Celebrated ceramicist and painter Sheryl Zacharia combines shape and surface with masterful musicality and movement, harmonizing old and new into extraordinary compositions.

Zacharia majored in painting at Southhampton College, but spent the following decade as a published singer-songwriter and performer. She then began working in clay, which started her on a new artistic path.

She has taught numerous courses and workshops on ceramics, and in 2011 she completed an eight month extended residency at the Museum Of Arts and Design in NYC. She has exhibited nationally, her work has been featured in various magazines and books, and many of her unique pieces can be found in corporate, museum and private collections.

Though always a true, life-long New Yorker at heart, Zacharia now lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

IN HER OWN WORDS

“My clay work is influenced by the material itself, its history and the intimacy of its interaction with the hand and touch. This is why my surfaces reveal the process; and the process becomes the surface. The intention of my art is to create objects that influence and enhance the space around them, evoking an emotional response…The abstract shapes and painted surfaces are influenced by my music and painting backgrounds. Pattern and form are rhythm, palette is harmony, lines and shapes are lyrical. When I see beauty in life or art I want to repeat it somehow in a unique and meaningful way.”

GALLERY SHERYL ZACHARIA

Sheryl Zacharia’s ceramic sculptures are a product of her experiences as a painter and a published songwriter. Her vibrant colors sing and the “flip side” of her pieces provide an equally pleasing visual.