Sherry Markovitz

Sherry Markovitz received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and her Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from the University of Washington in 1975. Her mixed-media works are featured in numerous public and private collections, including The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, American Craft Museum in New York, and Seattle Art Museum as well as the Seattle City Light 1% for Art Collection and Microsoft Corporation, among others. Her work was the subject of a midcareer retrospective at the Bellevue Arts Museum, Sherry Markovitz: Shimmer, Paintings and Sculptures 1979 – 2007 in 2008.

Markovitz’s works include paintings and sculpture and works that combine elements of both. Animals, both domestic and wild, and dolls are recurring motifs in her images representing at various times loss, love, comfort, and security. She often applies various decorative objects to her sculptures and paintings including beads, sequins, lace, feathers, and other small objects. Inherent at all levels of her work is the idea of transformation: two-dimensional to three-dimensional, unadorned to decorated, wild to domestic, loss to acceptance.