Alan Shields

(

1944–2005

)

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Shields built a world of thread and rhythm.

Canvases were sewn, painted, suspended — sculpture and tapestry merging. In his world, pattern is structure, and color becomes architecture in motion.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Alan Shields’s work, this approach appears where flexible materials disrupt geometric order, allowing structure to remain provisional rather than fixed.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Alan Shields’s work, this approach appears where flexible materials disrupt geometric order, allowing structure to remain provisional rather than fixed.

Chromatic Fields

Color fields operate as spatial and structural organizers.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Proportion

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Gesture

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.