The United Gas Pipe Line Company Collection

UGPL 0125 Shields, Alan, Medium Lattice, 18/25, two sided print — mixed media, 17” x 17,” 1975

Alan Shields (1944- )

Written in 1976 for the catalog and reproduced as printed, with spelling corrected. Not current.

Shields’ first one-man show was held at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York in 1969. Since then, his work has been widely exhibited: the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston gave him a one-man show, as did the Hansen Fuller Gallery in San Francisco; the Texas Gallery, Houston; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the University of Rhode Island and the Janie C. Lee Gallery in Dallas.

Shields was born in 1944 in Harrington, Kansas and studied at Kansas State University and the Theater Workshop of the University of Maine. He has been included in many major group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art, Albright-Knox, Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, the Corcoran Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

From The Art Collection of United Gas Pipe Line Company (Houston, 1976), curated by Susan Rush.