An Exhibition of Paintings by Sherrie Wolf Reception: Thurs. May 22nd, 2008 between 5:30pm - 8:30pm The Gordon Woodside / John Braseth Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Sherrie Wolf. "I have always been a still-life painter. My images openly play with the fact that art is artifice. In recent years, I have arranged objects in front of excerpts from old master paintings. Earlier in my career, while imitating 19th century American Trompe l'oil and 17th century Dutch still-life traditions in subject matter and formal elements of composition, I explored contrived or discovered relationships between seemingly unrelated objects. Among the subject matter, there would be an open book or a card portraying an image from a historical painting. In time, these excerpts became more prominent, and eventually I filled the entire background with a quotation from an old master painting. This connected me to a history of reinterpretation and artistic borrowing prevalent among artists. My images have evolved from a love of art history and a desire to present multiple levels of expression to my viewer." --Sherrie Wolf For more on Sherrie Wolf, click here.

Group Exhibition Also on display are new and recently acquired works by Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, William Cumming, Jeff Day, Dennis Evans, Morris Graves, Paul Horiuchi, William Ivey, Alden Mason, Neil Meitzler, Mark Tobey, and Margaret Tomkins. And highlighting the works of Katherine Ace, Jesse Edwards, Paul Havas, Nancy Mee, Penny Mulligan, Jared Rue, and Michael Stasinos.