About Tony Schanuel
Tony Schanuel
Schanuel Fine Art
Biography
Tony Schanuel is an award-winning digital artist who has fused a professional background in photography with advanced digital technology to create fine art that transcends both mediums.
Schanuel has received extensive international recognition and honors. He was selected by an international panel to exhibit his work at the 2003 ,2005 and 2007 Biennale Internazionale dell’ Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy and honors from the International Digital Artists Association, EFX Art & Design Magazine (Sweden) and Digital Photography & Design (Australia).
His work has been featured in Digital Imaging Magazine, Computer Graphics Magazine, Wild Heart Journal , St. Louis Design Magazine,and is a featured artist in Cyber Palette and Extreme Graphics, two books showcasing digital artists and their work, with a guide to the creative process.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is an exploration into the unseen world of consciousness, that last amazing frontier — inner space, one’s own consciousness. My goal is to inspire the viewer to the possibilities of the unseen world. I am inspired by visual artists Dali, MC Escher and Miro and the writings of Carl Jung,
Joseph Campbell and Antonio Machado. The incredible creative synergy of these influences merge with my Zen meditation practice to inform my art.
My background as a digital artist is grounded in my earlier career as a professional photographer. I’ve always been intrigued with the process of manipulating images in the darkroom. My earliest art was created by sandwiching color transparencies in the printing process, creating images that were photographic yet surreal.
Fifteen years ago, I entered the digital medium with my first Macintosh computer. The computer gave me new freedom to express, create, experiment and explore realms of reality in ways I never could have imagined.
My hope is that my art, and the nearly endless images embedded within, will transport viewers to their own sense of wonder and discovery
ART EXHIBITIONS
Schmidt Art Center – August 2006
Technology & the Natural World
Study in contrasts is the hallmark of this exhibition, featuring the work of photographer and digital artist Tony Schanuel and sculptor Adam Long.
Solo Show
Pixels to Pigments – March 2006
Fontebonne College
St. Louis, Missouri
Regional Photographic Exhibit – January 2006
Foundry Art Centre
St. Charles, Missouri
One Man Show – October 2005
Digital Artist
Columbia College
Columbia, Missouri
Digital International Ink & Light Fine Arts Exhibition – June 2005
Meramec College and St. Louis Artist Guild
St. Louis Missouri
Transportation – April 2005
Foundry Art Centre
St. Charles, Missouri
True Fiction – February 2005
Foundry Art Centre
St. Charles, Missouri
The Paper Show / On and with Paper – September 2004
Foundry Art Centre
St. Charles, Missouri
Our Common Ground – July 2004
Random Thoughts
Lebanon, Illinois
Resident Artist Exhibit – July 2004
Foundry Art Centre
St. Charles, Missouri
Dreaming in Glass – July 2004
One Man Show
Fleury Gallery
Houston,Texas
Over 36, Under 12 Exhibit – July 2004
Foundry Art Centre
St. Charles, Missouri
Central West End Art Exhibit – June 2004
Best in Show/Graphics Award
St. Louis, Missouri
IDAA Digital Top 100 Winners Exhibit – May 2004
Queen Victoria Art Museum
Sydney, Australia
International Digital Top 100 Art Awards – May 2004
Academy of the Arts,
University of Tasmania
Tasmania
Art Dimensions Gallery – February 2004
St. Louis, Missouri
Best In Category Award
Biennale Internazionale dell’ Arte Contemporanea – December 2003
Florence, Italy
Digital Fine Art 2003 – November 2003
Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Art of Photography – Fall 2003
St. Louis Artist Guild
St. Louis, Missouri
Epson International Digital Art Exhibition – Spring 2003
Australia
The Off The Road Show – June 2003
Our Common Ground
Greenville, Illinois
Primordial 1: Water – April 2003
Art St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
Primordial 1: Water – June 2003
Traveling Show
St. Louis, Missouri
Expressions of Nature – September 2002
Visions Gallery
O’Fallon, Illinois
Motions/The Photography Show – May 2002
St. Louis Artist Guild
St. Louis, Missouri
Chackra – Spring 2000
Schanuel Exhibit/One Man Show
Vitality Unlimited Spa
Webster Groves, Missouri
PUBLICATIONS
St. Louis Design Magazine – November 2004
Artist Profile
Computer Graphics World Magazine – Winter 2003
United States
Art Studio
Wild Heart Journal – Winter 2003
United States
Art & Thought
Digital Photography & Design – Autumn 2003
Australia
IDAA Digital Art Top 100 Awards Winner
St. Louis Design Magazine – June 2003
Artist Profile
EFX Art & Design – Spring 2003
Sweden
Featured Artist
Digital Photography & Design – Autumn 2001
Australia
IDAA Digital Art Top 100 Awards Winner
Digital Photography & Design – Winter 2001
Australia
IDAA Digital ArtTop 100 Awards Winner
EFX Art & Design – Autumn 2000
Sweden
Featured Artist
CyberPalette 1998
Dimensional Illustrators, Inc.
Hearst Books International
Artist Profile
Extreme Graphics 1998
Dimensional Illustrators, Inc.
Hearst Books International
Artist Profile
E-ZINE AND WEB PUBLICATIONS
January 2004
Contributing Artist 2003 – 2006
April 2003
http://wiredheart.hispeed.com/
September 2003
Fabulous! Inspirational…thank you
Thanks Shirley.
cheers
Tony
Thanks Shirley for your kind words
cheers
Tony