hoping will transport the viewer temporarily to a time and place where we once lived in harmony with nature. My sincerity is subsumed in my work and it needs no other abstract entity to describe it, such as the written word. Hopefully, my images will inspire beautiful feelings.

Grants

Ontario Arts Council; for one man show, 1976, Toronto, Ontario.