Sherrie Wolf (b. 1952) is a master of lyrical form and color. Her still life paintings evolve out of her passion for arranging objects. She delights in the objects themselves, as well as the spaces between and within the objects. She marvels at their beauty, and she enjoys making visual and conceptual associations between objects in a form of viewable alliteration. The compositions are theatrical, as if the setting is a stage on which drama is being performed.

“Early in my college art education, I was lightning-struck by a retrospective in San Francisco of Georgia O’Keeffe paintings. Her huge, boldly beautiful still-life images inspired my belief in a life as a successful woman painter. Around then, historians began revealing many women artists that had been overlooked throughout history…There could be concern that beautiful, large-scale images of tea cups, tulips and other “feminine identified objects” might cast me as a dilettante who paints pretty pictures. I am undaunted by this, with O’Keeffe at my back.”

Wolf was born in Portland, Oregon, where she resides and paints today. She received a BFA in painting at the Museum Art School (now Pacific Northwest College of Art) and went on to study at the Chelsea College of Art in London, where she earned a Master of Arts degree in printmaking.