Sherrie Gallerie
May 1 – June 19, 2021
Artist Statement:
In this show I have created a body of work using a “fused encaustic” technique which is built on my years of experience of working with hand cast crayons and the encaustic medium. I try to blur the lines of painting and sculpture, realism and abstraction, color and tone, to create works that will draw you into a textured and speckled colored surface while pushing you away to see the portraits of the mathematicians fused inside this surface.
This series is based on photographic portraits of well-known mathematicians of the 1900s’. My early background in physics and mathematics gave me the opportunity to learn about the amazing stories and personalities of many of these people that a large majority outside of the field have not heard about. My hope with this series was to pay homage to these brilliant people that have worked in the shadows of popular culture but are responsible for so many important technologies and innovations that we take for granted today.
