Art Exhibit Debut and Book Signing - Anita Shaw
Saturday, November 16th at 3pm
Unicorn Books and Gifts
738 Main Street, Ramona, CA 92065
Shaw's "folk art" series incorporates the yearning for a simpler time and place. Nostalgia is now becoming more popular and engages the imagination of people of all ages. The simplicity of the past is the crux of this Folk Art series - emphasizing everyday country life. Color and line are used to express basic emotions and connections between subjects, whether people, animals or everyday objects. Shaw remarks, "These paintings express my vision of "shared" basic experiences and relationships, which have remained unchanged even as society modernizes. They express the nostalgia of my childhood imaginings
and hopes of what life and people should be. It is both a naïve view of life, and yet a sophisticated re-imagining of what could be in an ideal world. We all carry within us our own utopia."
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Anita Shaw was born and raised in NYC and is now a California resident, after having lived in both Florida and Massachusetts. A self- taught artist, she also paints in acrylics and oils. Winning many awards, Shaw has exhibited in museums, universities, government buildings, airports, performing art centers, art galleries and festivals in various states. Her paintings are now in private collections worldwide and she has been interviewed on radio and TV.
