Nine years later, Shilo Ratner reflects on her fall 2017 artist residency at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art (ECOCA) in New Haven — three months that shaped the geometric abstract work she creates today.
Discover how to commission a custom original painting by Shilo Ratner. Tailor-made geometric abstract art created specifically for your space, colors, and vision.
The question I get asked most often isn’t about color or style — it’s about size. Here’s how I think about scale, and what I tell collectors who aren’t sure where to start.
Shilo Ratner was awarded the Weiss Sisters Prize at the 116th New Haven Paint and Clay Club Juried Exhibition for the original painting Leisure, a 36x36 inch work in the Bay Area Figurative style, juried by Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Director Richard Klein.
Original art doesn't have to mean a major investment. A guide to starting a collection with small-format works, collages, and prints, with honest advice on what to look for and why size doesn't determine significance.
Large-scale public art installation: Pockets Filled With Hope, a 5x10ft geometric abstract painting by Shilo Ratner, installed at Southern Connecticut State University School of Business.
One of my artworks was selected for Women’s Rights: An Artist’s Perspective, an online juried exhibition by UniteWomen.org. In today’s political climate, the parallels are impossible to ignore — and the importance of platforms for women artists has never felt more urgent.
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.
Shilo Ratner joins Kelly Taylor Interior Design and Candita Clayton Gallery as a speaking artist at Design Week Rhode Island, discussing how original geometric abstract art transforms interior spaces.
Traces of Stillness is a contemplative 6×6 inch collage series by Shilo Ratner exploring quiet mountain landscapes through minimal form, layered paper, and subtle geometry. Original works on paper available now.
Explore the quiet luxury of slowing down. As both artist and collector, I share how abstract landscape art creates visual pauses that invite presence, breath, and mindful living.
Daily Nutmeg writer Kathy Leonard Czepiel reviews Shilo Ratner's 2020 solo exhibition at DaSilva Gallery, exploring how her geometric abstract paintings use color, shape, and repetition to create calm, meditative visions in chaotic times.
Shilo Ratner reflects on the opening reception for the 2012 National Juried Exhibition at First Street Gallery in New York, juried by Dore Ashton — a celebration of contemporary fine art and creative community.
Artist Shilo Ratner's climate change-inspired painting Arctic Lands was selected by Guggenheim Curator David Max Horowitz for the Greenwich Art Society's 106th Annual Open Exhibition.
How studying Josef Albers' color theory, twice and in two different academic contexts, permanently changed the way I see, build, and teach color.