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Above & Below: The Art of Tsherin Sherpa – Filmshow
March 6 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Film Screening and Conversation
with Filmmaker Sheri Brenner and Artist Tsherin Sherpa
2003-2022 – A film that spans the career of artist Tsyerih Sherpa.
Wed, March 6, 2024, 5:30 – 7 pm
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
The Project Story
Sheri Brenner, the film’s Director, met Tsherin during a visit to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. He was demonstrating thangka painting. She was enthralled by his work and they spoke about making a short film. Tsherin recommended that Sheri film his father, Urgen Dorje Sherpa, a master thangka painter known throughout the country. That began a project which spanned the next fifteen years in which Sheri filmed Tsherin in the United States and Urgen Dorje Sherpa in Nepal, gaining rare insight into the real world of Tibetan sacred art and lives of its artist.
The Artist
“There are spirits of the mountain, spirits of the water. What if those spirits were gone? Gone because everyone had moved to different places? How would they cope with the new environment?”
– Tsherin Sherpa