36 - Ghidini, Sheila - Shelter in Place series - 2021
Graphite and colored pencil on mylar
24" x 24" x 1"
Courtesy of the Artist and Pastine Projects, framed by Spot Design
This is a graphite and colored pencil drawing of interior spaces on mylar. During the pandemic and shelter in place, the artist completed about 40 of these overlapping interior space drawings.
Sheila Ghidini's work encompasses drawing, sculpture, installation, and site-specific public art. Her work has been shown and collected in private and public collections including The Archenbach Collection of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Runneymede Sculpture Farm in Woodside, CA; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 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 The American Academy in Rome summer program. She has received grants from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, the Krasner-Pollack Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Marcelle Labaudt Memorial Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and the Svane Family Foundation. Her public art projects engage communities, architecture, and the landscape. She has created public gathering spaces in San Jose, Campbell, Emeryville, CA; and Aurora, Colorado. Sheila collaboratively designed two MUNI Transit shelters on 19th Ave., in San Francisco and one transit shelter in Lodi, CA. She has taught art in schools throughout the Bay Area, including San Francisco State University, University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute, and California College of the Arts.
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