Sherri Cornett - Sculptor

The Shed Exhibition Space at Level 504 (formerly Grafix)

504 North 20th Street, Billings, Montana

Art Walk

May 2nd

Conversations Among Women

Session 2:  Ethics of Care

Tuesday, May 6th, 5:30 p.m.

(see Conversations page of this website for details)

Rachel Ritter Opening

May 16th, 5:30 p.m. 

Conversations Among Women

Session 3:  Women & Activism

Tuesday, May 20th, 5:30 p.m.

(see Conversations page of this website for details)

Sherri Cornett Opening

cancelled

Conversations Among Women

Session 4:  Diversity of Feminisms

Tuesday, June 3rd, 5: 30 p.m.

(see Conversations page of this website for details)

Grace Frankforter Opening

June 13th, 5:30 p.m. 

Conversations Among Women

Session 5:  Correcting Women's History

Tuesday, June 17th, 5:30 p.m.

(see Conversations page of this website for details)

Summer Solstice Celebration

Conversations Among Women

Session 6:  Status of Women and the 5th Women's World Conference

Tuesday, July 1st, 5: 30 p.m.

(see Conversations page of this wesite for details)

Jeanne Hutchinson & Theresa Nickoloff Opening

July 25th, 5:30 p.m. 

Art Walk

August 1st 

 Artists

Sherri Cornett

Cornett's mixed-media life-sized sculptures are symbolic of women who have mentored her either directly or through their work - her female realtives, family friends, writers, artists, activists...Both shows mix her activism and her art.  Cornett includes text about each woman and her wisdomin each piece and is coordinating "Conversations Among Women" to be held in the gallery space.  These conversations are intergenerational discussions and sharing of views on various topics related to women's lives.

Grace Frankforter

Frankforter's latest mixed media works center on the idea of protective self-containment.  Bantering with the argument that text clarifes, these works combine text and symbolism in a manner designed to confuse or obscure the quiet inner spaces within. Paying homage to the parents of her ideology, Frankforter at once celebrates and questions through these intimately sized works, the beginning, or seeds of her thoughts about life, thinking and spirituality.

Jeanne Hutchinson

For the last five years, Hutchinson has been working in the medium of glass. She finds the translucent properties of glass and vibrant colors intoxicating and impossible to move away from at the moment.  Huchinson loves exploring the beauty and diversity that kiln formed glass provides for her. Her working style reflects a combination of her experiences of learning, teaching and also memories of places visited.  Often her subject matter is eclectic incorporating her real world ideas with the romantic imagery of years gone by; mosre oftenthan not the female is somehow incorporated in her work.  Hutchinson usually combines metal, some form of copper and steel and glass to create her finished art pieces.

Theresa Nickoloff

For Nickoloff, art is one of those things we simply must do in order to allow our spirits to take flight. It is her goal to find beauty in the simplest of things and to look for the best in the worst of things.  For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. Life travels full circle.  These thoughts are reflected in the intenraction of shapes in Nickoloff's steel sculptures. 

Rachel Ritter

Sculptures by Ritter have evolved over the past twenty-five years into an exploration of basic human emotions and questions of spirituality that prevail throughout human nature.  If not through human nature, at a minimu, these questions and emotions have prevailed throughout her existence.  Her works, many dealing with the human form or elements thereof, utilize bronze, aluminum, steel, glass, wood & synthetic metals and stone.  Most of her visual images are achieved via the process rather than preconceived. The thrill of the process leading her rather than her leading the process is where her satisfaction is derived and perhaps this is, after all, where she finds the spirituality that, she feels, so successfully eludes her.