Bronson Shonk

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b. 1990 Atlanta, GA
Lives and works in Seattle, WA

Education
2017 Studied with Michael Schultheis, Seattle, WA
2013 BS ENVS & Studio Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Solo
2025 Solo Show, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA (forthcoming)
2024    Inflorescence, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA

Group
2024  Homo Faber Biennial Venice, Italy
2024 Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
2024 Group Show Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024 Group Show Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
2023    Group Show, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
2023    Group Show, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas, TX
2023 New Work, J. Willott Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
2022 Group Show, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas, TX
2021 New Work, J. Willott Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
2019 Group Show, Georgetown Seattle, WA

Media & Grants
2023 Luxe Magazine
2022 James Harnois Video
2021 Aint-Bad
2021 Here & There Magazine
2021 White Hot Magazine
2021 Friend of the Artist Studios
2020 MadArt Art Seattle Grant

With a focus on layering techniques, Seattle artist Bronson Shonk explores pictorial representations of growth; collapsed views of change over time.

Shonk paints on canvas and layers of glass carving into the surfaces and staining the engravings with pigment, a unique riff on the ceramicist's sgraffito technique. These intricately drawn details are blended with painterly gestures to evoke vibratory movement: The flutter of a hummingbird’s wings, a long exposure image, a starling murmuration. Motion is abundant.

Within his paintings the illusion of motion in a still image points out the limitations of our visual systems – we can only see one moment at a time. How does one conceptualize the growth of a child, or understand a family history? These questions are the catalyst to Shonk's paintings which aim to condense change over time into pictures – ones that can be viewed and felt in a single moment.

Contact: shonk.bronson@gmail.com