Stacy Shorr, formerly Stacy Serwecki, recently moved to New Castle PA from Worcester, MA were she was member of both Aurora Gallery and The Worcester Artist Group were she recently participated in exhibitions. She has shown her work throughout the Northeast, including the Haywood Gallery, a traveling show named Muse Fuse, and Worcester Artist Group. Her most recent group show was Fire and Ice at the Aurora.

Her most recent works are based on a series of dreams that she journaled and later revisited and the fact that some of her work was recently lost or misplaced during her recent move.

Luckily, I gave some of my favorite pieces to my daughter, and of course the ones that sold are still preserved. I have a few hanging in my home, but other than that...Including in the missing lot was one of the first oil works the artist created. It was a piece done in high school, originally for an album cover, and was surreal. Since then I have used and experimented with a number of mediums. One was watercolor, and while creating watercolor works are not my preference, I loved the curve and feel of some of the round brushes and have incorporated them into my work in acrylics to create smooth curvaceous lines and the layered colors often found in watercolor. I have also been experimenting with spray paints and metallic paints, again, and the texture and lack of texture they produce on a plain. I have slowly moved away from surrealism, but feel the influence can still be felt in the pieces I make. More of my pieces are figurative and some move into the fantastical. My interests in literature, mythology, and religion find there way into my works.

Losing a lot of pieces was a sad experience. At first I was a little panicked, but since I couldn't do anything about it decided to look toward the positive. I have all of my experiences of course, but I am free to break into a newer form now, rather than a continuation of the old. We all evolve in our work. I am also feeling it as a motivating experience. I've never been without an apartment full of paintings and I feel a compulsion to fill the void. Imagine if you moved and lost all of your clothes, you would immediately need to go out and find new ones.

I started drawing on any paper available when I was a child. I used to save the white square inserts found in the packaging of nylons to draw. I started painting on canvas and board at fifteen, and started taking painting classes in Doherty Memorial High School. I continued in college, but as a minor. Education is a BA in Languages and Literature with a Fine Arts Minor from Worcester State College and an M. Ed from Clark University in MA. I sold my first painting in my late teens, when I first started showing in restaurants and coffee houses.

In addition to painting I also write and have published articles in Spirit of Change Magazine. "Flowers for Isaiah", a short story, appeared in an anthology Street Signs. I contribute to the synagogues bulletin in the form of the Rebbetzin's Message. I am currently on sabbatical from my work as an English teacher and am working on painting and publishing.

Stacy Shorr's daughter Sasha is a photographer who lives in the Boston area. Stacy lives in New Castle with her husband, Rabbi Martin Shorr, their two cats and two dogs.