Alake Shilling

Visiting Artist Lectures

Alake Shilling

01/30/18

Please join jus for a lecture with Oxbow Alumni Artist Alake Shilling (OS22).

Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 7:00 — 8:30pm
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA

Artist Biography

Alake Shilling's bubblegum pop aesthetic and curious storytelling fuse to create dynamic ceramics and canvases of otherworldly abstraction and intrigue. Wrought with dark humor and stupefying detail, she guides her viewer through naturalistic scenes of cartoonish wild fauna and other symbols. With an aimless quality of expansion, she elicits a sense of longing in her work - for the crevices in our minds still unbound by adulthood. Her process starts by building up texture on a surface and then by pouring paints and other materials in select areas. She then inserts images into the remaining space, bringing the canvas to life. Shilling is an artist living and working in Los Angeles.

At Oxbow, the eye and the hand are inseparable from the mind and because their peers are also artists, students adopt fresh attitudes toward their work.

— Charles Altieri, Rachel Anderson Stageberg Chair, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

Our daughter graduated summa cum laude from NYU with a double major in Studio Art and Art History. She is now working for Calvin Klein. She is contemplating getting a law degree and pursuing a career repatriating art objects. She still keeps in touch with several of her Oxbow classmates and they have regular reunions in Manhattan... I would say that Oxbow was the best semester that any of my four children spent in their cumulative 16 years of high school. Our daughter was the right kid, and for the right kid you do a wonderful job. You changed her life. Thank you.

— John Powley, Parent

I learned to drop all previous assumptions I had about people because I had never met anyone like the other students at Oxbow. For the first time, my peers and their insightful thinking inspired me. For example, during the ‘Einstein’s Dreams’ presentations, I kept looking around the room thinking, I can’t believe all of these students are talking the way I think.

— Sara DeLong, Spring 2010

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