Featured Mixed Media Painting: Fabricate::Recreate

The featured 6′ x 3′ x 2″ mixed media is available in the Shop. For inquiries, please e-mail: sarah.ikerd@studio-shangri-la.com WHAT: This large conceptual mixed media is from 2023, and it’s two large terraced recycled canvases with upcycled textile strips. Other materials include prominent mica, acrylic paints, and water based spray paints and glosses. HOW: MakingContinue reading “Featured Mixed Media Painting: Fabricate::Recreate”

Featured Sustainable Mixed Media: “Tapestry Of We”

The first note about this tapestry is that it’s still in progress. Given experience with previous mixed media, the process of the piece can also look really interesting. I find it already compelling in its natural form, as a combination of upcycled materials: ‘Yard waste’ or found wood, fabric that is/was a curtain, other recycledContinue reading “Featured Sustainable Mixed Media: “Tapestry Of We””

Featured Artwork: “Fabricate::Recreate” 7’x3’ Mixed Media

”Fabricate::Recreate” is a large mixed media on deep canvas that incorporates recycled fabrics and is covered in layers with acrylics, mica and water based spray paint. It took me a few months to complete. The theme is the ongoing process of personal and cosmic transformation or fabrication of “prima materia,” the primordial starting material. ItContinue reading “Featured Artwork: “Fabricate::Recreate” 7’x3’ Mixed Media”

Studio Shangri-La Mixed Media @ Bogosplit, Copley Place

It’s great to be able to partner with Bogosplit at both Assembly Row and now Copley Place for this mixed media feature. On display and for sale are “fabricate::recreate” and “Alchemy Sun.” fabricate::recreate is a tribute to the unending process and potential of creation, from the cosmic – as this has a stellar/lunar appearance –Continue reading “Studio Shangri-La Mixed Media @ Bogosplit, Copley Place”

Fabricate::Recreate — Mixed Media In The Studio

My latest mixed media in progress is titled “Fabricate::Recreate.” It’s a large 6’x3’x2” double repurposed, terraced canvas. The work is about the enjoyment and open-endedness of creation, how one thing or material can become another and keep on morphing. And everything has an underlying and even overlying fabric. The title also refers to the re-cyclicalContinue reading “Fabricate::Recreate — Mixed Media In The Studio”

Studio Shangri-La 🌺 ⚡️ ELECTRIC FLORAL ⚡️🌺 + Shop Update

These bright electric floral pieces appear in different sections on the Portfolio, with more waiting in the wings, and are influenced as much by electronics as by nature. Other bright straight on floral shots are also available, in addition to the geometric art deco style. The art deco influenced style also works great on fabric.Continue reading “Studio Shangri-La 🌺 ⚡️ ELECTRIC FLORAL ⚡️🌺 + Shop Update”