Deliciosos Helados by Shiba Ward

Acrylic on panel, 10 x 7 inches

California miniaturist painter Shiba Ward makes works that mine the melancholy, heroism and contradiction of city life. In this painting Ward emphasizes the timelessness and loneliness of work through texture and simplicity. 

“Deliciosos Helados” is part of the Labor Arts exhibit Scenes of American Labor with thirty nine paintings that evoke the individual and physical experience of work. The entire series is housed at the Sullivan Goss Gallery in Santa Barbara, CA.