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4th Louisiana Biennial: National Exhibition

January 28, 2017 Sherman Finch Contemporary Art, Exhibitions

Lecture: Thursday, January 26th 5 pm TVAC 103

Opening Reception and Awards Presentation: 6 pm

The Louisiana Biennial is the School of Design’s fourth national juried exhibition. This is a multi-media show for two and three-dimensional works, as well as video and installation, works exploring any theme. Through a nationally advertised call for entries, The School of Design received over 175 artist submissions and a total of over 800 artworks from across the United States. Continue Reading →

Creators Project features Billboard Creative

January 1, 2017 Sherman Finch Contemporary Art, Exhibitions

Billboard Creative gets a write up in “Creators Project”. Check out some of the articles and work by the other participating artists.

Los Angeles commuters are getting an on-the-house arts education for the month of December. The Billboard Creative (TBC) filled the city’s ubiquitous roadside advertisements together with the help of nearly 50 artists.

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Bill Board Creative – Los Angeles

November 29, 2016 Sherman Finch Contemporary Art, Exhibitions

The Billboard Creative (TBC) is a non-profit organization that aims to connect artists with mass audiences. In highlighting an international selection of artists and artworks within the Los Angeles community, TBC hopes to broaden the reach of public art, especially for those whom traditional art exhibitions have proven inaccessible. Above all, the core principle is to create a democratic approach to contemporary art. Continue Reading →

iDEAS 16 International Exhibition – sponsored by iDMAa

November 12, 2016 Sherman Finch Contemporary Art, Curatorial, Exhibitions

Though I mostly participate in exhibitions as an artist, from time to time I take on the role of curator or co-curator. During this past October, I was fortunate to get the chance to be lead curator with the International Digital Media Arts Association for their IDEAS Exhibition in 2016. It was a great event, 32 amazing artists showing in the Laird Norton Building on Winona State University’s campus in Winona, Minnesota. Two other co-curators EJ Herczyk and Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo helped in the curation of the show. There were 8 judges including Christian Paul and Dena Grigar. Thank you to everyone including Davin Heckman, Jeff Ritchie, and Winona State who helped to make this happen.

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Artprize 2016 Grand Rapids, MI

November 12, 2016 Sherman Finch Contemporary Art, Exhibitions, hybrid art

ArtPrize is a radically open, independently organized international art competition and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

ArtPrize is recognized as the most-attended public art event on the planet according to The Art Newspaper, and was recently highlighted in The New York Times’ 52 Places To Go in 2016.

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Governors Island Art Fair – 9th Annual

November 11, 2016 Sherman Finch Contemporary Art, Exhibitions

Governors Island Art Fair – 9th Annual

This September I showed with 100 artists in New York City at the Governors Island, an Island that sits right between Brooklyn and Manhattan. The fair is organized by a nonprofit known as the 4heads and is made up of singular rooms along Colonel’s Row. Each room showcases painting, photography, sculpture, installation, video, and sound art. Continue Reading →

Roswell Museum for the “Currents New Media” 2016

November 11, 2016 Sherman Finch Contemporary Art, Exhibitions, hybrid art, Interaction Design, Research

This summer my work was exhibited at the Roswell Museum & Art Center as part of the Currents New Media Festival in 2016.
This was such an amazing experience. The Roswell Museum is a hidden Jewell to the state, filled with incredibly gifted contemporary artists from all over New Mexico. Here is a break down of both venues.

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Washington Post for the “Please Touch” show at the Target Gallery.

October 11, 2016 Sherman Finch Contemporary Art, Exhibitions, hybrid art, Publications

Nice write up featuring the “Please Touch” Show at the Target Gallery just outside Old North Town next to Washington DC. The article was published both online and in the newspaper.

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Recent article featuring “Once a Boy” on Hypertext magazine.

September 11, 2016 Sherman Finch Contemporary Art, Publications

A recent article featuring a slightly older body of work called “Once a Boy” fin Hypertext Magazine . Here is a quote from the article. If you are interested check out the link in this post or go to current work.
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Drawing Lines Across Mediums, The Drawing Center, NYC

March 22, 2016 Sherman Finch Design

A Second Look: March 22 – April 22, 2016
Opening Reception on March 23, 6-9pm
Site:Brooklyn, NYC, NY

Drawing Lines Across Mediums is an exhibition of drawings that reflect the ambitious, innovative and contemporary in drawing today. Curated by Olga Valle Tetkowski, Head of Exhibitions, The Drawing Center NYC.

Article on HyperText online Magazine

February 22, 2016 Sherman Finch Exhibitions

Once a Boy is a series of paintings that explores the lost tradition of a boy’s initiation into manhood through masculine rites and rituals. The images from this series are taken from an old shooting manual once owned by my grandfather, who used it to teach my uncle about responsibility surrounding guns. I started this project as a young man in my twenties, when I reflected on my own upbringing and started to question the blurry lines that separate boyhood innocence from adult responsibility. In my own approach I try and look at the gun as a “ritual right” similar to the times when boys where allowed to leave the safety of the tribe and go with their fathers to hunt and gather.

To read more of the artist go to hypertextmag.com/2016/02/19/once-a-boy-paintings-by-sherman-finch/

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Governors Island Art Fair – 9th Annual