Sherrie Wolf

Sherrie Wolf is an American photo-realistic painter and printmaker based in Portland, Oregon who has won multiple awards for her work. She has been described as "one of Portland's most prominent artists."

Early life and education Born in Portland in 1952, Wolf graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in Portland, Oregon where she studied under the printmaker Louis Bunce. She often uses historical art as the background to boldly colored still lives. Wolf was fascinated by the unintentional surrealism of Stubb's original painting, which placed a realistically portrayed exotic animal in a bucolic British landscape. Her use of the still-life was chosen for texture and color, rather than for narrative or symbolic reasons, and to "reinforce the illusion of a disquieting strangeness." Another example of Wolf's appropriation technique is found in the self-portrait she painted to commemorate her 60th birthday in 2012, a parody of Gustave Courbet's The Painter's Studio. Wolf placed herself in Coubert's position in the painting, and substituted other elements of the 1855 painting for their opposites (such as a cat replacing a dog, and a nude man replacing the female model in Coubert's original).

Until 1994, Wolf had her own printing press in her studio, where she produced etchings alongside her drawings and paintings. Since 1994, her prints have been produced with the fine-art printer Mark Mahaffey of Portland. While she also produces photogravure prints, Wolf prefers the range of color and tone possible with the aquatint technique.

Exhibitions Solo shows Transmissions, The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, Oregon Faces, The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, Oregon New Paintings, Arden Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Gordon Woodside / John Braseth Gallery, Seattle, Washington Counterpoint, The Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, Oregon Animal Life, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, California

Awards 2000 Oregon Artist Fellowship Award, Oregon Arts Commission 2001 Art About Agriculture, Oregon State University 2002 Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, Oregon, Grant for Printmaking Project, The Artemisia Suite 2007 Juror's Choice Award, Blossom: The Art of Flowers, The Susan Kathleen Black Foundation, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas 2011 Finalist, Contemporary Northwest Artists Awards 2011, Portland Art Museum, Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Northwest Artists Collection