Sheila (Katja) Smith

She/Her

Katja's oil paintings narrate through biomorphic and suggestive imagery experiences of females through pictorial metaphors focusing thematically on the consciousness of distress, trauma, abuse, and neglect. Her work acts as a metaphor for the abusive and unstable ways that women are "constructed" as subjects in our society. To address these issues she customizes articulative dolls that serve as her subjects that she processes through a series of deconstruction and reconstruction, constructing herself in the process. Her paintings resonate persecution, repression, violence, neglect and ostracism through colorfully vivid, and pictorially symbolically rich, surreal figurative landscapes.

Visual Arts

Member since 2023.