Sheree Wood is a contemporary painter who finds inspiration in the natural world. She uses photography to document her daily research then, in the studio, moves toward the intuitive. She merges the representational and the abstract on canvas, allowing creativity and imagination to determine the ultimate outcome of the picture.
Born in Ames, Iowa, Wood studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, La Universidad Complutense (Madrid, Spain), La Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
Currently she lives in Milwaukee, WI and Tucson, AZ, with studios in both the desert and near the shore of Lake Michigan.
Exhibits
Artist Bio
2023
Art* Bar, HIP 2B SQUARE show: Feb-March, 2023, Milwaukee, WI.
2022
Alverno College, Mother|Nature Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI.
ARTBOX.PROJECT Zürich 4.0, Zürich, Switzerland.
Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Food, Glorious Food Exhibition, Cape Cod, MA.
Rahr-West Art Museum,LMA's Road Trip Exhibition, Manitowoc, WI.
Las Laguna Gallery, Women In Art Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA.
Inspiration Studios, WVA Turn Up the Heat Exhibition, West Allis, WI.
Las Laguna Gallery, Golden Online Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA.
Abstracted Visions, Online Exhibition, Wisconsin Visual Artists, WI.
The Overture Center Gallery Playhouse, Everything Covid, Madison, WI.
Cedarburg Art Museum, One Square Mile, Cedarburg, WI.
2020-21
Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA), Member's Show 2020 & 2021, West Bend, WI.
The Arts Mill, Included Exhibition, Grafton, WI.
Cedarburg Cultural Center, The Little Show, Cedarburg, WI.
Elvia's Arte Gallery, Women Supporting Women, Glendale, WI.
Artist Statement
My work is a quest to find what I call the visual ticklish spot, the place where color, light and imagination come together to expand our vision beyond the surface of the everyday.
Publications
Wild Roof Journal, Issue #18, January 2023, cover.
Pandemic Pages: Sketches From My Quarantine Diary, Sheree Wood, 2020.