"My roots here are deep and I have found the landscape of my heart. That nomadic tendency has abated, the stillness now allowing for the growth I once found only in movement. The natural world— its cycles, its patterns, its fields and gnarled trees—is the wellspring for my current body of work." -Anne Herrero
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art is pleased to introduce From the Ground, Up, Anne Herrero’s first solo show with the gallery.
Anne Herrero spent most of her young adulthood, especially as a student, on the move. Like many people, she lived in a variety of places from California to Chicago to New York to Norway. When the pandemic took hold in 2020, it nudged her toward a sanctuary at her family’s lake cabin in the Midwest. It was there she re-discovered roots that run deep and the landscape of hedgerows and big skies that has inspired her current body of work.
From the Ground, Up reflects on Herrero’s life in Missouri. In addition to landscape works, two figures appear and reappear in her paintings,
