Pintura da artista de Miami Sheila Fraga. Uma obra de grandes dimensões. Com a técnica de acrílico, resina, grafite s/ tela tem as dimensões de 195X104 Cm e é datado de 2004.

My artwork is created by the need to express what I live, feel and think through artistic language. I use the self-portrait and the human figure, especially the feminine image as a point of departure, in a provocative and ironic way. I look at some passages in the history of art, such as angels and Venus and the influence of my cultural origins. My purposes are to express critically and creatively my vision of society, to make the audience think through a work aesthetically beautiful but profound in its content.
Intuition is my driving force in choosing a theme. I use Drawing and Painting as a
working tool. I take advantage of the use of multiple techniques such as oil, watercolor, acrylic, mixed media, cut-out, textile art, ink, markers, pastel, colored pencils, charcoal and collage to experiment different textures and three-dimensional effects.
I work with selected photographic references from the internet and the media. As well as my self-appropriation of previous paintings, that I intervene with fragments cut, sewn and glued on other pieces, incorporating more pictorial details to achieve the great finale.
My current work is more focused on the nude in public spaces, with the mastery
of color and textures between the edges of abstraction and figuration. My life
experience is to believe in what I do. With this I intend to reach my recognition as a visual artist.

DONATIONS
2008 Hope, artwork donated to the Learning Link Foundation for the Auction for
the benefit of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Fragile X
Syndrome, April, Koubek Mansion and Garden, Miami, FL, USA
2001 Hombres con Bueyes, artwork donated to the campaign “Marathon of
Hoping, fight against cancer” sponsored of the Terry Fox Foundation, Jan,
Embassy of Canada in Cuba, Havana, Cuba

AWARDS
2002 Watercolors, Finalist Artist, Watercolor Contest, Domingo Ravenet Gallery,
Havana, Cuba
2001 Mother feeling, painting awarded the Grand Prize, event Flora 2011:
Homage to Rene Portocarrero, Marianao, Havana, Cuba

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
CUBA Natural History Museum, Old Havana
School of Visual Arts San Alejandro, Havana
ITALY St. Paul Episcopal Cathedral, Rome