The Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

Featuring:
Sheila Elias
Retrospective Exhibition
June 20 - August 15, 2008
Reception: July 10th, 6-8pm

41 Second Street
Cambridge, MA 02141
617-577-1400
www.cmacusa.org

click here to view slideshow of exhibition

Substance in Turmoil, Flights of Mystery
by Robert C. Morgan

The art of Sheila Elias abounds with ideas and images flowering into a celebrative mode of authenticity.  Her paintings and recent digital photographs sustain an ecstatic momentum through the use of evocative forms and figures that suggest conflict, balance, and intrigue.  The bodily sensations revealed in her paintings and photographs moving through a weirdly tenuous pictorial space beckon all inhabitants on planet Earth to reclaim their destiny. In recent years, Elias’ work has involved people in flight, a musical rift through time and space. Her figures fall out of blue skies or skirt beside one another, fraught with emotion, often in a relaxed state of abandonment unencumbered by gravity.  Her complex digital images escape the realm of the rational. They hark back as much to Berlin Dada as to a quixotic style of figurative expressionism.  They hold fast to an apocalyptic aesthetic demeanor and a vernacular sense of being.
Read complete essay here >

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Loredo Center For the Arts, Laredo, Texas

Sheila Elias
RETROSPECTIVE
August 4- September 26th, 2008

Lila G. Martinez Gallery
Reception: Friday August 8th, 6-8 pm

500 San Augustin Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02141
956-725-1715
www.laredoartcenter.org

Substance in Turmoil, Flights of Mystery
by Robert C. Morgan
Read complete essay here >

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Sheila is participating at the Saatchi Showdown from March 10 to March 17, 2008
click on link below to cast your visitor vote!

Saatchi Showdown
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?showpic=122792

THE ART OF DIGITAL SHOW :: THE LYCEUM THEATRE GALLERY
OCTOBER 6 - NOVEMBER 11, 2007

OPENING RECEPTION OCTOBER 6TH, 6-9PM

Sheila Elias will be exhibited in this major international exhibition. Her artwork was among only 104 pieces
selected by Neal Benezra (San Francisco Museum) from 2796 entries submitted by artists in 40 countries! 

Click here to read Press Release

79 Horton Plaza
in the historic Gaslamp Quarter
San Diego, CA 92101-6144
Tel: 858-793-0900

website: http://www.artofdigitalshow.com/lyceum.html

Hours: Monday - Friday: 10 am - 5 pm
Saturday and Sunday: noon - 5 pm

Featured Photography in Exhibition

Plane Dancer
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Previous Exhibitions                 • bass museum • elements • sonic silence • art with a view • the louvre

CHELSEA GALLERIA (WYNWOOD) :: 20/20
Celebrating Twenty Years with Twenty Gallery Artists

DEC 6 - DEC 30, 2006

Chelsea Galleria Wynwood celebrates twenty years since its’ founding in on Chelsea Avenue Kingston, Jamaica in 1986 with a group exhibition of twenty gallery artists. The gallery also celebrates its relocation to the Wynwood Arts District and  inclusion of international contemporary Fine Art in addition to its original commitment to Caribbean Contemporary Art.

2441 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
phone: 305-576-2950
www.chelseagalleria.com

Featured Photography in Exhibition

Sky Painter

Plane Dancer

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BASS MUSEUM :: I Wanna Be Loved by You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe
MARCH 2006

Featured Art in Exhibition

CHELSEA GALLERIA (WYNWOOD) :: “ELEMENTS"
DEC 05- JAN 2006
solo exhibition.

2441 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
phone: 305-576-2950
www.chelseagalleria.com

"Sheila Elias' new photography is a bold departure from the paintings for which she has been recognized as one of Miami's most important artists. Reflecting a perpetually curious and adventuresome mind, the combination of photographic and digitally applied imagery of Sheila's latest work fairly erupts off the surface with powerful undertones of a society in turmoil with the promise of redemption just over the horizon.

The glowing colors, sometimes feminist imagery, and sheer beauty of the work signal an important breakthrough for this artist at a significant moment in her career." - Tina Spiro.


Featured Art in Exhibition

Jan 7-9, 2005
1232 NE 2nd Avenue Miami
Telephone: 305 576.2950
Brought to you by the new MIART Foundation

Details about this exhibition >

AJJapour Gallery :: "Art With A View 5 | The American Dream"
January 2005

"Art l with a View l 5 –The American Dream pays homage to the quintessential dream sequence in "The Wizard of Oz."
The works displayed are referential rather than representational to the time-honored classic story of a young person on a spiritual journey to answer the unanswerable questions. Beyond the allegorical narrative, the Exhibition also explores the boundaries of safety in an increasingly complex world where the concept of what is safe and unsafe is blurred". A Japour.