ARTIST STATEMENT
Art for Art’s Sake. This is closer to the sublime. Agnes Martin described art as a high house. Milton Resnick stated the only direction in art that matters is that of ascendancy. All art that moves us, regardless of era or subject, becomes inspired moments experienced concurrently in the present through our own private past to be carried into our own future. I follow the vibrations set forth from the paint and materials themselves and find myself conversing in a silent language with a clear tongue, almost fluently.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago – Honorary member – nonprofit gallery dedicated to exhibiting women artists
Art Studies: Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington, D.C., SAIC, Chicago.
Selected Exhibitions
2024 ‘Perspectives of Nature’ Two Person Exhibition Loggia Gallery Fourth Church, Chicago
Annual 2019- 2023 Members Exhibition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
Annual 2019 Juried Exhibition Blue Mountain Gallery, NY. Elisa Jensen, juror.
Annual 2018 Juried Exhibition Bowery Gallery, New York, NY. Karen Wilkin, juror.
2018 Juried Exhibition Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY. Betty Cuningham, juror.
2018 ‘Color Me Happy Palmer House Chicago, featured artist, 2018.
2017 137th Annual Faber Birren National Color Award Exhibition, Stamford Art Association, Stamford, CT.
2017 International ‘Painting on the Edge 2017’ Exhibition, Federation of Canadian Artists, Vancouver, B.C.
2017 ‘Night Visions VI’, Coconino Center for the Arts Flagstaff, AZ.
2016 Featured Artists, Flow Art Space, St. Paul, MN.
‘A Curious Distortion’ Abstract Exhibition, Oak Park Arts League, 2016.
2016 ‘Gravity’ National Juried Exhibition, Brookline, MA. Katherine French, juror
2016 ‘Neoteric IV’ National Juried Abstract Show, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY.
2015 ‘Elements of Abstraction’ National Juried Show, SLAG Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
2014 ‘Oil & Water’ Exhibition, WMG Gallery, Chicago, Sara Krepp, Professor Emeritus Painting, SAIC, Chicago, juror.
© Yolanda Fernandez-Shebeko