Sea Legs

by Lisa Sheirer

Opening Reception Saturday September 7, 5-8pm

Artist Talk Sunday, September 8 at 2pm

Show Runs: September 7 – October 27, 2024

Lisa Sheirer has been creating art for over 40 years. She works in a wide variety of mediums. The natural world has long been the foundational concept of her work. Awareness of the flora, fauna, microflora, water, and soil comes from hiking in her neighboring watershed, the ancient Catoctin Mountains. Sheirer goes almost daily into the watershed, documenting life there. Her work concerns our local, regional, national, and world environments. Sheirer’s focused study and artistic expression of our natural environment helps us gain awareness of ecological rhythms and change, as we gain our sea legs in an evolving world.

Original works from three different series are being shown for the Sea Legs show: "Stratem" and "Sequence" series are primarily ink paintings, "Thinking of the Future" works are collages. All are ongoing series.

Stratum #53

Alcohol & India Ink on Yupo, 36”x36”

Stratum #26

India Ink on Yupo

“Sea Legs is a collection of work produced over the last three years. The idiom ‘sea legs’ refers to walking steadily on a ship, especially in rough seas, or adjusting to a new situation. The challenge of making art is to steadily move people into a mode of respect for our wild environments by celebrating its beauty. These wild places are our lungs, hearts, and medicine.”

- Lisa Sheirer

Thinking About the Future #5

Collage, mulberry paper, thread, 24”x24”

Sequence #2

Alcohol Ink on Yupo, 36”x26”

Lisa Sheirer is a visual artist, living and working in Frederick, MD. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking from West Virginia University, and a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from The University of Notre Dame. Her public art projects include a ceramic mural at Baltimore Washington International Airport commissioned by the Maryland Department of Transportation, and a glass mural installed in the Western MD Health System lobby. She has been featured in many regional solo shows. Sheirer was chosen to be an artist in residence at the Y Art Center in Frederick and she is also the artist in residence at Foxhaven Farm.



Thinking About the Future #20

Ink and metal powder on Yupo and mat board, 25”x25”

Sheirer recently published two artist books, WaterShed and A Book of Ghosts about regional plant and animal life, available for sale at Gaslight Gallery. Her active social media photographically documents plant life through the seasons in the Catoctin Mountains.

www.lisasheirerprints.com

@Lisasheirer