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

http://www.tryst3.com/issue

January 2004

http://www.lifesherpa.com

Contributing Artist 2003 – 2006

http://www.amanoverboard.net

April 2003

http://wiredheart.hispeed.com/

September 2003