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SHERRIE WOLF
Dahlias with the Concert
Counterpoint
Tulips with Venus
Tulips with Storm
Dahlias with Europa
Tulips with Bird Concert
Tulips with Swan
Arrangment of Objects
Arrangement with River Landscape
Sealife
Artist Portrait
Peonies After Stubbs
Sealife, Birds and Shells
Rose in a Glass with Dahlias
Tulips and Melon
Tulips with Spainiel
Tulips with Roe Deer
Birds of a Feather
Backstage
Feast
Tulips and Crane
Vase with Autumn on the Hudson
Birds with Domes of Yosemite
Cacophony
Parrot Tulips with Rooster
Tulips with Concert of Birds
Diane, Mistress of the Hunt
Dog and Duck
Tulips with Paroquets
Tulips with Leopard
Blackbuck with Peaches
Cherries with Pastoral Women
Bowl of Cherries with Musicians
Yellow Tulip and Pear
Still Life with California Spring
Dahlias Among Sierra Nevadas
Parrot Tulips
Still Life with Mount Corcoran
Three Tulips in Green Vase
White and Yellow Tulips
Girl with Knitting
Tulips Over Harlem Bleaching Grounds
Poppies with the Andes
Tulips with Rocky Mountain Storm
Tulips with the Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
Still Life with Footbridge
Yellow Tulip with Vig?e-Le Brun
Tulips at Yosemite after Bierstadt
Floral Arrangement After Bierstadt
Still Life with Sabine Women After David
Peonies After Ruisdael
Parrot Tulips After Bierstadt
Lilies at Catskill Creek
Tulip with Cows
Yellow Tulips at Narni
Iris and Plums with Cottage and Mountains
Iris and Peach
Rhododendron After Zocchi
Tulip After Zocchi
Yellow Tulips After Constable
Parrot Tulips After Bierstadt
White Tulips
Flower Arrangement at Yellowstone
Still Life
Still Life After Stubbs #2
Still Life After Vernet
Lilies After Bouguereau
Still Life After Bonheur
Dutch Still Life
Tulips and Tangerine
Floral Still Life
The Surprise
Floral Still Life
SHERRIE WOLF
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.
Art stretches us by being several things at once. It can be a ripe fruit ready to fall off the canvas onto the floor, but also, when viewed closely, a collection of brush strokes on a flat surface. The landscape that I place in the background is a flat surface but simultaneously a space in which the still-life objects reside. The objects are ordinary, but simultaneously monumental by virtue of their relationship to the majestic landscape in the background. Small scale animals and figures in the landscape are potent reminders of time, scale and our relationship to the natural environment. A vase of flowers before a dramatic deep space makes a comment by juxtaposing the mundane with the sublime, and also finds a potent emotional interaction that enhances some aspect of a past painter’s message. These dualities give me a rich palate for exploration. I set up my arrangements for color and formal compositional elements as well as for emotional and conceptual content. Content often derives from interactions that are discovered by trial and experiment. I enjoy finding resonance that did not at first occur to me.
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