Riverside Arts Market - Jacksonville, FL

Shea A. Slemmer was born and raised on a small farm in central Florida. She always held a strong affinity towards music and art. After receiving her Associates Degree in Music Education in 1998, she shifted gears and moved her attention to visual arts. Slemmer then pursued her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and drawing at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, FL.

Her experience as a working artist was gained through a three-year stay in Savannah, GA where she produced several large bodies of work in her City Market studio. During that time Slemmer visited Paris and began making regular trips to Manhattan to start understanding the world art market. In 2006 she spent four months in Austin, Texas where she had a studio and worked with a wide array of talented artists. You can now find Slemmer working from Flux studio/gallery located in historic Five Points in the Riverside area.

This series is an attempt to negotiate a gap existing between the digital and analog art-world. There is a metaphorical bridge connecting visual dialect with viewer interpretation. As the world is rapidly becoming digitized and technological advancements happen at an exponential rate, we sometimes forget the honest labor of two hands.

Shea believes we twist and turn in an ever changing web of social continuance whereby we each influence one another, and therefore humanism has become her primary source of inspiration. The paintings that develop are mosaics of decisive strokes of color relying on composition and implied imagery that strive to expose our evident humanity.

See more of Shea's work at www.studios-shea.com and www.fluxjacksonville.net

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