Shan Ogdemli • Art and ZO have so many complementary and synchronous creative nexuses, that working together, just naturally segued into an affiliation. We are honored to have Shan onboard as our Hollywood City Curator (where she currently has a studio) and we know this is just a beginning . . .
About Shan:
“I was born into a creative family in Berkeley, California in 1958 at the height of the beatnik movement. My Mom, an actress, musician, and artist, was the daughter of Sicilian immigrants and my Dad is an architect and inventor of Siberian Tatar heritage, born in Turkey and educated in Italy. My early life was full of turmoil and change as my Mom became very ill and our family packed up and moved to Bangkok, Thailand, where she eventually passed away from her illnesses. Soon after, my Dad met and married an adventurous German-born photographer who became my second Mom. Our family then moved again to Hong Kong and later to Hawaii where we settled and I finished high school.
I went on to attend Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, earning a BFA in Graphic Design with honors and a full scholarship.
My career path has seen much change and evolution, including the roles of graphic designer, illustrator, art director, creative director, licensed artist, and fine artist. Soon after graduation from college, I married Daniel Feldman, and together we founded Ogdemli Feldman Design which over the years grew to a staff of over 10 talented designers and illustrators working under my creative direction. We created logos, packaging, advertising, and catalogs for a variety of industries including children’s entertainment, software, fashion, sports, and music. Highlights of that time included creating logos, tickets, and program illustrations for several Super Bowls and creating a whole collection of fun stationery for Paper Moon Graphics. In 2000 we founded Designs by Shan and started licensing my illustrations onto thousands of products including home furnishings, giftware, stationery, apparel, fabrics, handbags, and cosmetic bags. In 2005 we teamed up with Lifestyle Licensing International to launch our jointly owned lifestyle fashion brand called Pampered Girls, which became an international phenomenon with several stores and boutiques in Japan and products available in many countries around the world.
Around 2010 we scaled down our design and art licensing business to just the 2 of us and moved the studio into our home in the Hollywood Hills, where I could begin to focus on creating my art. Throughout my career I had always painted and created abstract imagery of my visions of the unseen realms of existence. Finally now I am at a point in my life where I can fully focus on bringing my inner visions into physical reality.
