SHERRI WOLF :BAROQUE SENSIBILITIES

I WAS VISITING COUSINS IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA.  THEY KNOW MY LOVE FOR MUSEUMS AND COLOR SO WE WENT TO VISIT THE LONG BEACH MUSEUM WHERE A FELL IN LOVE WITH PHOTOREALIST PAINTER SHERRIE WOLF…. HER COLOR DEPTH IN INCREDIBLE.  I FELT LIKE I WAS IN EACH PAINTING I LOOKED AT.  I LOVE COLOR AND FLOWERS HER WORK SUNG TO ME.  I HOPE IT DOES THE SAME FOR YOU

GAINSBOROGHS BLUE BOY POWDERED WIGS AND GRAPES Paintings					t
I have always been a still-life painter. My images openly play with the fact that art is artifice. In recent years, I have arranged objects in front of excerpts from old master paintings. Earlier in my career, while imitating 19th century American Trompe l’oil and 17th century Dutch still-life traditions in subject matter and formal elements of composition, I explored contrived or discovered relationships between seemingly unrelated objects. Mirrors or other formal objects often reflected the contemporary clutter of my studio. Light, shadow and three-dimensional spatial relationships played important roles, and I often used nontraditional perspectives, such as looking straight down on the still life arrangement. Among the subject matter, there would be an open book or a card portraying an image from a historical painting. In time, these excerpts became more prominent, and eventually I filled the entire background with a quotation from an old master painting. This connected me to a history of reinterpretation and artistic borrowing prevalent among artists. My images have evolved from a love of art history and a desire to present multiple levels of expression to my viewer.