FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Reception: Wednesday, January 27th, 6 to 8 pm
Exhibition: January 27 to February 20, 2010
Location: 128 Rivington St., New York, NY
Sloan Fine Art, in conjunction with Greene Contemporary, is pleased to present
Feral by Heather Sherman in the project room. To preview the exhibition, click
here.
Three years ago, Heather Sherman purchased a mysterious bag of Kodak slides (meticulously organized and labeled "Puppies," "Vacation," "Christmas," etc.) from a thrift store in Florida. While buzzing and clicking through them in her 70's era slide projector, the artist found that her voyeuristic exploration of these people's lives exposed connections to, and elements of, her own past. In a photograph of lawn chairs, she saw the New Year's Eve spent drunk and alone, watching neighbors cheerfully light fireworks while quietly hating them. In a slide of two German Shepherds eating from a woman's hand, she remembered the day she witnessed her mother being attacked by the family dog. And in their fenced-off New Jersey backyard, she envisioned the golf course she grew up on, and regularly vandalized - a bored, rich, gay teenager acting out in the suburbs of Orlando, Florida. In
Feral Sherman projects her psychology onto these strangers and their memories, using them as a vehicle to confront her own personal history. Some of the stories are fictional, some autobiographical, but all reinforce the need for connectedness and feelings of alienation so rampant in, and integral to, suburbia.
Sherman earned her BFA at Ringling School of Design in Florida before fleeing to New York where she will complete her MFA at NYU this year.
Through his gallery Greene Contemporary, and now as an independent curator and consultant, Jonathan Greene strives to discover, encourage and present emerging and mid-career artists with a commitment and dedication to creating innovative work in a wide range of mediums. Heather Sherman's last solo exhibition,
Hair of the Dog, was at Greene Contemporary in May 2008. This is the first collaboration between Greene Contemporary and Sloan Fine Art.
Sloan Fine Art is located at 128 Rivington Street on the Lower East Side of New York City. Hours are Wednesday to Sunday, noon to 6, and by appt. To request more information, or high-resolution jpegs, contact Alix Sloan at alix@sloanfineart.com or 212.477.1140.