Shilo Ratner Art Studio & Exhibition Updates

A look at how contemporary landscape painting is shifting in response to climate change, and why abstraction is becoming a critical language for it.

I've been studying the work of Raimonds Staprans for years. His paintings are impossible to ignore,  saturated, structured, and alive with a tension that keeps you looking. 

That Time of Night is a new geometric abstract diptych, 20 x 10 inches, inspired by the transitional light of dusk. Each panel works as a standalone composition; together they form a continuous vista.

A personal reflection on the Hilma af Klint exhibition at the Guggenheim — on the presence of her abstract paintings, the architecture of one of the world’s great museums, and what her conviction as an artist means to my own practice.

Richard Diebenkorn's Notes to Myself, found among his papers after his death in 1993, remain some of the most honest and useful words ever written about the creative process in abstract painting. Here's what they mean to my practice.

Nature has an incredible way of grounding us — and that influence is central to my landscape-inspired artwork. Rather than painting literal scenes, my work abstracts natural forms into simplified shapes and layered compositions. 

Highlights from the opening reception of Perceptual Consciousness solo exhibition at Claire Carino Contemporary in Boston. View photos from the show featuring geometric abstract paintings.

A reflection on Hidden Depth, my May 2019 solo exhibition at Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto, and what geometric abstraction, constraint, and sustained looking meant to my practice at the time.