Shaina’s work explores the intersection of the seen and unseen world through a personal and collective lens. She references layered histories of land, ritual, and sacred spaces as an inquiry into the original signifiers underlying them. Through painting, drawing, and sculpture, Shaina’s work seeks to weave narratives across time, space, and culture around the question of origin and the afterlife. Birth, death, portals, spirits, landscapes, dreamscapes, and relics are recurring themes, eliciting an invitation into an experience of non-ordinary reality and to memories of self that pre-date the body.


Bio
Shaina Rico is an artist living in Austin, TX and working in Austin and the Adirondacks, NY. She received a BFA in sculpture from New York University in 2011 and works in oil paint, ceramics, and mixed media sculpture. Her interest in spirituality, ritual, and the world of the unseen led her to work for a time as a birth doula and herbalist. She has studied and practiced a variety of spiritual healing modalities across several lineages and continues to investigate the threads of Life and Death that unite the human experience.