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BFA Painting and Drawing from California State University Long Beach
Email - sheaneedsyoga@gmail.com
Drawing upon long held interests in physics and the supernatural, Vititow’s artwork investigates
the inherent and unending mysteries embedded in the nature of consciousness. Building up
lush layers of thick paint in her ongoing Plaid series, she translates the lushness of human life
literally, caking materials onto her substrate until the painting appears as a living, growing being
in and unto itself. At times Vititow seems to be pushing the very boundaries of what a canvas
can hold, such as with Valentine’s Day (2017), in which chunky streams of red, yellow and black
intertwine across the painting’s surface, so thick as to almost fall off. At others, Vititow
displays a more restrained hand, as in her A.I. series (2019 -), in which she layers thin coats of
paint to form traditional plaid patterns, letting the light which shines through and off the
painting’s surface take center stage.
Throughout her practice Vititow uses cultural references to draw the viewer closer to the
meanings embedded in her work. The use of chains in her 2019 solo exhibition Pure
Imagination at Anandamide Long Beach, for instance, highlights her interest in the inter-
connectedness of all things. Her use of multi-colored “rainbow” flames in her recent Flame
series, also present in the exhibition, references the Tibetan rainbow philosophy of
dematerialization into light. Dancing across the canvas these flames both mimic the chains
repetitive nature in terms of its shape — link upon link, flame upon flame — and its sense of
continuity, with each flame representing a separate entity that comes from the same source.
Another reference comes in the form of painted replicas of puffy paint stickers, which give off a
child-like, nostalgic feeling, reminiscent of a time in life when imagination and fantasy are given
requisite space to breathe. Vititow sprinkles these sticker replicas across her practice — they
can as easily appear in a plaid painting as they can a figurative pencil drawing — sometimes
combining two or more stickers to create open narratives within the work. Says Vititow, “all
these symbols add up to create the viewers holographic experience where each of those little
realities of each sticker's identity can morph into a new reality where they all combine and tell a
story not just laterally but in all directions.” In these open narratives Vititow achieves what is
essentially the crux of her practice, creating not a painting, but a place in which she uses
painting to give her viewer an opportunity to experience a sense of possibility that needs no
specific resolve, just an openness to the ever-expanding chain of reality.
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dietWarhol, Group Exhibition, La La Land Gallery, Los Angeles. August 2022.
Highbeams, Manual History Projects, Torrance Art Museum, July 2021.
Hygiene & Other Surplus, Group Exhibition, Gallery ALSO, Los Angeles. November 2019.
The Violence Show, Group Exhibition, O’ Project Space, Los Angeles. July, 2019.
LA Zine Fest, Santa Monica. May 2019.
Kobe Design University, Group Exhibition.
Outback Art House, Marina Del Rey ArtSea Art Fair. May 2019.
Independent Art Book Fair, Grab Bag Studio, Los Angeles. April, 2019.
Pure Imagination, Solo Exhibition, Anandamide Long Beach. March 2019.
Spooky World Group Show, Leiminspace, Los Angeles. November 2018.
Here Now Art Mart, Grab Bag Studio, Here Now Los Angeles. January 2019.
Second Glimpses & Alternate Forms, Los Angeles. May 2018.
LA Zine Fest, Pasadena. May 2018.
Open Studios, Group Exhibition, Grab Bag Studio. Long Beach. February 2018.
Annual Auction, Tiger Strikes Asteroid LA. Los Angeles, December 2017.
Open Studios, Group Exhibition, Grab Bag Studio, Long Beach, CA. October 2017.
Long Beach Zine Fest, MoLAA, Long Beach, CA. August 2017.
Trust Fall, Group Exhibition, Gallery ALSO, Los Angeles. June 2017.
Listening Garden, Group Exhibition, Show + Tell Projects, Los Angeles, CA. January 2017.
Blossom, Group Exhibition, Welcome to Junior High, Los Angeles, CA. 2017.
Somewhere in LA, Little Tokyo Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA. 2016.
Holiday Auction, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA. December 2016.
Wet Silk, Group Exhibition, Non Plus Ultra, Los Angeles, CA, 2016.
Wet Silk, Group Exhibition, Basic Flowers, Los Angeles, CA. 2016
Open Studios, Group Exhibition, 4th Street Bridge, Los Angeles, 2015.
More upon request.