Sherrie Wolf
Installation View | May 2018
Installation View | May 2018
Installation View | May 2018
Installation View | May 2018
Installation View | May 2018
Installation View | May 2018
Installation View | May 2018
Installation View | May 2018
Installation View | May 2018
Installation View | May 2018
Installation View | May 2018
Installation View | May 2018
The Fork is Irrelevant
2018
oil on canvas
49 x 85.5 inches
Kitchen Matisse
2018
oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
Paris Still Life
2018
oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
Window by Creekside
2018
oil on canvas
48 x 60 inches
Still Life A History
2018
oil on canvas
45 x 60 inches
Inkwells
2018
oil on canvas
40 x 60 inches
French Market II
2018
oil on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Tulips Still Life with Figure
2018
oil on canvas
30 x 60 inches
Matisse Still Life
2018
oil on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Summer Dahlia
2018
oil on canvas
32 x 48 inches
Ace of Clubs
2018
oil on canvas
40 x 40 inches
Ten of Hearts
2018
oil on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Frida's Palette
2018
oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
Italian Plums
2018
oil on canvas
16 x 21 inches
Plums with Compote
2018
oil on canvas
16 x 21 inches
Plum and Peaches
2018
oil on canvas
16 x 21 inches
Peaches in Still Life
2018
oil on canvas
16 x 24 inches
Suttle Lake
2018
acrylic on yupo paper
27 x 32 inches framed
Black Butte/Suttle Lake
2018
acrylic on yupo paper
27 x 32 inches framed
Caldera
2018
acrylic on yupo paper
33 x 26.5 inches framed
For the month of May the Russo Lee Gallery is pleased to present Juxtapositions by Sherrie Wolf. In this exhibition, Wolf revisits some previous themes such as bountiful floral and fruit arrangements, museum postcards and art history books. But in Juxtapositions, she also stretches considerably into more unusual and highly demanding still life material. Whether it is French flea markets with countless irregular shapes and patina, or studio scenarios replete with jars of luscious pigments, Sherrie Wolf applies her signature mastery of lyrical form and color.
Wolf has dedicated her career to the revelation that art is artifice and magical in its illusions. Her practice of juxtaposing exactingly realistic still life painting with a variety of references from art history creates works that are kaleidoscopic in their impact. Cascades of lush drapery, riotous tulips, and fleshy, ripe fruit overflow to create paintings that are tactile, sumptuous and sensuous.
Painter Frank Stella said, “In great art all the relationships sparkle, radiating coherence.” In Sherrie Wolf’s still life paintings there is marvelous rendering of fruits, flowers, reflections in glass and copying of old masterworks, but the key element in her work is the musicality of the relationships among all the objects depicted—the loud, the quiet and the spaces between them. Wolf takes a genre with a 2,000 year history and keeps it fresh and new.