Mechele Shoneman is a self-taught, contemporary artist in Atlanta who focuses primarily on portraiture and concrete sculpture. Her multi-disciplinary work addresses topical issues. Using a vibrant color palette, she takes an intuitive approach to her portraits, frequently blending a variety of techniques. Her rough-hewn concrete sculptures focus on recent planetary discoveries that have transformed how we view the cosmos.

Her work has recently  been juried into the Portrait Society of Atlanta, Solomon Gallery in Spartanburg, SC, Academy Center of the Arts and Crossroads Art Center in VA, Lamar Dodd Art Center in LaGrange, GA, ArtFields in SC, Monmouth Museum and many ChaShaMa venues in NJ, El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 in New York, NY.