Marvin Lyle Shafer | Artist at Mondoir

Nationality: American

Based in: Chicago, US

Biography

20 years as a goldsmith, 35 years making mobiles in anodized aluminum.

Artist Statement

My focus is always on beauty, wherever it lies. Born into poverty searching for the path forward.

Exhibitions

Joy Horwich Gallery, C.D Peacocks Skokie, Blum's Vogue Chicago, B.Weinstein Chicago, Cartier N.Y., Laykins et cie Chicago, Trimorti's N.Y., Lakehurst Invitational Lake Forest IL, Tweed Museum of Art honorable Mention Duluth MN, Smithsonian Gift store Washington DC, Cleveland Museum store Cleveland OH, Whitney Museum store NY, Art Institute Museum Store Chicago, and over thirty five Museum stores across the United States.

Awards

Niche Award International for best sculpture 2013; Best of Show Award from Uptown Art Fair MN 2022 AVA Community Art Center Gilette, WY "Beauty in the Ordinary" 2024; "Ho'omaika Invited artwork for 14th Annual Abstract Only" Wailoa Center Hawaii 2024; "At by the Foot" Center for the Visual Arts Wausua WI 2024; "Connect" Rhode Island Art League RI 2024; Online shows Biafarin invited artist-"Colorful Symphony", U. of Utah Spencer Fox Eccles School of medicine, Beauty and Splendor, The Sky Above, Call for Exhibition Proposals, I See You, Anti-War, Here and Now, Valentine, Forms and Figures, Solo S (13th,14th,16th), Ups and Downs, Viva la Vida, Abstraction:Forms, Lines and colors, Happiness, Look at Me, War and Peace, Tranquillum, Venus, Shapes and colors, True Beauty, Insprations, Be True Be You, Believe, It's Time. 14th Annual Abstract Only. Curves, Gallerium 3rd Annual Juried Art Prize, Colarium, Creative Minds, Nature's Beauty, Portraits, Abstract Zone, Unreal, Spirituality, Biafrin 4th Annual Awards, , "Artistonish Magazine" Published Issue 41st, 42nd, 43rd, 44th, 48th, 49th, and 51st. 2023, 2024 "Observica Magazine" Published 27th Issue 2024 CCAN Abilene TX 2024 "Art Life and Design" Rhode Island Art League 2024-2025

Education

National Science Foundation Grant at Loyola University, Chicago, IL BFA (Honors) U of I Champaign IL Graduate Studies at U of IL Champaign IL Teaching Experience: Graduate Assistantship U of I Champaign IL 1968 Head of Art Dept, Parker Upper grade Center, Chicago Board of Ed, 1968-1972 Instructor in Metals, Roosevelt University, Chicago, 1974-75 Jewelry Design Instruction for Adult Education Evanston High School,1974 Head of Jewelry Dept Evanston Art Center/Kendall College. 1972-1977