Eh Sherman

Statement:
My work is about material, experimentation and process; the colors and forms are informed by my environment. Through multi-year layered paintings, cut up sketches and old work reassembled, or paintings that stop before they might be considered ‘finished’ I am interested in exploring the nature of making art and examining the idea of finality.

What is truly finished? When does the experiment stop and art begin?

My process is impulse and intuition; reacting to what is happening on the surface of the canvas in that moment; pools of paint moved by gravity, water soaking through a page, combined with an editing process that might be years out, or immediate and delivered by swift scissors, the moment repurposed into something else.

I am seeking out exploration, test and trial, for the discovery of tiny worlds in overlapping pigments and the freedom/excitement/terror of knowing it might be cut apart tomorrow. Everything is both impermanent and permanent and my work is attempting to live in the in-between.


Bio:
Ellen Sherman is a visual artist living and working in Ann Arbor MI. After graduating from Michigan State University in 2008 with a BFA in Studio Art she moved to Miami Florida and helped co-found and later became Ar...

Independent Painting Study, Bregenz Austria 2007

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Michigan State University 2008

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Show: Material Experiments, Cahoots, Ann Arbor MI 2023

Group Show: Women Artists, Rostrum 312, Chicago IL 2022

Solo Show: RAW WAVE, Homes Campus Gallery, Ann Arbor MI 2022

Solo Show: Color & Contour, StudioStudio, Ann Arbor MI 2021

Solo Show: Reflections on Winter, A2DC Ann Arbor MI, 2019-2020

Solo Show: Thoughts on Water; The Inn at Harbor Shores, St. Joseph MI, 2019

Solo Show; Ellen Sherman at Miss Kim; Ann Arbor MI, 2019

Group Show; REINCARNATE; Gallery and Market, Ann Arbor MI, 2018

Group Show; Ann Arbor Art Center's Straight Up Summer Series, Ann Arbor MI, 2018

Featured Artist, Ann Arbor Women's Center, Ann Arbor MI, 2018

Group Show; Threads Festival, Ypsilanti MI, 2017

Group Show; Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Gallery, Miami FL, 2016

Group Show; Perspectiv Miami, Macaya Gallery, Miami FL, 2016

Group Show; Square Foot Art Basel, Projects Gallery, Miami FL, 2015

Group Show; Ghost Gallery, Seattle WA, 2015

Group Show; Lines, Northville Art House, Northville MI, 2014

Group Show; Corpus Illuminata, Tangent Gallery, Detroit MI, 2013

Group Show; 6×6 Exhibition, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester NY, 2013

Solo Show; South Florida Artist Showcase, Art Center of South Florida, Miami FL, 201...