Lee
Shiney
 316-516-2948,  120 E Kodiak St, Kechi KS 67067, 
 I am a full-time, self-taught, working artist, making artwork in a small community near Wichita, Kansas. My history involves work in graphic design and commercial screen printing, creating and publishing Teachnet.com, and running the former Lee Shiney Gallery. I had successful cancer treatment in 2001.
Working in a variety of styles and mediums, I let technology and art intertwine in the creative process. My production techniques use motorized devices, as well as handheld tools to manipulate paint and move paintings. Making those devices could be described as "Art Making Art", and is an integral part of the entire creative process. As such, my work is imbued with elements of mechanics, randomness, and the passage of time.
My work includes, but is not limited to, painting, encaustic, kinetic sculpture, photography, and a wide variety of mixed media work.
Circles are seen in much of my work, but only because they are simple, iconic figures that serve a particular purpose. Their creation is often just the result of the mechanics I employ, and they also represent an ideal starting point for creative experimentation. Otherwise, I embrace tangents and mistakes, and pursue a deliberate agenda of randomly working in multiple disciplines and avoiding narrowly defined signature styles. Much of what I do uses elements of reuse and recycling. There are no failures, only pathways to further creative experimentation.
Sharing is an important aspect of creation, and I try to make my work available and accessible. This includes working with students in classroom settings, giving digital art away on my website, showing people how to make their own art, and giving my time to certain causes.
I completed a two-year exhibit at the Wichita Art Museum in March 2010.
Video: Machines and the Production of Art
Video: Painting Process
Video: Moiré Wheels
CV
Museums
"InterACTIVE", a kinetic installation at the Wichita Art Museum (with Christopher Gulick and Tom McGuire),
Spring 2008 through Spring 2010, Wichita KS
Awards
ArtAid12 Buddy Greenburg Patron Award, 2005, Wichita KS
Charities, Causes & Donations
Arts Partners participating artist, 2010
Red Chair Affair benefit for the Orpheum Theatre, Wichita KS: 2009, 2010
Reds, Whites and Tasty Bites, benefit for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Wichita KS: 2009, 2010
Art for Arthritis, benefit for the Arthritis Foundation, Wichita KS: 2010
ArtAID, Wichita KS: 2005 - 2009
Career Day, Jackson Elementary, Wichita KS: 2008, 2009
Wichita Center for the Arts Annual Art Auction: 2008
ALS Benefit featured artist, Postcard Planet, Wichita KS: 2008
Youthville Chalk Art Festival, Newton KS: 2008
Publications & Presentations
ArtKC365, "Maintaining the Soft Machine: Lee Shiney at Urbana Modern Furniture Studio", art review (out of print, archived here)
Artstew Magazine - Issue 7
Career Day, Val Jackson Elementary, Wichita KS, Jan. 2009
Proteus Magazine Online, Issue 6
Naked City Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, Dec. 2007
Wichita City Paper, February 2007
Art & Antiques Magazine, "Automatic Artwork", September 2005
Solo Exhibitions
Horizon - August 2010, Watermark Books, Wichita KS
Old News - Mar. 2010, Art of Healing, Wichita KS
Water Place Explore - June 2009, Exploration Place, Wichita KS
Colloid - April 2009, Pachamamas, Lawrence KS
Guilt 2 - Sep. 2007, Rock, Paper, Scissors, Wichita KS
Sofa Size - 2006, Commerce Gallery, Wichita KS
Guilt - 2005, Winds of Change Gallery, Wichita KS
Stop (Beating the Dead Horse) - 2005, Linesight Gallery, Wichita KS
Detritus - 2003, Firehouse Art Gallery, Wichita KS
Group Exhibitions
Group show with Elly Fitzig and Travis Hinnen, Jones Gallery, Mar. 2010, Wichita KS
Urbana Furniture Studio, Sept. 2009, Kansas City, MO
rEvolve: presented by Hack.Art.Lab at Diver Studio, Nov. 2008, Wichita KS
The Donut Whole, Nov. 2008, Wichita KS
ArtAid 15, Oct. 2008, Cotillion, Wichita KS
Robot Show, Commerce Gallery, Oct. 2008, Wichita KS
ALS Benefit, Featured Artist, Oct. 2008, Wichita KS
Dumpster Diving, Aug. 2008, CityArts, Wichita KS
Chalk Art Festival - June 2008, Newton KS
Salon des Refusés - May 2008, Commerce Gallery and Redline Gallery at Lawrence Photo, Wichita KS
ArtAid14, Oct. 2007, Cotillion, Wichita KS.
2007 Arts Council Annual Juried Art Exhibit at CityArts - Oct. 2007, CityArts, Wichita KS
The Geographical Center of a Shrinking Planet: Local Artists in the Global Age - March 2007, Erman B. White Gallery, Butler County Community College, Eldorado KS
Mixed Media Mixed Message - March 2007, Gallery 414, Wichita KS
Free (with Chris Frank) - Feb. 2007, Tangent Lab, Wichita KS
Art Olio - Feb. 2007, Gallery PBH, Wichita KS
Leftovers Again - 2006, Tangent Lab, Wichita KS
ArtAid13, Oct. 2006, Cotillion, Wichita KS.
KC Ad Club Benefit Auction - 2006, Kansas City MO
Plane Crazy - 2006, CityArts, Wichita KS
Honey I Love You...But it is time for you to go - 2006, Lawrence Photo, Wichita KS
Semi-Automatic (with Jim Phillips) - 2005, Firehouse Art Gallery, Wichita KS
Some-Art Sem-Antics (collaboration with Kenneth Boe Petersen) - 2005, Newman University, Wichita KS
Modernism: Abstract, Non-Objective and Mid-Century Influence - 2005, Commerce Gallery, Wichita KS
ICT Invention and Contraption Convention - 2005, The Go Away Garage, Wichita KS
Move (with Christopher Gulick) - 2004, The Farm, Kansas City MO
War Against Visual Pollution - 2004, Firehouse Art Gallery, Wichita KS
Some-Art Sem-Antics (collaboration with Kenneth Boe Petersen and Kent Williams) - 2004, Newman University, Wichita KS
Art101 - 2004, CityArts, Wichita KS
Pushing All the Wrong Buttons - 2003, CityArts, Wichita KS
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