Sheila Elias Somewhere-Anywhere

Sheila Elias career spans some forty years. She has worked in Miami, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, and has exhibited her paintings, collages, sculptures, photographs and installations in museums and galleries around the world. Elias has knowingly and continually modified her eclectic style in the service of a concentrated vision and expansive spirit, one that embraces the world, criticizes it, and tries to make it better. In this way Elias effects a subtle critique of how we understand life, encouraging us toward a more active and positive engagement with current conditions and historical perspectives. While most art would have us think outside the box and reconsider ourselves and our world, Elias art shows us how dynamic and thrilling that reconsideration can be.Somewhere-Anywhere: Sheila Elias at Mid-Career surveys the evolution of Elias art and vision, tracing it through abstraction and figuration, object and performance, pop and expressionism, and often radical changes in scale, substance, and subject matter. With a foreword by distinguished New York artist-critic Robert Morgan, Somewhere-Anywhere features a history of Elias art by noted Los Angeles critic, curator, and historian Peter Frank, who has followed Elias work for almost three decades.Printed in full color with a glossy hard cover, Somewhere-Anywhere brims with the visual vitality that has pervaded Elias work from the start and ensured her popularity with art-world professionals and the general public alike.