One of my zig zag abstract plaster sculptures titled Mountain (ca. 1984—third shelf /left side (above) is in the collection of Ray Yoshida’s Collection in the Art Preserve, housed in the John Michael Kohler Art Center (WI). It was also in the exhibition, Museum of Extraordinary Values, at the Kohler in 2014. Ray Yoshida was an influential painter and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His vast collection of thousands of images and objects that included fine art, folk art, outsider art, Chicago art, and non-Western art and artifacts filled his home. Through his acts of collecting and curation, Yoshida provided an example to other artists as to how images and objects from art and visual culture can be a potent source and inspiration for developing a personal artistic iconography and language.

© Braided Streams LLC Sheri R. Klein 2024

Selected Exhibitions

  • Russel Semerau and Sheri Klein, Phipps Center, Gallery Two, Hudson WI, December 13, 2024 - January 26, 2025

  • Member’s Exhibition, Phipps Center, Hudson, WI, November – December 2023

  • Russel Semerau and Sheri Klein, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, Eau Claire, WI November 2023 -January 2024

  • 26th National Collage Society, Members Exhibit, Kansas City (Central) Public Library, KCMO, Montana Gallery, April-June 2023

  • Arts West 44. L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, Eau Claire, WI, March 30 – May 24 2023 (juried, Honorable Mention)

  • Group Exhibition, Art Department, University of Nebraska, Kearney, 2022

    National Collage Society, Members [online] exhibit, May-September 2021 Award Winner, http://www.nationalcollage.com/2021smallformat.html

  • Ray Yoshida’s Museum of Extraordinary Values, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI. (one of my sculptures included from this collection of Ray Yoshida), 2014

    Impressions: Artists Consider the MDG's and Post-2015. UN Commission on the Status of Women. United Nations, New York, NY

  • Points of Reference: Contemporary Abstraction. Curated by Betsy Stirratt. Indiana, 1993

  • Chicago Fire 2. Navy Pier. Chicago, IL,1988

  • Summer Artists Group Exhibit. Vermont Studio School Gallery, VT, 1988

  • 41st Western NY Exhibition, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1986

  • 17th National Juried Exhibition, Levitan Gallery, Soho, NYC, 1986

  • Drawing From the Well, Banff School of Art, Canada, 1984

  • 80th Chicago & Vicinity Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, 1984