Devlin Hall 418
Telephone: 617-552-4295
Email: mary.sherman@bc.edu
Current: Foundation Drawing
Previously:
Drawing II: Tonal and Perspective Drawing
Painting I
Painting II
Painting V
Figure Drawing
Advanced Figure Drawing
Senior Seminar
Drawing/Another Dimension and Independent Studies
Office of International Summer Abroad Program: Berlin (core Studio Art class)
Transdisciplinary Art Forms
The Intersection of Sensorial Processes in Making and Understanding Artworks
World Cultures
Comtemporary Art Practices
Artistic Robotics
Research
The Combination of Technology and Fine Art
Glass Fusing Techniques: Pilchuk School of Glass (Profession Artist-in-Residence Program)
Mary Sherman’s background includes a strong academic training, primarily, in painting from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery and classes with Erich Huber of the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna. More recently, though, her work has evolved beyond the canvas into time and space with kinetic installations, often, inspired by paintings. For this work, she uses technology (micro-processing, robotics, computational devices, scientific data and the like) alongside the emotionally fraught materials of fine art media, turning static installations into immersive, experiential performances that compose – and, then, alter – the architecture in which they are installed. Along with her art work, she is also the founder and director of the international non-profit arts organization TransCultural Exchange, the former interim Associate Director of MIT’s Art, Culture and Technology program (ACT) and a curator and art critic with over 30 years of broad, in-depth, and diversified experience in the arts and humanities. (See below.)
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Curatorial Projects (All Selected, roughly of the last 10 years; complete listing attached)
Exhibitions Bibliography (All Selected, roughly of the last 10 years; complete listing attached)
(All Selected, roughly of the last 10 years; complete listing attached)
Books
Articles and Book Reviews
Note from 1988 – 2003: Mary Sherman served an art critic, publishing over 400 art reviews, book reviews, interviews and news pieces, starting as the chief art critic for The Chicago Sun-Times and later as a regular contributor of art criticism to the Boston Herald, Boston Globe, Art New England and ARTnews, among others. Additionally, served as a regular contributor of articles on architectural competitions for the academic journal Competitions.
Selected Catalog Essays (All Selected, roughly of the last 10 years; complete listing attached)
Conference Papers, Talks (All Selected, roughly of the last 10 years; complete listing attached)