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Unless collections are noted all pieces are available for purchase.

For some time now I have been building a collection of photographs through purchase and barter. This collection is a great source of inspiration, reference and historical documentation for me and my family.

Please contact me if you wish to trade prints for prints.

sheltonw at earthlink dot net

73 Warren Street #4
Brooklyn, NY 11201
917.273.4501

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bio

1963
born Pampa, Texas
1969-1973
Elvis impersonator
1975
meet lifelong friend and collaborator Steve Cooley
1982
attend college briefly Texas Tech Lubbock,Texas;meet mentors Jackie Decker and Courtenay Mathey who encourage artistic endeavor
1984-1986
work at Studtman Photo in Austin shooting real estate salesmen portraits
1987
receive scholarship at The San Antonio Art Institute, study drawing with Carl Embrey
1987-1992
show photographs and paintings with art director Julie Eskoff, Austin,Texas
1991
collaborative painting exhibit with Steve Cooley at Dobie Theatre, Austin, Texas
1992
paintings shown at Firestone Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico
1993
move to Europe; make collage, watercolors, photographs. Create Mezi-Hradi Books to hand bind and sell blank sketchbooks.
1993
in Prague Richard Giles introduces me to pinhole photography
1993-1994
teach Czech kids art with multimedia artist Amy Dolin
1994
mixed media exhibit at The Globe Bookstore, Prague
1993-1997
photographs and paintings are used by Harcourt Brace as book jacket illustration
1995
move to San Diego to execute painting for 13 jackets for the books of Italo Calvino
1995
collaborate on artists book,"Gargantuan My Desire" with playwright Julie Myatt
1997
move to New York City
1998
meet mentor/collector/master printer Chuck Kelton
1998
photographs exhibited by Gary Hustwit at Incommunicado Press, NYC
1998
marries Kassia Bratina
1999
photographs shown at Monique Goldstrom Gallery NYC
2000
paintings shown at Virgil Skye Gallery San Francisco, California
2001
birth of son Giles Willowbee
2001
collaborate on Loudmouth Collective book "Coming Up for Air" with multi-media artist Craig Foltz
2003
paintings exhibited by Gary Hustwit Plexifilm SOHO offices, NYC
2004
moves to Stonington,Connecticut
2005
Debevoise collection photographs exhibited by Howard Park and Sarah Seip, Stonington Connecticut

Publications include Texas Architect, Austin American Statesman, Austin Chronicle, Stonington Times, Mystic River Press, Harcourt Brace; Harvest Books, Houghton Mifflin; Mariner Books, Knopf, Vintage Books, Winter and Winter Music (Munich), Sony Music, BMI Music, Galaxia Gutenberg (Barcelona), Loudmouth Collective, Perseus Books, DaCapo Books, Svenska Forlaget Books (Stockholm), W.W.Norton, Pantheon Books, The Paris Review. Upcoming publications; Acuarella Records(Madrid) and Rizzoli Books.