Sheri Paisley Awarded 10th Annual Takao Tanabe Prize
Congratulations to Sheri Paisley for winning the 10th Annual Takao Tanabe Prize!
Sheri Paisley was recently selected as the Mid-Career Artist Winner of the 10th Annual Takao Tanabe Prize. Paisley shares this year's Tanabe Prize with the Emerging Artist Winner, Niitsitapi (member of Kainai First Nation) Dené artist Lauren Crazybull.
Sheri Paisley, Hurricane with Roses, oil on canvas, 60 x 66 inches
The Tanabe Prize, named for renowned and celebrated BC painter Takao Tanabe, is an annual award given to artists whose primary medium is painting and who are residents of British Columbia. Artists are selected for the Tanabe Prize by contemporary art curators who are connected to art museums and galleries in British Columbia.
Selection is based on exceptional creativity coupled with a promise of future achievements. Names of the selectors are kept confidential. There is no application process for either the curators or artists. The Tanabe Prize for BC Painters is administered by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
Left to right: Sheri Paisley, Interspersed, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches; Alpine View, oil on canvas, 60 x 66 inches; Overlap and Interlace, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches
On winning the award, Paisley states: I am deeply honored to receive an award bearing the name of Takao Tanabe, an artist whose work I hold in the highest regard within the history of contemporary painting. His disciplined, contemplative approach to landscape has been a lasting influence on how I understand painting as a way of seeing and being in the world.