Professor Shanks works with a range of subjects, focusing on the transformations yielded in print media processes. Bradlee creates symbols and stories that allude to contemporary life, taking form in complex images both figural and landscape.  Professor Shanks states, “My pictures are meant to serve as a trigger, a point of departure for knowing something I otherwise would not know. This intrigues me, for what is beyond my mundane capability dwells an elegant purpose, a consciousness that reveals itself through art. I believe something intensely personal also represents a fragment of universality”.

Professor Shanks has exhibited in over 100 national and international group exhibitions including the 2006 International Printmaking Competition, Istanbul, Turkey, 2006 Colorprint USA, Lubbock, TX; and the 2007 Boston PrintmakersNorth American Print Biennial, Boston, MA. Shanks work can be found in numerous collections including The Fogg Museum, Boston and the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City.