Pacific Coast
Spotlight Artist
Kira Maria Shewfelt
Pacific Coast
Artist Statement
My work is inspired by the edges of subjectivity and the ways in which a body contains and permits feeling. I’m interested in symbols that reframe everyday moments and current happenings into cosmic propositions, porous to history, repetition, and shared experience. I invite romance and fantasy into the work as politically inclusive gestures, with a history of connecting self and other, and reimagining stasis. My paintings are often about love.
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