Sherri Belassen

Sherri credits her inspiration in design and composition to trips she took as a child with her father in his two-seater airplane. The patterns and colors of the landscape informed her later aesthetic, which is built around defined blocks of color. “It’s not so much about what I paint, but about the space in which the subject exists,” she says. By using line to separate and connect spatial elements to figurative elements, she strives to evoke a feeling of spatial quality wherein the figures are connected to a space larger than themselves.

Belassen often portrays both humans and animals in her semi-abstract works. Her images capture the essence of their subjects with charm and energy, evoking the stances, movements, and personalities of the subjects. They convey the artist’s powers of observation as well as her sophisticated sense of design and original use of color.

University of Missouri – Columbia 1984 - 1985
Indiana University – Bloomington 1985 - 1989
  - BFA Painting

"In life and art, I stay true to myself and listen to my own voice."