Sherry Giryotas is informed and influenced by her observations of the natural world and having lived on a variety of continents. Her personal language of markings and patterns repeated across a richly textured canvas is pulled from both nature and global cultural symbols, her observations of a constantly changing environment are referenced in the forms and nuances of light that constantly moves over the canvas. Her work is not specific to a place or time but an amalgamation of memories of living in global landscapes that have melded together into a complex tapestry of images.
Sherry Giryotas has exhibited nationally and internationally in both solo and group shows at venues such as, Georgian Art Museum (Tbilisi, The Republic of Georgia), South Bend Museum of Art (South Bend Indiana), Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Artemisia and ARC Galleries), among others. Awarded several Artist-in-Residence and Fellowships including those at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York and MacDowell, Peterborough, New Hampshire, she has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as individual Artist Fellowship grants from the Illinois Arts Council and Michigan’s MCCA. Ms. Giryotas’ works are in the collections of South Bend Museum of Art, Illinois State Museum, International Sculpture Symposium, Rustavi, The Republic of Georgia, The Illinois Collection, State of Illinois Center, Chicago, Clements University Medical Hospital, Utah Southwestern, and many others.
