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SHERRY SHAHAN | AN ARTIST’S STATEMENT
SHERRY SHAHAN | AN ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I am a white settler artist, writer, and poet. I live and work on unceded Chumash and Salinan land on the Central Coast of California. I’ve spent years wandering the globe as a journalist, quietly watching the world and its people from behind, whether in the jungles of Columbia, a backstreet in Havana, or alone from a window in a squat hotel room in Paris—and whether with a 35 mm camera or an iPhone. My sensibilities spill into two categories: those that pick at the scabs of inhumanity and those that reflect promise and possibility. Both styles express my purpose, passion, and personal truths. Now a proud septuagenarian, I’ve begun looking inward, living more fully inside my own skin. I’m no longer too old or too slow. I move at my own pace, eschewing imperfections and embracing my authentic female self.
Sherry Shahan is a teal-haired septuagenarian who lives in a laid-back beach town in California. Her art has appeared in Progenitor, Antithesis, Zoetic Press, The Hunger, Josephine Quarterly, december, Harbor Review, and elsewhere. She’s been nominated for The Pushcart Prize in Poetry (2024), holds an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and taught a creative writing course for UCLA for ten years.
