Izabella Shealy

Studio #33

Izabella Shealy is a painter based in Brooklyn, NY with a studio in Saugerties, NY, working primarily in oil on wood panel, found objects, and canvas.

Shealy’s career in renewable energy informs her practice, with utility infrastructure, sparks of wildfire, parched yellow landscapes, cars, and freeways frequently appearing in her work.

The pink light of Los Angeles and the vast landscapes of Utah and Colorado from Shealy’s childhood in the American West provide reference points for her work. Her abstracted landscape paintings pull from formative experiences flying between Utah and California where water and human imprint on the land are reflected in shades of ochre, cadmium yellow, and blue. Her process often involves building up layered surfaces of paint on wood, resulting in pigment that bleeds through wood grain as well and brushstrokes that sit on top of the wood’s impervious surface.

Shealy is self-taught and has not publicly exhibited her work.

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