Jeffrey Shurdut continues to perform his “American Dream" to live jazz in NYC's Greenwich Village. Upcoming show with 1687 to be announced. Check listings on All About Jazz in Sept/Oct.
In June 2001 Jeffrey Shurdut installed “Virtual Liberty" online. One month earlier Shurdut's “Prisoner of Hope" (Prisoner of Freedom) opens in Chelsea, New York City. Works are an amalgam of Nazi Germany and Corporate America. In 2000, November 19, The New York Times documents Jeffrey Shurdut's “American Dream" (American Scream) paintings. Works include “Big Eyes," “Work Makes You Free," and his sarcastic “Big Smiles." Other works include “Corporate Ladder." Re-occurring themes and symbols include masks, mania, stripes, and white fences.
In 2000, WLIW METRO Arts TV features Shurdut's work as the artist discusses the dichotomy and double standard of a so-called “Free" America. In December 1999 Shurdut returns from Scandinavia where he was an Artist in Resident.
Jeffrey Shurdut begins to incorporate stripes (representing the American Flag and cages) into his satirical “Big Eyes" (1993) and “Big Smiles" (1994) concept. Other symbols such as fallen buildings, green faces (representing self defeating greed of Corporate America), and scribbled out airplanes (addressing an ironically and ultimately doomed convention) surface.
Jeffrey Shurdut's work will challenge our ideas for years to come. His work continues landscaping long after it is done, delivering us through insight and irony to the idea we call America.
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