Gabriel Shaffer is a young, up and coming, southern self-taught / visionary artist, who lives and works in Asheville, NC. The son of nationally known folk/visionary artist Cher Shaffer, Gabriel was raised within the self taught medium and had contact with many folk and self taught masters as a young boy.
His complex work is often classified in the outsider art genre, but contains many elements of graffiti writing, collage and comic book/cartoon illustration.

Gabriel's unique art is driven by a manic obsession with the relationships between sound, symbol and image, as they are literally layer upon layer of graffiti, free association, collage and various medias, salvaged from assorted locations (abandoned hospitals, factories houses, dumpsters, etc.) which create a circuit board of color, texture and information, used to form haunting characters and communicate strange narratives from his own personal mythology.

Gabriel's characters consist of old legends, angels, protectors, tribal totems, dolls, puppets, flying houses, iconography, shapeshifters, ghosts, aliens, animals and any other bizarre form of creature or landscape his mind can conjure.

Gabriel is a solitary artist, who lives between planes, using the power of storytelling, to explore his inner worlds and simultaneously exorcise himself from the "madness of humanity". He has no other option than to "create to cope", as it is his belief makind is living in an "apocalyptic age". 

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To view Gabriel's full biography and other works visit:

www.gabrielshaffer.com

Gabriel Shaffer