Artist Feature: Shilo Ratner

This Friday, March 4th opens Sorelle's first Artist Feature of the year, showcasing original paintings by Connecticut-based artist Shilo Ratner. 

Shilo's geometric abstract paintings will be on display on the main wall at Sorelle in Westport, which includes four new paintings just added to the collection. Shilo's newest work maintains her trademark geometric elements, but also explores the application of her unique style to coastal scenes and mountain-scapes. Her work ranges in size, from 20" x 20" up to 60" x 60".  

Shilo Ratner holds an MFA in Painting from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California, as well as a B.A. in Design from Curry College in Massachusetts. She has been recognized for several honors from juried exhibitions and online galleries, and has shown her work in notable museum exhibitions including at the Museum of Contemporary Art in California and the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. From 2007 to 2009, she taught Painting and Drawing at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, and the Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica, California. She continues to teach private lessons from her current location in Connecticut. 

"In my art practice, I strive to create paintings that evoke an acute awareness and centered meditative state in regard to our daily surroundings, using a tight geometric abstract visual language. Often using a horizon line to create a point of reference for the viewer, my paintings evolve with varied opaque and translucent layers of acrylic paint on canvas. While I create a time-based visual context for my paintings with sunrises and sunsets in color choices and titles, my hyper-realistic execution of stillness through a tight complex network of lines and forms indicates an almost suffocating state of our present day reality... While easily interpreted as geometric abstract landscape paintings, it is my hope that the intensity of my compositions demands an unorthodox attention from the viewer to invest in a centered and calm vision within the chaos of our present day."

Shilo's work will be featured on display at Sorelle's Westport, CT gallery through Sunday, March 20th. Her work is also always available to view online at her Artist page. 

You can also go inside the studio with Shilo - read the blog and watch the interview here.