Shelley Vouga

As a child Shelley Vouga would spend her free afternoons admiring the paintings and sculptures housed in the museums of her native Switzerland, finding herself drawn more to the pure abstractions of shape and color than more literal representationalist works.  Later she found a similar appeal in the designs she encountered working in a jeweler's shop.  It is no surprise, then, that Shelley felt herself blooming in her own artistic life when she was exposed to the possibilities inherent in digital art.  Here she combines the geometric angles of gemology with iterations accessible by computer to create realms within which the viewer is immersed. Shelley's expressionistic representation of her inner world often takes shape as expanses of sheet metal or filigree with washes of dramatic, solid color floating in the blackness of the void.  

"My screen is my painting," she states, "where I weave my feelings, my enjoyments, and my fears."  Shelley Vouga's imagery of self allows us to come into contact with one woman's idealistic reality.