KENDRICK "RUSTY" SHACKLEFORD was born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1978.  He attended the Atlanta College of Art and received a BFA in 2002 from Reinhardt College in Georgia and an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2004.  Shackleford's work in collage, sculpture and drawing is an intuitive interpretation of cultural imagery through color and form.  Shackleford is a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a two time resident of the Vermont Studio Center.  Shackleford has exhibited at Gallery 100 of the Woodruff Art Center in Atlanta, Georgia, Rosenberg Gallery at Goucher College and Gallery Four in Baltimore, Maryland and most recently at Old Gold in Chicago, IL. He currently resides and works in Chicago, IL.