Sheila Ghidini

Statement

My studio practice takes two forms, drawing and installation. Drawing is my means of close observation, of perceiving light as it moves across forms and surfaces while attempting to capture degrees of change through varying values. Paying close attention to ordinary objects and re-presenting them using the simple tool of a pencil has fascinated me from a very early age.

Through past works, chairs have become a leit-motif. Using this mini-architecture to reference both presence and absence, they appear in both my drawings and installations. In this series of drawings, as well as close observation of light and shadow, other traditional drawing devices come into play, specifically that of linear perspective.  In the drawings of gatherings of chairs, each chair is drawn with a slightly different vanishing point…a different “perspective.” If drawn accurately based on traditional Western linear perspective, there would be one or perhaps two vanishing points in each of these drawings, but in this case there are as many vanishing points as there are chairs.

Sheila Ghidini Resume.pdf