Artist Bio
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Mr Shute is a contemporary painter whose work spans a wide range of themes and visual languages, yet is united by a deep engagement with process, materiality, and the expressive potential of abstraction. Whether exploring prehistory and geological time or navigating emotional and intuitive terrain, Mr Shute builds paintings through layered techniques that reveal, obscure, and rework the surface.
Across series and shifts in style, Mr Shute is drawn to the act of searching—both visually and conceptually. His paintings often emerge through a process of discovery, where the image unfolds gradually through repeated gesture, erasure, and revision. Texture, color, and scale become tools for evoking memory, transformation, and the unseen.
Based in Marcellus, New York, Mr. Shute has exhibited works in both oil and watercolor and continues to develop a practice that resists fixed narratives, instead offering space for multiplicity and reflection.
Background and Training
Shute was born and raised in upstate New York and at an early age began his artistic training at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York. Eric holds a degree in Education from S.U.N.Y @ New Paltz, a degree in Advertising and Illustration from Mohawk Community College and a BFA in painting from Syracuse University.
In addition to his academic training, Mr. Shute studied painting technique with nationally recognized artists: Hong Nian Zhang, (oil painting), advanced watercolor with Richard Segalman, advanced abstract painting with Jenny Nelson and water-based Monotype with Lisa Mackie all at the Woodstock School of Art.
Galleries and Affiliations:
Central New York Watercolor Society: Signature Member
Cazenovia Watercolor Society
Broad Street Gallery, Hamilton, New York
Smithy Gallery, Cooperstown, New York
ArtHaus Gallery, Syracuse, New York