Sondra Sherman

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Sondra Sherman
Born1958
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater Temple University (BFA)
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (Diplom)
Known forJewelry designer

Sondra Sherman (born 1958) is an American painter and jewelry maker. Sherman's work has been praised for its "deeply personal" expression of human emotion and of the subjects inspired by them. [1] Sherman's skills and reputation as a jeweler have earned her many awards, including a Tiffany Foundation Emerging Artists Award, various fellowships, and a Fulbright Scholarship. [2]

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Early life and education

Sherman was born in 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [3] She majored in painting and jewelry at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia before moving to Germany in 1984.

In 1980, Sherman received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, where she concentrated in jewelry and painting. In 1990, she received her Diplom (a Master of Fine Arts equivalent) from the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich in Germany. [4]

Career

Since 2006, Sherman has worked as an associate professor at San Diego State University, specializing in jewelry art and metalwork. She has also taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Savannah College of Art and Design, State University of New York at New Paltz, and Rhode Island College.

Selected Series and Artwork

The Box Pieces

Sherman's series The Box Pieces reflects on archetypes and the dynamic which exist within relationships. This series primarily consists of jewelry objects which often reference archetypal literary and mythical characters including Miss Havisham, Venus, and Cupid. Sherman complicates these figures by incorporating themes such as sensuality, sexuality, and decay into their representations. [5]

Each piece in this series is contained by a box made to serve as its complement, the feature for which the series is named. of these boxes, American Author Ralph Turner writes, "a narrative documenting the finding of the components of her jewelry is hinted at, or reproduced, on its container. This narrative permeates her graceful, 'classical' interpretations, which transform fragments from old chandeliers, photographs and crushed glass, reinventing them into votive and ambiguous ornament." [6]

Anthophobia: Fear Of Flowers

This series, first exhibited at Gallery Sienna Patti in 2007, reflects on the increasing medicalization of American society by presenting plants typically used in pharmaceuticals in steel brooches that make visual reference to corsages. [7] Describing her own work, Sherman writes, "I hate pharmaceutical commercials. They make me nervous and then sell me something to ease my nerves. I like the idea of a medicinal corsage, and, jewelry that soothes." [8]

Upside Down in Paradise

Upside Down in Paradise explores the cultural and geographic landscape of Southern California. Within this series, Sherman photographs the landscape as seen from inside of trains and cars, largely focusing on ordinary or mundane buildings, and then presents the images captured in jewelry objects. [9] of this series, Sherman writes, "While ‘Upside Down in Paradise’ has a particular geographical reference, its subject is inherently universal- in the diversity of ethnicities and social histories which make up the culture of California, but also in the common experiences of (re)locating oneself in an unfamiliar place, or the perceptions developed while traveling through... The vestigial glamour of the California idyll of the 1950’s and 60’s, palpable in the faded commercial signs, and architectural facades which punctuate the roadside with their gemstone-like shapes, and generous proportions, against the expansive blue sky inspire oversize jewelry with sun weathered surfaces." [9]

Collections

Sherman's work is in the permanent collections of: [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Judging a Book by Its Cover | Art Jewelry Forum". artjewelryforum.org. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  2. ↑ "Sondra Sherman | School of Art + Design" . Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  3. ↑ Ramljak, Suzanne (2 May 2014). Unique by Design: Contemporary Jewelry in the Donna Schneier Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 133–. ISBN   978-1-58839-554-2.
  4. ↑ 500 brooches : inspiring adornments for the body. Le Van, Marthe. (1st ed.). New York: Lark Books. 2005. ISBN   1579906125. OCLC   55847487.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ↑ Cummins, Susan; Bennett, Jamie; Gralnick, Lisa (1999). Beyond The Obvious: Rethinking Jewelry. San Francisco, California: San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum. p. 49. ISBN   1877742066.
  6. ↑ Turner, Ralph (1996). Jewelry in Europe and America: New Times, New Thinking. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd. p. 74. ISBN   9780500278796.
  7. ↑ Sherman, Sondra; Metcalf, Bruce (2007). Anthophobia: Fear of Flowers. Lennox, Massachusetts: Gallery Sienna Patti. p. 2. ISBN   9780977455966.
  8. ↑ Sherman, Sondra (3 July 2018). "Anthophobia: Fear of Flowers". SONDRA SHERMAN Jewelry. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  9. 1 2 Sherman, Sondra (26 February 2018). "UPSIDE DOWN IN PARADISE". SONDRA SHERMAN Jewelry. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  10. ↑ ""Sondra Sherman: Found Subjects" exhibition runs at Hunterdon Art Museum". artdaily.com.
  11. ↑ "Sondra Sherman | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org.
  12. ↑ "Sondra Sherman". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
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