Sheryl Smith Seltzer

Biography

Born in New York, raised in Ohio, I moved to California from Connecticut in 1996.  I graduated from Duke University in 1969 where I studied painting from Vernon Pratt, printmaking from Barbara Thompson.  I have studied at Evanston Art Institute in Evanston, Illinois, The Silvermine Institute in Silvermine, Connecticut, and Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. I have taught at all levels in schools from K through college as well as many adult workshops in my studio. After 25 years of Voice Over work for radio and television and rasing my famiy, my professional art practice began in 1996 on the west coast and continues here, on the east coast, since 2021

Painting in oil and creating etchings and large format woodcuts, I primarily work with a vocabulary of abstracted landscape imagery, emphasizing pattern, rhythm and energy.  My images are infused with themes of memory, inspiration, hope and desire.  I am currently painting, drawing, and printmaking at my studio in Brooklyn, NY.

Artist statement

My practice is a celebration of the patterns and colors and energy of the natural world.

“When we walk in the world we are surrounded by energy. My effort here is to use paint and the skills of an artist to elicit recognition and understanding of the experience of being alive in the world; to use paint, ink, crayon and two -dimensional space to pay tribute to the energy in which we are immersed. This sounds very dramatic and yet I know that we are all one in the basic enjoyment of our senses as we live our lives. Sometimes we get torn away from this enjoyment and the sense of wonder that it engenders. We are too busy to look. We are too worried to feel. I hope my paintings and prints provoke us to use all our senses and to allow our emotional liveliness to respond.” Quote from my website: www.sherylsmithseltzer.com