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Angelia Pickett is an emerging artist from New York City, New York. Originally from Glasgow, Kentucky, Angelia began to study art as child, taking instruction in drawing and animation from a local university. Inspired by childhood excursions to the fashion markets of New York, and frequent visits to well-known museums and galleries, Angelia began to take an interest in painting. By recreating the movements of the models and internalizing the images of the masterpieces viewed, a permanent vision was etched into her mind. This vision commenced a dedication and passion to self-taught painting instruction.

Concurrently, it became apparent that Angelia possessed the abilities to excel in science, astronomy, and mathematics. Her penchant and success in these subjects led her to a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kentucky, and graduate studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University.

Her scientific mind and daily explorations into mathematical calculation and design shifted her artistic focus to the analytical works of Picasso, Braque, Miro, and others. Drawing inspiration from the Fauvists, Cubists, and Surrealists, Angelia began to transform her artistic subjects into a decomposition of rudimentary shapes and colors, striving to recreate a new entity, and exposing the simplistic fundamental truths of human nature and the natural world.

Angelia’s work as an Aerospace Engineer inspired her self-described art form of mechanical abstraction. Through the deconstruction of complex ideas, simplification, and transformation of elaborate phenomena into bold abstract statements, she opens the viewer’s eyes into a world of intricate technicalities.

contact the artist: angelia@angeliapickett.com