Kendall Shaw

Kendall Shaw is a New Orleans-born painter whose career has spanned a number of art styles—ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art to Minimalism to Pattern and Design to Color Field—with heightened emotion, pattern, shape, and vivid color predominant. Shaw’s work includes a series of thirty paintings based on the Torah of the Old Testament, as well as recent work with pure colors that he terms “Cajun Minimalism.”

Ten Things I Can’t Do Without

1. Another person with whom I share my life.
2. Light. Sunlight on grass.
3. My cane or a crutch, now that my knee is cartilage deprived.
4. A common language. English. Conversation, prose, poetry.
5. Heat, lots of it here in a New York winter.
6. Shelter. This Brownstone away from Manhattan was for gentle, lovely Frances.
7. Painting, making art.
8. Color.
9. Music.
10. My studio. Once I had one in then lively SOHO. Sold it to care for Frances 24/7.