Fruit Bowl with Stars decoration. This thick tactile surface texture and brightly coloured image is typical of Serota's still life paintings.
Artist
Artist Name
Phyllis Serota
Biography
Phyllis Serota was born to Jewish parents in Chicago just months before the Kristallnacht in 1938. This event, along with her experience growing up in a family that kept silent about their own personal histories and the Holocaust, would deeply influence her artistic vision later in life. She has been a full-time professional artist since 1979 and holds a BFA from the University of Victoria, where she graduated that same year. Her works have been exhibited widely in Western Canada and the United States, including at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the University of Victoria, and galleries in Kelowna, Edmonton, Seattle, Portland and California. Her work is included in numerous public collections, including the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Province of British Columbia. In 2011, she published Painting My Life: A Memoir of Love, Art, and Transformation, a reflection on her life’s journey as an artist.
Image Dimensions (inches/centimetres)
Image Height (inches)
12
Image Width (inches)
16
Framed?
Yes
Acquisition Type
Gift
Essays
Phyllis Serota’s artwork explores memory, reality and the passage of time. She examines how personal and collective memories evolve, distort and obscure over time and space, often resulting in work full of sensitively rendered figures and subtle colour palettes. She works in oil, acrylic, watercolour and monotype.
"In my painting, I discover and explore both my reality and my memories. I realize that I am not only remembering specific moments but in some of my recent paintings, interpreting the act of memory itself. I am interested in what the distance of time and space can do to distort and obscure the images." Quote from Artist Biography, Suddenly Dance Theatre, “The Dance by Phyllis Serota”, https://www.suddenlydance.ca/product-page/the-dance-by-phyllis-serota
Exhibitions
Rental Gallery identification of verso does not say which organization was renting. ID number is 1917AJ.
