JCC on the Palisades

Waltuch Gallery

DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 2002

Captured By Time

Sylvia Sherr

	Title: *Resurrection* Medium: Oil on Canvas --40"X 36" Regular Price: $5,000--
	Title: *Invitation* Medium: Oil on Canvas -- 48"X 36" Regular Price: $3,000--
	Title: *Family Album 1* Medium: Ceramic Insert in Photo Transfer Panel--18"X16" Regular Price: $ 700--
	Title: *Deja Vu* Medium: Oil and Photo Transfers on Panel --14"X11" Regular Price: $390--
	Title: *Generations* Medium: Oil on Canvas with Ceramic Insert --48"X36" Regular Price: $3,000--
	Title: *The Old Town* Medium: Oil on Canvas -- 48"X30" Regular Price: $2,000--

Title: Botticelli Daydream

Medium: Oil on Panel, Ceramic Tiles -- 20"X16"
Regular Price: $450--

SYLVIA SHERR

Captured By Time

Artist's Statement

For many years, even as a child, I have had feelings about the passage of time. I have longed to make a kind of contact with human beings that have lived in the past.

The desire to make this type of contact has developed my own artwork. I have experienced art works by artists no longer living as communication from past to present. Bust as an artist I feel that I can bring together all kinds of people, ones I see around me and ones who no longer are living in the present but who shared our earth. My aim is to evoke a dialogue of my own between people and time.

The work is fantasy, but the feelings expressed are real. The realistic figures are not literal but, hopefully, project a certain reality. They express the experience of being in the center of a timeless continuum.

Painting Techniques : I work in layers and transparencies using oil on canvas or panels. I sometimes include ink and photographic images on the panels.

Ceramic Techniques : I draw on clay with a pin tool and apply stains and glazes before the second firing in a kiln. Line is the dominant form of my expression in clay. The volume gained in three-dimensional clay relates to the drawn line in a way not possible on a two dimensional surface. The images of people are caught in the split second of time. Transformations of line and volume convey the tension and energy of living spirits.

For further information about artist or art works, sizes, frames and pricing, please contact the JCC office at 201-569-7900 ext.433 to speak with Waltuch Gallery Director Ophrah Listokin.

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