Steve Sherrell
Digital Mashups & Remixes
February 9, 2015 through March 20, 2015
University of St. Francis Art Gallery
25 East Van Buren, Joliet, IL 60432
Public Reception: Thursday, February 26, 2015, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Steve Sherrell is a career painter from the Chicago school of art. He was raised in Indiana but moved to the Chicago area to finish his education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago earning a BFA and MFA in Painting and Drawing. His early influence was his father who was a painter and window dresser for a large department store. As a boy he was exposed to Abstract Expressionism, Cubism, Pop Art and American Realism. His training at the School of the Art Institute was with Ray Yoshida and Whitney Halstead, who introduced him to studio practices that he has utilized since he graduated. Steve is currently a Professor of Art at Joliet Junior College.
Steve Sherrell, Monet Van Gogh Hiroshige Mashup, 2015
Although Sherrell’s primary medium is paint, he believes that art making tools have expanded. Sherrell states, “I take an open-to-anything, expanded approach to art making, which includes making art with a computer.” Steve Sherrell’s exhibit, Mashups and Remixes is a collection of large-scale digital works printed on canvas. The works are large, colorful and engaging. Sherrell challenges the idea of copyright and art, using bits and pieces of low-resolution famous works from the Internet and “mashing them up” into a new piece that is hardly recognizable as anything but Sherrell’s very own creation. Sherrell’s work touches on his own philosophy of the Postmodern Dilemma: the Art world’s need to kill Art and his own desire to keep it alive. Lucky for us, his viewers, Sherrell is doing just that.
Steve Sherrell, Rauschenberg Remix, 2015
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays through Fridays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and by appointment
For additional information, please contact:
Jennifer Moore, Gallery Director
Phone: 815-740-3787
E-mail: jmoore@stfrancis.edu
