Michael Shelby Edwards
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Artist and Educator |
| Location | Seattle, WA, United States |
| Introduction | Michael Shelby Edwards is an American artist who works in oil paint, a variety of dry media, and ink. Recalled perennially to the human form and centered on portraiture, she incorporates aspects of her own body as well as likenesses of friends and acquaintances into her work. Drawing inspiration from the western intellectual tradition, mythology, folklore and sacred art, she combines naturalistic observation with invented forms, fusing together cultural and personal aspects of memory, myth, perception and dream.
To view the work, please visit: www.michaeledwardsart.com |
| Interests | art, religion, Catholic Christianity, theology, philosophy, aesthetics, literature, poetry, communication, pedagogy, politics, ethics, society/culture, music, history |
| Favorite movies | Amadeus, The Princess Bride, The Labyrinth, The Philadelphia Story, It Happened One Night, The Last of the Mohicans, Karol: the Man Who Became Pope, The Passion of the Christ |
| Favorite music | electronic, old school hip-hop, soul, blues, jazz, classical, folk/early music |
| Favorite books | The Intellectual Life, The Power and the Glory, Til We Have Faces, Dante's Inferno, The Brothers Karamozov, Arnheim's Art and Visual Perception, Love and Responsibility, The Summa Theologica, Coppleston's History of Philosophy, The New American Bible, The Catechism of the Catholic Church, The Language of Drawing, The Art of Arts, Drawing: Space, Form and Expression |