Sheila Ghidini
An Ark, 2020

graphite on mylar
40”H x 122”W

ARTwork statement:

This drawing was produced at a very distressing time in the middle of a pandemic. Out of concerns for the future and the unknowns associated with survival, I was compelled to make an image representing culture and its preservation. Accumulated chairs in this case serve to represent this notion. The entire structure of this forward moving vessel is comprised of chairs, all moving through a fog of unknowns.

ARTIST BIO:

Sheila Ghidini was born in Connecticut. She attended Hartford Art School, University of Hartford and did graduate work at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She completed an MFA in sculpture at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving the Sylvan and Pam Coleman Memorial Fellowship. She was an artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and a summer visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally.