For as long as artist Jamie Pettis has been painting, she has focused primarily on portraiture. But as her forthcoming exhibit at DNA Galleries, Growing Cities, demonstrates, Pettis has become as interested in the aesthetics of metropolitan skylines as she is in the contours of her subjects’ faces.
“Recently, it was suggested to me to bring something else into my work, rather than just faces,” she said. “So my upcoming show is an incorporation of city skylines with those faces.”
Despite residing in another state, Pettis, who is Holdenville-born and Phoenix-based, said her mind keeps wandering back to Oklahoma.