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HOUSTON, TX (Press Release) -- The Masur Museum of Art is proud to announce Vitus Shell will participate in a two person exhibition at Gallery Jatad in Houston, Texas. Shell is the pilot artist for the Masur’s Studio Program. The Studio Program is designed to provide professional development for local artists of merit. The program is by invitation only and participants have a close working relationship with Masur staff. Shell’s exhibition, Identity, will be on view at Gallery Jatad from May 7 to June 13, 2015. The Opening Reception is on Saturday, May 9, from 3-6 pm. Shell will speak at 4pm. Gallery Jatad is located at 1517 Blodgett St, Houston, TX 77004.

Identity combines the artwork of two artists from Louisiana with antique African sculptural and textile objects. Gabrielle Savoy and Vitus Shell decipher their cultures and the archetypal characters that play a role in everyday life and community rituals. The antique African masks, figures, and textile objects from multiple tribes were created to be used in rituals to make order of and decipher the world around them. The photographs of Gabrielle Savoy and the collaged paintings of Vitus Shell converse beautifully with the antique African objects. The contemporary portraits create a dynamic juxtaposition with the figurative African portraits made of wood, ceramic, and fiber.

Vitus Shell has exhibited at the Masur Museum of Art, Treo New Orleans in conjunction with Prospect 3, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Stephen F. Austin Gallery in Nacogdoches, Texas, and many others. He holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi, Oxford. In 2006, he was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Graduate Fellowship followed by a residency at the Joan Mitchell Center in 2013. Shell was also a participant in the Residency program at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2008.

For more information about the exhibition at Gallery Jatad, please contact Matt Scheiner at info@galleryjatad or call 832.657.4328. www.galleryjatad.com

Please contact the Masur Museum of Art for more information about Vitus Shell. Additional images and the text from the introductory essay of Gallery Jatad’s exhibition catalog are available upon request to media outlets.

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