Shane Guffogg (Guf-fogg; born August 12, 1962) is an American artist associated with the abstract art movement.

In the late 1970s Guffogg realized his passion for art and convinced his parents to let him build a studio on the farm.

After graduating high school in 1980, Guffogg traveled around Europe visiting various art museums for two months.

That fall, he began studying art in a local community college in the Tulare County area.

This particular process of layering is customary of the Masters and shows how Guffogg's work is rooted in ways of historical European painting techniques.

[6] After visiting the work of the Master's in person during his European travels, Guffogg came to the realization that art is a language in itself as it can explain certain things words cannot.

[7] As a result, his works can be thought to be its own language of signs and symbols through its patterns, visual depth and light; which can, in turn, emit emotion to the viewer and hints to Quantum Physics and Super String Theory.

[9] Guffogg said, “I would look at a tube [of paint] and smell it and dab a little bit on my fingers and wonder how artists could take this substance and make it into a work of art.

So I always wanted to be a magician in that regard.”[10] His fascination with the masters and art only continued as he flew to Europe the day after he graduated high school to finally see the works he had admired in person.

[10] After that summer, Guffogg enrolled in Porterville College where he put all his focus on painting and studied art history.

In 1985, he was chosen by Huebler and other faculty members at CalArts to attend an internship in New York where he could work at a gallery, museum, or as an artist assistant.

This space was used for different exhibitions[16] and to continue to open up the dialogue of the current state of contemporary art for artists and curators.

These works are created through 70 to 80 layers of translucent oil paint on canvas in order for the pieces to display illumination from within.

This method of applying the pattern to the painting shows Guffogg's attention to conscious and subconscious perceptions and his fascination with the way the human psyche operates.

Guffogg stated, “for me this is a continuous conversation between past and present, and about creating movement out of stillness in order to make the abstract real.”[19] Although most works in the abstract movement are about flattening of pictorial space and denying the Renaissance window, in this series Guffogg's goal was to create it.

He was also inspired by William Turner's seascapes that were made from 1835 to 1846, Mark Rothko's last works on paper, pieces by Rembrandt, and Jasper John's early ‘Alphabet’ paintings.

Then Guffogg would fold the paper with the drawing of negative space in half then cut out the shape would appear as a mirrored image.

These shapes created from negative space in his paintings spurred the idea of creating sculptures and would later become templates for the Murano glass series, “The Fifth Sound.” In 2004, Guffogg was approached by a Venetian art dealer that was looking to have a California artist collaborate with a Murano glass master.

He collaborated with the glass master to display this negative space found with in his oil paintings in a three- dimensional sculpture form.

The name of this series comes from a line in Gertrude Stein's 1913 poem, “Sacred Emily.” He was also inspired by a lecture she spoke at Oxford University where she shared that the word “rose” has three meanings: a person's name, a flower, and a concept.

[30] Guffogg's Amor Fati #1, 2013 sold under the "best sales" category at the Beach Cannes Auction in August 2016 for €148,100.

[34] In June 2017, Guffogg's As of Today #3, 2011 oil on canvas (60” x 80”) was sold for a record high price of $285,000 at Paris auction house, Cornette de Saint CYR.

[36] At the Still Point of the Turning World - Inhabit the Garden, completed in 2019 is an oil on canvas, 78 x 96 inches, SOLD at Cannes Encheres auction (France) for US$224,000.00 on July 19, 2019[37] On August 2, 2020, Guffogg's Hommage à Klien (At the Still Point of the Turning World - Behind Us Reflected in the Pool) 2017, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches, SOLD at Vermot & Associes Auction in France for US$136,000.00 (115,000.00 EURO).