# Shelli Langdale

> Oil paintings of astronauts, horses, and figures exploring identity, loss, and transformation. Studio in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

## About

- [About](https://oustcat.com/about): Shelli Langdale's background, including her shift from NASA network engineering to full-time oil painting, and the themes of identity and transformation that drive her work.
- [Contact](https://oustcat.com/contact): Inquiries about commissions, available work, and gallery representation.
- [Subscribe](https://oustcat.com/subscribe): Dispatches from the Liminal Bathroom, a newsletter combining painting documentation with studio reflections.

## Series

- [Dissolution](https://oustcat.com/series/dissolution): A series centered on solo exhibit about grief and finding meaning in loss after the death of her horse, Ziggy.
- [Corner of Your Love Song](https://oustcat.com/series/corner-of-your-love-song): Intimate paintings on memory, tenderness, and quiet attention.
- [Dissolution Exhibit](https://oustcat.com/exhibit/dissolution): The Dissolution series presented as a single curated exhibition about grief and finding meaning in loss.

## Categories

- [Curated](https://oustcat.com/category/curated): Featured paintings selected from across active series.
- [Horses](https://oustcat.com/category/horses): Equine paintings, including swimming horses, jellyfish pairings, and barn studies.
- [Small Works](https://oustcat.com/category/small): Smaller intimate paintings at accessible price points.

## Featured Paintings

- [Self-Portrait in Braces](https://oustcat.com/product/self-portrait-in-braces): Oil and acrylic on Yupo paper, a female astronaut with braces embedded in her helmet visor. Shortlisted for the 2025 International Biennial Portrait Competition and exhibited at Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art.
- [Attrition](https://oustcat.com/product/attrition): Oil and acrylic on Yupo paper, watchful cats beneath looming spaceships, the ordinary set against the extraordinary.
- [Dissolution](https://oustcat.com/product/dissolution): Oil on gallery canvas, 40 x 30 x 1.5 inches, a figure gazing directly at the viewer, title work of the Dissolution series.
- [Astronaut Contemplative](https://oustcat.com/product/astronaut-contemplative): Acrylic on Yupo paper, 6 x 15 inches, an astronaut figure in stillness.
- [The Smell of Snow](https://oustcat.com/product/the-smell-of-snow): Oil and cold wax on gallery panel, 8 x 10 x 1.5 inches, an atmospheric figure painting on memory and place.
- [Stardust](https://oustcat.com/product/stardust): Oil on gallery panel, cosmic transience and human connection in the space-explorer series.
- [Horse with Jellyfish](https://oustcat.com/product/horse-with-jellyfish): Oil on gallery panel, 8 x 10 x 1.5 inches, an equine painting blending the terrestrial and the oceanic.

## Key Facts

- Studio based in Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Background: BS in Computer Science, former NASA network engineer
- Mediums: oil on canvas and panel, oil and acrylic on Yupo paper, oil with cold wax on panel
- Gallery representation: Abend Gallery (Denver), Blue Gallery (Kansas City)
- Also available through: Artsy, 1stDibs
- Painting price range: $1,125 to $25,530
- Newsletter: Dispatches from the Liminal Bathroom
- Subjects: astronauts and space explorers, horses, intimate figures, small works
- Recognition: Self-Portrait in Braces shortlisted for the 2025 International Biennial Portrait Competition, exhibited at Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art

## Contact

- Website: https://oustcat.com
- Inquiries: https://oustcat.com/contact
- Newsletter: https://oustcat.com/subscribe