Kathleen Mcsherry

"With a longstanding appreciation for the abandoned and obscure, Kathleen McSherry's approach to sculpture can be described as archaeological. Her work references multiple strata of American culture, refusing to be tethered to a singular aesthetic. Her choice of composition and media are benefited through their familiarity, giving the chimeric aspects of her sculpture a sense of uncanniness, yet wonder. This observational quality in McSherry’s work is self-evident; her media is as much the refuse of modern culture as it is the thematic components of our everyday lives.


McSherry’s unique deconstructive techniques elevate the mundane and forgotten, rather than focusing on the traditionally beautiful. The act of freely altering and misusing the intended purposes of her media allows her a wide range in the field of irony. Deforming the personified and anthropomorphizing the lifeless gives even the most unsettling of her sculptures an almost religious quality, no doubt influenced by the religious tropes McSherry references. In this regard, her sculptures serve as altars to alteration and the art of assemblage, where the bodily remains of a child’s doll could just as well be reused for their inherently unnerving attributes as for t...

BFA School of Visual Arts, NYC

2018 Ellarslie Open 35, Trenton - NJ

2018 New Hope Art League Juried Art Show

2018 Artsbridge Members Show- Prallsville Mill- NJ

2018 Grand Salon Show- Greenpoint Gallery - Brooklyn NY

2017 Artavita Online Art Contest- Certifcate of Excellence

2017 New Hope Art League - Fall Members Show - Bucks County, PA.

2017 The Witching Hour -A Juried Halloween Art Show- Phoenix Art Supply, Bucks County, PA.

2017 Stover Mill Juried Show - Bucks County, PA.

2017 22nd Annual Art Ability at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital , Malvern, PA 2nd Prize

2017 88th Juried Art Show @ Phillip's Mill - Bucks County, PA.2017 River Queen Gallery - Lambertville, NJ

2017 National Juried Exhibition - Lancaster County Art Assn., Lancaster, PA
2017 BWAC- Wide Open 8 - National Juried Exhibition - Red Hook, Brooklyn

2017 YICCA - International Contest of Contemporary Art

2016 21st Annual Art Ability Exhibition Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, PA

2016 Peculiar Stuff - River Queen Gallery - Lambertville, NJ

2016 Heads of State - Hamilton Street Gallery - Bound Brook, NJ

2016 BWAC- Fall Juried Art Show - Red Hook, Brooklyn

2016 BWAC- Really Affordable Art Show - Red Hook, Brooklyn

2016 New Hope Historical Society Jurie...