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This year the Culture Crawl is celebrating a 25 year anniversary.
There will be plenty to see and do so mark your caledars for November 12-14 whee you can visit my studio by appointment. November 18-21 my studio will be open for visitors who are fully vaccinated. I do hope you will come to visit over the weekend.
For the month of April 2021 my work is featured online at The Cultch Gallery. Please have a look and tell me what you think. INDUSTRIAL REMNANTS exhibition is a series of collages on fabric and panel inspired by the Wilkinson Steel Building in Vancouver. 
The inspiration for my collages is the derelict Wilkinson building that I often walk past when exploring my neighbourhood. The building at the foot of First Avenue and Cook Street, was a warehouse built in 1950 to import and distribute industrial metal products. It once was situated on the waterfront on False Creek until the infill gave it a new orientation. Today, it is classified as a heritage building by the City of Vancouver.
Its corrugated steel cladding aged and weathered by wind and rain offers up an alternative concept of beauty. The randomness of its rusty decay creates unique surfaces that are raw and real.
Although I live in a condo tower and look out daily on Vancouver “The City of Glass” nicknamed by Douglas Coupland, I shun all that is shiny and embrace the past that has survived the passage of time.
Examining, probing, discovering are my research methods. Mixed media collages allow me to approach the limits of this exploration. My art materials bring out the inventor in me. Just as erosion on the steel cladding has created a unique texture, I am compelled to explore and create interesting textures and layers to build unique surfaces, too. I delight in the colour of rust. Iron is such a strong metal and yet, when corroded, it becomes very fragile and unstable. Rust almost always tells of something old and decaying created useless by the passage of time. When old buildings are torn down every day to make room for high-rise apartments, it is amazing to see the old Wilkinson building survive in the heart of the city. It is classified as a heritage building for important reasons but it is the visual look of the building which I find so interesting.
https://thecultch.com/gallery/sherry-cooper/
You are welcome to drop by Saturday February 6th to Studio 108-1000 Parker for First Saturday. the open studio is from 12 noon -5 pm. Wear a mask and you are welcome to enter. COVID distancing in place.
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I am excited to announce that my fans will be able to see my paintings during the Culture Crawl at Luppolo Brewery 1123 Venables St. Vancouver V6A 2C3. My studio will be closed to visitors this year due to COVID restrictions but Lupplo will be open. Tues-Thurs 2-9 Fri-Sat. 12-10 pm Sunday 12-9 pm
I hope you can drip by Luppolo during the month of November and check out a selection of my work. If you are interested in purchasing my work, please contact me directly sherrycooperart@gmail.com
