SHAWN SERFAS
Shawn Serfas is a British Columbia based artist and lecturer with UBC Okangan's Creative and Critical Studies Department. Serfas pursued a Fine Arts and Art History degree in Saskatchewan as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree in Alberta. However, he was initially drawn to an academic career in Environmental Science and that interest remains at the core of his work. "Currently, my painting practice explores the relationships between identity, place, ancestral origin, religion and the environment. The environment offers a foundation for inquiry into the human struggle with itself, our sites of experiences and our purpose. The compositional similarities I find in the physical and human landscape fuel my dissection and abstraction of information for purposes of understanding the creative-act."
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