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Sherry Arndt proudly resides in Buffalo New York with her, daughter Rhea and their beloved family pet, Meatball.  Born in Erie Pennsylvania as an Army Brat, Arndt quickly learned to adapt to many moves from country to country and city to city.  With the ever-changing landscape of location, personalities and cultures, she became interested in the psychology of the human experience.  In 1998, Arndt obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.  This interest and love of the human experience has parlayed into her artwork as you see it today. 

 

In 2009, Arndt began her journey into the art world working with international artists and mentor, Mark DiVincenzo.  In 2015, shortly after giving birth to her daughter, Arndt started to show her work professionally.  She has shown her work in the United States as well as Canada.

 

Throughout a ten-year process of learning, researching and experimenting, Arndt developed an unconventional technique to her abstract work.  Her paintings are typically vibrant, multilayered and textured.  Arndt builds depth and dimension in her abstract paintings by layering paint with other material, such as sand, glass and textured mediums.  The final step of this process is to pull away paint to reveal parts of the underpaintings.  The results are somewhat unpredictable and leave a cracked surface that illuminates a “behind the scenes” view.  Arndt’s paintings are tied to her original love of psychology in that they aim to be not only beautiful, but also to speak to the damage and history that we all hold behind the facade that we present to the world.  

ARTIST STATEMENT

 

My art’s intent is to illustrate the inner workings of one’s emotional person.  We all hold secrets, scars, experience, and history.  Much of this we hide throughout our daily lives behind a calm, put together facade.   Eventually, something or someone will break this well constructed wall.  This is when we see the cracks in our foundation, revealing our true inner self.  Due to such events, we change and build strength.  I attempt to capture these pivotal breaking and necessary moments in one’s life through my paintings.

 

Throughout a ten-year process of learning, research and experimenting, I developed an unconventional technique to my abstract work.  My paintings are typically vibrant, multilayered, and textured.  I build depth and dimension in the paintings by layering paint with other material, such as sand, glass, and textured mediums.  The final step of this process is to pull away paint to reveal parts of the underpaintings.  The results are somewhat unpredictable and leave a cracked surface that illuminates a “behind the scenes” view.  

SOLO Exhibitions

2023 — Raw, and UnSugared,” Buffalo Art Movement, Buffalo NY 

2022 — “Sometimes Always,” The Monocle, Buffalo NY

2020 — “DeConstruct,” Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo NY 

2019 — “EMOTE,” 1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts, Buffalo NY 

2017 — “Pretense to Pretending,” 1045 Elmwood Gallery for the Arts, Buffalo NY

2016 — “Unkept,” Project 308 Gallery, Tonawanda NY

GROUP SHOWS

2023 — “Inside, Outside, In Between” Juried Exhibition, The Comma Gallery, East Aurora, NY

2023 — Burchfield Penney Art Center (716) ART Juried Auction, Buffalo, NY

2023 — Buffalo Society of Artists Juried Summer Exhibition, Tonawanda, NY 

2022 — Queen City Fine Arts Juried Show, Tonawanda, NY 

2021 — Junior Buffalo League Show House, Buffalo NY

2019 – 2020 — ArtSpace 106, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario CA

2019 — The “Brilliant” Juried Exhibition at NYA Gallery, New York NY

2019 — “Blue Mind” Juried Exhibition at 3rd on 3rd Gallery, Jamestown NY

2019 — Queen City Fine Arts Juried Opening Show, Buffalo NY

2018 — 27th Annual Juried Regional Artist Exhibition, Buffalo NY

2018 — Elmwood Ave Festival for the Arts, Buffalo NY

2018 – 2017 — Big Orbit Gallery Member Show, Buffalo NY

2017 — Modern Works WNY Artist Group Juried Exhibition, Buffalo NY

2017 — Carnegie Art Center Member Show, Buffalo NY

2016 — Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center Member Show, Buffalo NY

Awards

2012 — United Hands of Hope Art Award

PUBLICATIONS

2023 — Buffalo News, article

2020 — Buffalo Rising, article

2017 — Niagara Gazette, article

2017 — West Seneca Bee, article

Education

2017 — Cluffalo Painting Workshop Scholarship, East Aurora NY

2013 – present — Tutorship with Mark DiVincenzo, Buffalo NY

1998 — BA, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro PA

Memberships

In the studio

A collection of music that inspires me.