Artist: Shalina Mitchell | Location: Portsmouth, VA
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Artist: Shalina Mitchell | Location: Portsmouth, VA
Portsmouth, VA
Shalina Mitchell is an Alumni undergraduate that studied Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. My work revolves around human related studies and requires basic understanding of human circumstances and vulnerability in portrait paintings. During the foundation studies about the human body and philosophy, I found I was more interested in humans and the environment itself. To me, fine art is the best form to observe people, interpret by personal philosophy, and express the aesthetics through visual messages. As well as determination by my efforts to engage with the subliminal, and a rigorous search of truth. I produce paintings that address issues of identity in addition to inclusion, desuetude and struggle. Additionally, I experience this process as a series of investigations and discoveries from my surroundings.