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Above & Below: The Art of Tsherin Sherpa – Filmshow

March 6 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Above & Below film

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.

“It was an honor to have a privileged look into the lives of these two artistic masters and teachers. I knew in my heart that others would also want to enter the sanctum of Buddhist art through this film. My hope is to share a piece of their world with the audience.”
-Sheri Brenner

 

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 SherpaTsherin Sherpa

Above and Below tells the story of just such a spirit. Tsherin Sherpa, devout Buddhist artist, trained by his father in the art of traditional Tibetan Buddhist thangka painting, moves from Kathmandu to San Francisco and reinvents himself, finding new meaning for an ancient art form, and launching the next wave in Tibetan contemporary art.

Details

Date:
March 6
Time:
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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Website:
https://svma.org/exhibition/tsherin-sherpa-different-worlds/

Organizer

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
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Venue

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
511 Broadway
Sonoma, CA 95476 United States
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