Shami Kanekar

UPCOMING SHOWS

Shami has a painting in the Utah Watercolor Society's 2-Star Member Show at the 16th Street Gallery in Salt Lake City, through the 20th of March.Shami also plans to be at Salt Lake City's Avenue's Street Fair in September of 2004.

Shami will be exhibiting her paintings and drawings at Pioneer Theater's Loge Gallery in Salt Lake City, March 23- April 10th, 2005 during the staging of the play Amadeus at the theater.

SALES

Shami has sold several paintings and drawings over the years. Meditation and Floral #4 were sold at Oasis Cafe in October of 2002. Several Gardener's Dream Series and Yin Series pieces have been sold since their conception in 1996 and early 2003 respectively. Shami's elephants have been particularly popular: She has sold several of both the "Elephants on My Mind" series and my series of elephant pen drawings, and have been commissioned to make elephant drawings to buyers' specifications. Shami has also been commissioned to design wedding invitations. and baby announcements (Maya!).

OTHER ARTISTIC ENDEAVOURS

Shami is also an avid potter. She has a pottery studio in her home and primarily makes wheel-thrown pots. Mugs and bowls are some of her favorite things to create! She particularly loves carving her pots with the stylized patterns she uses in her drawings and paintings. Though she has yet to create pots with elephants on them!

Shami also makes beaded jewelry. She collects gemstone, glass, silver, copper and all kinds of other types of beads from all over the world, and creates unique pieces of jewelry from them. She also makes wirework jewelry from hand-twisted metal creations of silver or copper. As in her paintings and pottery, color plays an important role in her jewelry. Her jewelry ranges from colorful chunky ethnic designs to extremely delicate pieces. Shami designs unique creations reminiscent of art from the Far East, Egypt and Africa.

HONORS

Shami has won an Award of Excellence for her painting "Dreams of Summer" at the Utah Watercolor Society's 2002 Spring Show. Shami has also had several paintings juried into every UWS exhibit since she joined the society in April 2002. She was nominated to be on the Utah Watercolor society board in Fall of 2002 as assistant to the Shows Person, and currently functions as Public Relations person for the society.