“Sheila Schwid began a new series of paintings in 2012 titled “Reflections on 14th Street” with paintings created from the photographs she took while riding the 14th Street crosstown bus. She intended only to focus on the busy New Yorkers going about their days, but what she saw was multidimensional, according to her artist statement: “There were reflections, and reflections of reflections. There were strange shapes, cutting off other strange shapes, blank shapes of solid colors, shapes of green leaves of trees I couldn’t see, smoky colors, smoky shapes. People’s heads would be interrupted with windows that looked into the sky or showed us far away traffic.”
– Women Artists of Westbeth by Sara Braun.
https://observer.com/2024/10/women-artists-westbeth-new-york-city/