ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Honolulu bom, Sheila Kriemelman is a noted New York artist and teacher. She keeps a studio in SoHo where she lives. Her paintings are in prestigious public, corporate and private collections in the United States, England and Australia including the Klutznik National Jewish Museum in Washington, DC and the Honolulu Academy of Art. She is listed in Who's Who in American Art.

Kriemelman is a professor of art in New York, teaching courses in drawing, painting and art history. She is a pioneer in the use of art to address societal needs and travels nation-wide conducting workshops on the Healing Power of Art.

Kriemelman is currently represented by Campbell and CampbeII Fine Art in Carmel, CA, Connecticut Yankee in Westport, CT, Fine Art Associates in Honolulu, HI, Gallery Maui in Makawao, Maui and PaintingsDirect.com.

ABOUT THE WORK:
Dacau 1933-1945: The Final Solution, 1993, acrylic on canvas, 48" X 60": The work is from a series of paintings giving witness to the torture and killing of five million non-Jews in the death camp between 1933-1945. However, the systematic torture and mass murder of the Jews is the centrally defining issue of the work.

Where Have All the Flowers Gone: Greene Street, 2002, acrylic/mixed-media on paper, 30" X 22": The work is from a series of abstract SoHoscapes that are as much about a family's personal and collective grief, acceptance and redemption as they are about the devastation in my neighborhood as a result of the WTC attacks. It gives witness to the power of art to heal as painting them was a healing and restorative process for me as it is for many who view them.

Inspirations: Yellow Hibiscus, 2004, watercolor on paper, 15" X II": The work is from a series of paintings that were exhibited in Honolulu, HI in the summer of 2004. It gave me an opportunity to actualize my passion for serial imagery and evocative color with subject matter that took me back to my roots. It also gave me an opportunity to return exclusively to watercolor, another one of my passion.