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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shilo Ratner's work selected for Best in Show at Aedra Fine Arts Fortune Favors Exhibition. Curator Michael Hanna reviews her geometric abstract paintings, describing them as "poetic" with "angular beauty and grace."
Reflections on the Ruth Asawa Retrospective at MoMA in NYC. Exploring her intricate wire sculptures, dedication through adversity, and lessons in artistic experimentation that inspire my geometric abstract practice.
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.
There's a moment in the studio when a painting stops needing you. Shilo Ratner reflects on what makes a painting feel emotionally alive, from intuitive color choices and visible layers to the tension between imperfection and completion.
A reflection on meeting Theophilus Brown after being selected for the Art Space 712 portrait exhibition in San Francisco.
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.
I still remember the first painting I bought for myself. I was in my early 20s, standing in a small gallery, going back and forth on whether I should do it.
It felt like a big deal, because it was.
I was excited, but also nervous about spending the money. I didn't fully understand yet what it meant to live with a piece of original art, only that I wanted my apartment to feel more like mine, more considered, more complete.
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.
Held in geometry. A mountain coast at the edge of day.
There is a particular kind of light that seems to slow everything down.
It happens late in the afternoon, when the sun begins to drop and the landscape changes. Mountains turn ochre and sienna. Water becomes a darker, quieter blue. The edges of the landscape begin to soften, even as the forms themselves become more defined.
That feeling was at the center of Golden Coast, a new 40 × 40 original painting and one of the most layered works I have created in this series.
A reflection on the Georgia O'Keeffe traveling exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, and what her wit, obsession, and lifelong drive to create continue to mean to my practice as a painter.
Art is connection. Discover the creative philosophy behind minimalist landscape paintings that transform nature's impressions into expansive, meditative works designed to bring quiet sophistication and grounding to your space.