About
Sherry Davis hails from Toledo, Ohio in the American Rust Belt where she grew up surrounded by the husks of abandoned and deteriorating factories. Despite coming from a family of factory workers, Davis was just a generation away from farm life. Her grandmothers and aunts, passed on to her both the farmer ethos of thriftiness and the skills of her homesteading feminine ancestors. All of these influences are reflected in her current work.
Davis received a Bachelor of Fine Art from Kent State University, a Master's degree from Brooklyn College and attended at The Art Students League of New York. She has studied with numerous artists, including Sheila Hicks, Barbara Eckhardt, Arline Fisch, Nance O'Banion, Janice Lessman-Moss, and Deborah Winiarski.
Davis’ artwork has been exhibited at many galleries and institutions, including the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, the Schweinfurth Art Center, the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, East End Arts, and the Atlantic Gallery in Chelsea. She recently received a New York State Council of the Arts grant for a major site specific artwork (and accompanying photography exhibit) that will debut in 2024.
GRANTS & AWARDS
NYSCA Creative Individual SCR Grant: New York State Council on the Arts - 2024
1st Place - People's Choice Award: Well Red, East End Arts, Riverhead, NY - 2024
Curatorial Award in Mixed Media: 50 Reasons Why, East End Arts, Riverhead, NY - 2022
EXHIBITIONS (*current, **upcoming)
Harvesting Memories in Blue, EEA's 11 West Gallery, Riverhead, NY - 2024**
Harvesting Memories in Blue, Sound Ave. & Park Rd., Riverhead, NY - 2024*
Plant Life, Floyd Memorial Library, Greenport, NY - 2024*
Apocalypso Series, Vine + Sand, Southold, NY - 2024*
Gallery 36, Textile Study Group of NY, New York, NY - 2024*
Planetary Alignment, Floyd Memorial Library, Greenport, NY - 2024*
Well Red, East End Arts, Riverhead, NY - 2024
Entwined Ovism I: The Transformation, Cutchogue New Suffolk Free Library, Cutchogue, NY - 2023-24
10x10=100, VSOP Projects, Southold, NY - 2023
Gallery 35, Textile Study Group of NY, New York, NY - 2023
What Awaits Within, Cutchogue New Suffolk Free Library, Cutchogue, NY - 2023
Where is the Human?, East End Arts, Riverhead, NY - 2023
Sumer Group Show, Cutchogue New Suffolk Free Library, Cutchogue, NY - 2023
Textile Talks - The Entwined Stories of Fiber Art, Floyd Memorial Library, Greenport, NY - 2023
Recycle 2023, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY - 2023
Art from Detritus, Viridian Artists, New York, NY - 2023
Made in NY, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY - 2023
Through the Eye of the Needle, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY - 2023
Gallery 34, Textile Study Group of NY, New York, NY - 2023
Tenuous Threads, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY - 2023
Horizon, 11 West Gallery, East End Arts, Riverhead, NY - 2023
10x10=100, VSOP Projects, Southold, NY - 2022
Southampton Artist Member Show, Levitas Center for the Arts, Southampton, NY - 2022
50 Reasons Why: Your Take on the East End, 11 West Gallery, East End Arts, Riverhead, NY - 2022
Uncommon Threads, Huntington Arts Council, Huntington, NY - 2022
Wide Open 12, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY - 2022
Art and Artists for the Ukraine, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY - 2022
Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, Dix Hills, NY - 2022
Dan’s Reimagined, East End Arts, Riverhead, NY - 2022
Holiday Show, East End Arts, Riverhead, NY - 2021
RRW, New York, NY - 1990
Woven Images on Paper, New York, NY - 1990
Broadway Open Studio, New York, NY - 1990
Christie Street Group, New York, NY - 1989
Untitled (a site specific installation), Kent, OH - 1989
Industrial Hill (a site specific installation), Kent, OH - 1988
Spaces, Kent, OH - 1988
Reweaving Mother Earth and Other Roadside Debris, Kent, OH - 1988
Coaxial Cable (a site specific installation), Kent, OH - 1988
Landfill, Kent, OH - 1988
PRESS
It took 1,000 pairs of jeans to build this spherical sculpture in Riverhead Newsday, 2 Sept. 2024, pA12
Blue jean sphere grabs attention on Sound Ave. Riverhead News-Review, 29 Aug. 2024, p1 & 4
Blue jean sphere grabs attention on Sound Ave. The Suffolk Times, 29 Aug. 2024, p14 32
That’s not the great pumpkin — but what is it? RiverheadLOCAL, 23 Aug. 2024
WELL RED - Chris Jones. East And Arts. Mar 2023
Matter of Spark: Where is the Human? - Chris Jones. East End Arts, Podcast Episode 2. Jan 2023
Through the Eye of the Needle - Artist Citations. Hudson Valley MOCA. Jan 2023, p 11
Living in ... Riverhead N.Y. The New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
“Denim into Art” Up-Cycling Program Now Accepting Donations. Riverhead LOCAL, 19 Feb. 2022
East End Arts Dan’s Reimagined’ Show Opens in Riverhead. Dan’s Papers, 11 Feb. 2022, p 15
Dan’s Papers Covers Are Reimagined in New Art Exhibition. Dan’s Papers, 27 Jan. 2022, p 32