About
Whether it is with paint or ink,
Surelle Strike creates visual narratives,
and tells stories with her art.
Since the beginning of time we’ve told stories. Sometimes these tales were an escape into fantasy, but often story telling was used as a way to teach morals, and to share life or death advice. Fairy tales would be filled with love, and disappointment , warnings about types of men that a woman may encounter in the woods, or quiet recipes for ending an unwanted pregnancy. Fairy tales and fables were filled with the realities of both tragedy, and hope.
When I create, I want to tell a story, I want you to think about what is happening in an image and find a way to connect with it personally. I love weaving symbolic details into my artwork, to add to the narrative. I hope you feel empowered, moved, excited or overwhelmed, and that my artwork speaks to you.
sschewe763@gmail.com
AWARDS
2023 Best in Show-Andromeda, Monochrome, North Suburban Center for the Arts, Fridley, MN
2022 Award of Excellence- Minerva, Minnesota Artists Association Exhibit, Burnsville, MN
2022 Best in Show-Jezebel, Artistry Member Show, Bloomington, MN
2022 Anoka-Ramsey Community College Award, Jezebel, The Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Competition, St. Paul, MN
2022 Honorable Mention, Spring Fever; This Is Normal, NSCA Fridley, MN
2022 Award of Merit, Jezebel; Minnesota Artists Association Spring Juried Exhibition, Fridley, MN
2021 Best in Show, Late Bloomer: North Suburban Center for the Arts Member Show, Fridley, MN
2019 First Place Red Sky At Morning; The Northern Showcase, hosted by, Artists Del Norte, Blaine, MN
2019 Second place, Alice the Cartographer, Banfill Locke Members show, Fridley MN
2019 First place 'The Red Cloak and Pelt', Autumn Inspirations Exhibit hosted by the Blaine City Arts council, Blaine, MN
2019 First Place 'The Trap', World of Plants Exhibit, Hosted by the Blaine Arts Council, Blaine, MN
2018 Second place 'Poison', World of Plants Exhibit, Blaine Arts Council Blaine, MN
2018 Second place 'Poison', World of Plants Exhibit, Blaine Arts Council Blaine, MN
2008 Daily Deviation Award, Photography, The Hunger, Deviantart.com
EHIBITIONS
2024 Visage: A Contemporary Portrait Show- Gamut Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2024 Artful Stories, Solo Exhibition- Casket Arts Building, Supercharged Printmakers Studio 119, Minneapolis, MN
2024 Stories in Print and Paint, Solo Exhibition- Hallberg Center for the Arts, Wyoming, MN
2023 801 Gallery, Supercharged Printmakers- 4 person Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN
2023 Other Worldly Arts Collective- Button Mashers, Minneapolis, MN
2022 Solo Exhibition- The Story She Tells, Rum River Art Center, Anoka, MN
2021 Exhibited “Behold:” at the Minnesota State Fair Art Exhibition, St. Paul, MN
2021 Several works displayed for Visage; a Three Artist Exhibition at the University of Minnesota, Coffman Memorial Union Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Solo Exhibition - Dunn Brothers, Coon Rapids, MN
PROJECTS
2023 Artwork feature in Reed Magazine
2021 Article feature in: The Minnesota Women’s Press, Healing Through Creation
FORMAL EDUCATION
2009 -2010 Awarded Portfolio Scholarship and attended Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
2008 Post-Secondary Education courses at Minneapolis College of Art and Design
RELATED WORK
2023-Current Director of Education- Hallberg Center for the Arts, Wyoming, MN
2023- Current Artist Teacher- Hallberg Center for the Arts, Wyoming, MN
2023 Guest Artist Teacher at Super-Charged Printmakers, Minneapolis, MN
2012-19 Teaching art classes to groups, covering composition, color, and techniques for painting in acrylic, Coon Rapids, MN
2018 Designed the Anoka Champlin fire Department ladder truck decal -Anoka, MN
2015 Created several commissioned portrait works, tattoos, and Logo Designs
SKILLS & MEDIUMS
Painting with Oil, Acrylic, Gouache, watercolor, Drawing, Linocut Printmaking