sherry markovitz

Sherry Markovitz was born in 1947 in Chicago, Illinois. She received her BA in Ceramics and Art Education from the University of Wisconsin, and her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Washington. Her work is in the permanent collections of The American Craft Museum, New York; The Corning Museum of Glass, New York; Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina; and The Seattle Art Museum, Seattle. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and museums nationally and internationally, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto. In 2019, Marvovitz was awarded the Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

In this new body of work by Sherry Markovitz, tree branches form the structure of the work. Bent and bound together, the wood is formed into looping circles and arcs. Layers of under-painting and intensely colored beads are applied to the forms. The opaque, transparent and translucent beads give the work a shimmering, jewel-like beauty, sometimes playful, at other times serene.