For most of her career Sherry Zvares Sanabria's luminous paintings have focused on spaces and locales where people have experienced profound moments in their lives, places that seem to hold the spirits of those who inhabited them. This moving exhibition of recent works illuminates sites that were important in the lives of African Americans during the time of slavery and after. The artist states: "My intention in painting images from the antebellum and Jim Crow periods in our history is to remember and honor those who lived, worked, and gathered together in these buildings."

Born in Washington, D.C., Sanabria received her bachelor's degree from George Washington University and her master's from The American University. An artist of national and international reputation, her more than twenty one-person exhibitions in public and private spaces include The Phillips Collection and The American Institute of Architects, both in Washington, DC, sand Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York, as well as galleries in DC, MD, GA, VA, NJ and NY. Her works are in museums, corporate and private collections throughout the nation and in Europe.