Sheri R. Klein has exhibited her works in galleries, museums and universities nationally and internationally.   She began her formal studies as a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied with a wide range of artist-teachers including many of the Chicago Imagist painters. Her artistic practice embraces painting/drawing, collage, scarf design, and ,mixed media journaling--all of which embrace the exploration of materials and a personal visual iconography that merges intersecting influences of art, creativity,  the inner life and dreams, landscape and place.
 
The subject of current works is liminality that is defined as a 'third space,' or a state of awareness that is marked by uncertainty, flux, and fragmentation--and a state is common to the human experience and the creative and artistic process.  Yet, liminality also holds the potential for discovery, revelation, creativity, magic, and expansiveness.  Liminal spaces are explored across two-dimensional media in visual, symbolic, abstract, and text-infused works on paper, canvas, and fabric that allow for a mapping of visual and conceptual connections, and the reconstruction of fragments of experience. Ultimately, the works, individually and collectively, serve as artifacts of a willful process of artistic inquiry with the aim to juxtapose artifacts for new interpretations and insights. 
​© Sheri R. Klein 2019