Sheryl Pierson
"A common theme in my artwork is relationships, the interaction between lovers, family, friends, women to women, men to men, the age old battles between the sexes and etc...sometimes the struggle for power. Eyes and hands have special significance to me, and they are often emphasized or altered. In a series within the body of work I have used the image of the Mona Lisa to symbolize the traditional role of women. Poor Mona has been trapped in that landscape for centuries. I have tried to give her new freedoms, new ways to express herself. The red cross that appears in the Mona Series pieces represents independence and freedom. In a way, Mona Lisa's emanicipation parallels my own; the freedoms I have discovered in my new form of expression."
