Statement
Sheryl Renee Dobson’s work reflects a call and response to the dialogues between: human microcosms and divine macrocosms, creator and created, ancestors and progeny, reductionism and holism, singularity and interconnectedness, this moment, the future, and the past. These impactful and expressive visual “conversations” have revealed that her intent and the frequencies expressed through abstractionism are potentially healing and transformative.
In essence, her works encourage viewers to imagine the infinite possibilities that emanate from acknowledging humanity's preordained interconnectedness while at the same time embracing our collective responsibility to steward the earth's endangered natural resources for future generations
Biography
Sheryl Renee Dobson is an award winning American abstract expressionist painter and collagist of Caribbean, Native American, and European ancestry with strong southern roots, who grew up in Roosevelt, Long Island, New York and is based in New York City. Dobson received an A.B. in International Relations from Brown University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School.
Her love of art began at a young age and her creativity was greatly informed and enhanced as a result of early opportunities, beginning in junior high school and beyond, to engage in a life-long study of art and maintenance of a studio practice. She credits her rural Virginia-born maternal grandmother, Lorraine Lucille Valentine, a skilled seamstress, a brilliant clothing designer, a gifted painter, and a woman of faith, with: nurturing her creativity, encouraging her exploration of abstraction, and instilling in her an appreciation of fine fabric. These influences are reflected in Dobson’s persistent development of new fabric-like patterns, within abstraction, using light, pattern, and texture as a reference to and a metaphor for: faith, connectedness, and culture.
