SHERI BAKES
Sheri Bakes’s work stems from an interest in wind; the atmosphere motion. Her work pulls in and out of focus, from windswept, loosely rendered landscape to abstraction. Fine attention to light and it’s stippling motion throughout a wide variety of landscapes and atmospheric moods are built up through layers. The work is meant to serve as respite and aids to meditation that will appear to shift through the days and grow with the viewer over time.
Bakes lives with Aphantasia (internal blindness or no “mind’s eye”) and works from her own many photographs.
Bakes received a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 1998, and began exhibiting with Bau-Xi Gallery in 2002. She lives and works on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Kevin Chong wrote for the Globe and Mail: "Her brooding wind-swept scenes highlight tensions not only between the sky and land, but also between the physical landscape and the world of the mind."
Bakes has exhibited in Europe, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver. Her work has been placed in numerous private collections across North America and Europe, and in permanent collections with Emaar Properties, Dubai, UAE, Enunciate Conferencing, Toronto Dominion Bank, UBC Psychiatric Hospital, Vancouver General Hospital, St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, BC. and Swedish Hospital in Seattle.
Film on Sheri Bakes by CBC Arts
Exhibition Catalog Essay for 'Extreme Imagination – inside the mind’s eye'
Sheri Bakes 2019 Exhibition Catalog Landscapes
Sheri Bakes 2017 Exhibition Catalog Celestial Navigation
