Read an informative interview with Sherry Czekus in Zone One Arts, here. Sherry Czekus is a Canadian painter based in Waterloo, Ontario. She bases her work on a kind of flaneurism, the idea of being a casual observer and reporter of street life in an urban setting, detached yet keenly observant. Her works address crowd culture in public spaces, focusing on our increasingly common experience of being simultaneously members of both physical and virtual crowds. She develops her compositions from her own photographs and videos. Her paintings combine figuration and abstraction, with a series of colors and abstract forms combining to produce an image of people in groups. Czekus’ work examines the everyday experience of being fleetingly present within seemingly random groups of people, the individual members of which may be steadily changing. Czekus sets out to explore the shifting boundaries and fragmentation of these moving or momentarily still groups.