Spencer C Shoults is NOT an artist whose paintings draw the eye of the collector of quaint landscapes or sunny abstracts. His art is neither quiet nor still. Nor is it exactly loud and full of motion. Instead, it is steady, persistent in its impressions, and full of layers that show his process. He works dilligently and constantly with many different medium, elements, and ideas. What is contiguous is his sense of humor and story - the viewer is party to an open ended dialogue with each piece. Shoults plays with our sense of things, makes us uncomfortable without us exactly knowing why -- at least at first.
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