Artist Sherri Silverman was Artist in Residence at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in 2001, both creating and displaying art during museum hours. She was awarded a Cambridge Oakland Artist Program Residency for 2017-2018. Her artwork is in the book 100 Artists of the Southwest; in private, public, and corporate collections nationwide, including the New Mexico Capitol Art Collection; and has been in three museum group shows.

Sherri has an art history doctorate with specialties in Creativity, Art, & the Sacred and Application of Asian Concepts. Over 45 years of meditation practice informs her energy and approach to art.

"My personal forms of expression convey my response to the essence of nature and consciousness in my paintings. There is a long tradition in Asia of this approach to art-making, both in India and China. This shows up in how I draw flowers, mountains, and other natural forms and in how my brush moves, including in my non-representational work. Energy, essence, emotion translate my inner experience.

"When it comes to recognizable imagery, flowers and plants seem to be my thing. I paint them a lot, and their ideograms are my favorite Chinese calligraphy exercises.

Sherri is mainly self-taught as a studio artist. In 2015, she was awarded the Tip Coleman Scholarship for four days of intensive study at Judith Kruger's Nihonga & Beyond Workshop in Japanese Mineral Pigment Painting.

Her first memory is of insisting when she was four years old that prospective buyers of her family's Atlanta house see the paintings she had done in her bedroom closet. Years later, a classmate reminisced about her memory of how Sherri bore down hard with her red crayon when she was five.

Sherri's interest in creating art revived when she took watercolor and color/design courses at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and Huron Project in Cambridge, MA in the 1970s, leading to her first gallery representation in Harvard Square at Botolph Gallery.

In 1985 while living in Santa Barbara, she pulled out her pastels set. Two pastel paintings emerged that an artist friend saw and responded to by saying, "Sherri, if you really wanted to, you could be an artist." That made Sherri light up and was a major turning point in her life.

After Sherri moved to Santa Fe in 1986, a Boston art consultant asked her to send slides and then paintings, resulting in interest from Fidelity Investment's corporate curator. The art consultant called: "I have to tell you what happened. Your crate arrived Friday afternoon. We opened it Saturday morning with a houseguest who got tears in her eyes and said, 'I have to have these!' The houseguest bought two, my husband and I grabbed the third one, and there was nothing left for Fidelity. The Fidelity curator was not angry but was really upset, so send more work!" Fidelity's curator chose a piece for her own office.

In 1998 Sherri's work was presented to the New Mexico Capitol Art Collection board by a board member and the curator. Out of thirteen potential artists, one other squeaked in and Sherri's work was accepted by a unanimous vote of the board. All the hands went up when asked if her work should be in the collection. The curator then pointed to the first of five pieces she had selected for possible inclusion, and again all the hands went up. Matthew #15 was installed in a silverleaf frame with a silk mat and placed on permanent display outside the Senate chambers, where it is hopefully enlightening New Mexico legislators.

After decades in Santa Fe, Sherri now lives and works in Marin County, California.
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