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Shari Pettis

Location:
Gary, IN
Birthdate:
April 14
Gender:
Female
Specialty:
Artist
Status:
Emerging Artist

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"Well, having all the answers just isn't as much fun, now is it?"

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About Me:
You can see more images and find out where I'm exhibiting if you visit my website, ShariPettis.com. I depict the ubiquitous shapes and structures of my daily surroundings in my paintings. Reoccurring images of parking lots, broken signs, trees and streetlights reflect long periods spent in my car. My intent is to create a cinematic sense of isolation, a disconcerting calm. In order to achieve this quality, I use blunt compositions and simplify select objects to the point of symbolic forms. Manmade and non-manmade objects are juxtaposed in landscapes of saturated, artificial colors. With paint I create some surfaces thick and smooth with crisp edges, while leaving some areas to loose brushstrokes. I employ these contrasts of texture, varying degrees of abstraction and synthetic colors to disturb the quiet of the sparse compositions. My goal is for each painting to resonate ominously by toying with ideas about what is and is not considered to be our natural environment. By challenging traditional notions of romantic landscapes that represent contentment by omitting all signs of human inhabitation, I aim to depict a restless romanticism that emphasizes the artifacts of my society.
Hobbies:
Reading, Eating Out, Theater, Outdoor Activities, Cooking, Live Music, Watching Films, Pets
Favorite Movies:
Eternal Sunshine, I Heart Huckabees, The Door in the Floor, Before Night Falls, American Movie, Buffalo '66, The Science of Sleep, Donnie Darko, Dancer in the Dark, Barry Lyndon, Triplets of Belleville, Dogville, Dead Man, Ghost World, Sex & Lucia, Ameli
Favorite TV Shows:
I try to avoid TV, but my guilty pleasure are those house-flipping shows. And the dog shows.
Favorite Music:
Radiohead, Belle & Sebastian, everything in-between.

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    Schulteis

    about 8 hours ago

    840 comments

    Your colors and compositions are exactly what is needed in these stagnant stale times I call the '00s.
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    Jasna

    about 1 month ago

    16 comments

    Hey you. I do miss you too! And, I cant comment on individual pieces, cuz I do feel they need to be seen as a whole. I love the bold colors. Love them! Its an important step for you I feel. And I saw Crystals comment, how she misses your painterly quality in some of them... that I don't agree with, I feel its very important to do things you haven't done before. And you are doing them, slowly but surely (subject matter is still there, yet you've def changed it). I do feel, however, your best work is yet to come! And that is very promising, and inspiring.
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    lillyharms

    about 1 month ago

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    thanks for the gift and i love your work. L