sfettingis's Profile

Bio

Combining humanistic interest with a love of design, my work draws from influences as far ranging as photographic portraiture, art deco design, modernist architecture and colorist ideas. I’m interested in discovering the backgrounds and harmonies in peoples’ lives; portraying individual characteristics through stylized representations. By using design as a loose metaphor for thought, and material as strata for being, my work expresses the beauty and contradictions of our complexities. My primary medium – cut acrylic – is clean, manufactured, and industrial. However, the patterns cut into it and the colors present stand in contrast to these qualities by individualizing the mass-produced material.

My work has lead to commissions, grants, public works and exhibits at such venues as Ai Gallery, Object + Thought Gallery Estudiotres and Bridge Art Fair, and media coverage from Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Reader, Conscious Choice, Art MoCo, Design Milk, Notcot and The Denver Egotist.

I studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, ultimately earning a BA in photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2000. Born and raised in Chicago by South American artists, I am currently living and working in sunny Denver, CO. 

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www.sfettingis.com

Female, Born on February 11

Favorite Materials

acrylics, plastics, films, aluminum, computers, lasers