Sherman

Michael Sherman

Artist's Resume

Trees are an enduring beauty in the harsh urban environment and one of the building blocks of the city. Trees have been used as visual
screens that when incorporated in the architectural environment soften and humanize it.

Drawing with cardboard. Using discarded bundles of boxes from the street, I created a cardboard ‘drawing’ on the wall at Art Access Gallery. Through tearing, cutting, and gluing I re-assembled the boxes turning them back into New York City tree forms. Along side the tree are photographs of other cardboard trees placed in and
around New York City and Columbus on construction walls, fences and buildings.

This project is a largely about recycling the abundant cardboard boxes discarded around the city. The title ‘A million more trees’ is a
reference to the plan NYC initiative to plant trees to “beautify”
neighborhoods. While we plant trees, recycling rates in NYC and across the country are incredibly low. Unless we decrease the amount of waste produced, a million more trees does little to off-set the greater cost of American life to the global environment.

Michael is originally from Columbus but now lives in New York City.

MEMBERSHIPS & REPRESENTATION
Art Access Gallery, Bexley, OH
Lascano gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Gallery Z, Providence, RI

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 “Variations in the Landscape”, Art Access Gallery, Bexley
“ Dealer’s Choice”, Schumacher Gallery, Capital Univ.
The Painterly and the Linear, Lascano Gallery, MA
Mural Project, Whitehall, OH

2006 “Portraits”, ROY G BIV, Columbus, OH
“ New Works”, Gallery Z, Providence, RI
“ Ohio to Brooklyn”, Art Access Gallery, Bexley, OH
“ Take to the City, Take to the Country”, Haddad Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“ Open Painting”, Providence Art Club, Providence
2005 “Near and Far”, Art Access Gallery, Bexley, OH
“Unseen City”, Schumacher Gallery, Capital University
“Urban Un-Urban”, Providence Art Club
“New Works”, Art Access Gallery, Bexley
“Selected Works”, Gallery Z, Providence
“Little Pictures”, Providence Art Club
“Selected Works”, Eldred Wheller Gallery, Hingham, MA

AWARDS
Elizabeth Greenshelds Foundation Grant, Quebec, Canada, 2006
Providence Art Club Award, Providence, 2006
Greater Columbus Arts Council, Purchase Award, 2005
Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Grant, 2005
Dresden, Germany, Residency, nomination, GCAC, 2004

ARTWORK: Landscape

Prices range from $500 to $4,000.

Image (click to enlarge)	Number	Title	Size	Media	Show Opening
	SHE 801	Abruzzo, Italy	34x50	Oil	8/6/10
	SHE 801	Arial View (Roma)	54x54"	Oil	8/6/10
	SHE 801	Chapel View (Roma)	16x16"	Oil	8/6/10
	SHE 801	Transit (Roma)	16x40"	Oil	8/6/10
	SHE 801	Vertical City (Abruzzo)	26x34"	Oil	8/6/10
	SHE 701	Tree Screens		Cardboard boxes	11/13/09
	SHE 601	Aerialscape 20	38x48"	Oil on canvas	11/14/08
	SHE 602	Aerialscape 20	24x44"	Oil on canvas	11/14/08
	SHE 603	Recycled Car #4	16x16"	Oil on canvas	11/14/08
	SHE 604	Recycled Car #5	16x16"	Oil on canvas	11/14/08
	SHE 501	Edificio	16x16"	Oil on canvas	2/22/08
	SHE 502	Edificio II	18x32"	Oil on canvas	2/22/08
	SHE 503	La Porta	36x24"	Oil on canvas	2/22/08
	SHE 504	Piazza (Roma)	18x18"	Oil on canvas	2/22/08
	SHE 505	Sicily	48x50"	Oil on canvas	6/8/07
	SHE 506	Untitled (Trastevere)	16x12"	Oil on canvas	2/22/08
	SHE 507	Trastevere III	20x16"	Oil on canvas	2/22/08

Art Access Gallery, 540 South Drexel Avenue, Bexley, OH 43209