Sheri Rush is a Chicago-based painter whose practice includes photography and collage. Rush holds a BFA from Texas Christian University and an MFA from the University of Chicago.
Recent exhibitions include the Rockford Art Museum, Freeport Art Museum, Ralph Arnold Gallery, The Art Center Highland Park, Arc Gallery, Hofheimer Gallery, James Baird Gallery in Newfoundland, solo shows at Hyde Park Art Center, Evanston Art Center, and Epiphany Center for the Arts. Recent awards include a fully funded residency to the Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland and a grant from the Illinois Art Council Agency.
Rush’s work responds to the current world by considering the intersection of personal history, landscape, and recollection. She emphasizes immersion and physical impact by using abstraction to deconstruct landscape imagery depicting a specific place to move the painting to a different realm.
Statement
My work is landscape based. I am passionate about the vastness of the natural world and our changing relationship with our environment. I am equally enthusiastic about an evolving painting process that establishes a painterly language through mark making and pushing paint while exploring scale.
My work represents a visceral experience in nature, while my source materials document and archive a physical journey. I emphasize immersion and physical impact by using abstraction to deconstruct landscape imagery depicting a specific place to move the painting to a different realm.
I begin my process by taking cell phone pictures through the windows of moving cars, trains, and buses and from an immersive hiking view. Each journey is a confrontation of the natural world through an emotional lens, facilitating my painting process.
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