Scott Sherk

Education

1975 -- Haverford College. B.A. with Honors in Fine Arts

1976-77--New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture

1980 -- University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, M.F.A.

Selected One-Man Shows

1996- Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA

1995 - Cantor Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA ,1995

1991-93 -- Morris Arboretum, The Official Arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, curated by Edward Fry

1990 -- Frank Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg College

1987 -- Leslie Cecil Gallery, New York, NY

1986 -- Leslie Cecil Gallery, New York, NY

1985 -- Leslie Cecil Gallery, New York, NY

1984 -- Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada

Installations

1997- "HorizonLines", in collaboration with Pat Badt, Kim Foster Gallery, NY, NY

1997- “Hut View”, in collaboration with Pat Badt, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

1996 - “Polite Sources”, Frank Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg College

1992-93--"Sighting the Gallery", Artists Space, New York, NY

1992 -- "Reception", Dooley Le Capellaine , New York, NY

1991 -- Installation, Morris Arboretum, The Official Arboretum of the Commonwealth of PA, curated by Edward Fry

1988 -- "Project 2", Art at the Anchorage, Creative Time, Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage

1987 -- "Columns" Memorial Arch, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Group Shows

1995 - “Contradictory Conclusions” The Gallery at Northampton, curated by Rhonda Wall

1994 -- "Pat Badt and Scott Sherk", Tezukayama College, Nara, Japan

1992 -- "Gallery" Dooley Le Cappellaine, New York, NY

1991-2 -- "Hard Choices/ Just Rewards", Blair Art Museum, Hollidaysburg, PA travels through state of PA

1991 -- "Forms of Allusion" Soho Center for the Visual Arts, NY, NY.

1991 -- "Lumia", Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA

1991 -- "Light and Shadow", Regeneration, Easton, PA

1989 -- Leslie Cecil Gallery, NY,NY

1988-89- "Bearings", Parsons School of Design, Princeton University School of Architecture

1988 -- Big Sculpture For Big Spaces-- Art at the Anchorage, Creative Time, Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage

1987 -- Leslie Cecil Gallery, NY, NY

1987 -- Installation (site specific) Memorial Arch, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY

1987 -- Lehigh Valley Arts Project, Easton, PA

1986 -- "Art and Illusion", Anchorage Museum of Art and History, Anchorage, Alaska

1986 -- "Agostini, Sherk, Silver, Cairns, Gagnier", Leslie Cecil Gallery, NY, NY.

1986 -- "Shadows and Projections", McGoverns Bar, New York, NY

1986 -- Leslie Cecil Gallery, NY, NY

1986 -- Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA

1986 -- "Faculty Exhibition", Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA

1986 -- "Sculptors Drawings", Nohra Haime Gallery, NY, NY

1985 -- Leslie Cecil Gallery, NY, NY

1985 -- "Light/Heavy Light", U.C. Davis Memorial Union Gallery, Davis, CA

1985 -- Installation, Sculpture Center, NY, NY_

1984 -- "On Relief", 80 Washington Square East Galleries, NY, NY

1984 -- "Drawings", Sculpture Center, NY, NY

1984 -- Leslie Cecil Gallery, NY, NY

1984 -- "WaterFront Art", Federal Court House, NY, NY

1984 -- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1983 -- Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association, Brooklyn, NY

1983 -- "Selections 23", The Drawing Center, New York, NY

1983 -- "Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Exhibition", Brooklyn, NY

1982 -- "Sculpture/300", Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Grants

1995 - Summer Research Grant, Muhlenberg College

1993-4 Academic Sabbatical in Nara, Japan

1991 -- PA Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Grant

1990 -- Faculty Research Grant, Muhlenberg College

1989 -- New York State Council on the Arts, Project Grant

1989 -- Faculty Research Grant, Muhlenberg College

1988 -- Creative Time, Inc., Art at the Anchorage project funding

1988 -- Materials for the Arts, New York, NY

1987 -- Faculty Research Grant, Muhlenberg College

1982 -- Artist-in-Schools Grant, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

1980-81 -- Artist-in-Schools Grant, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

Awards

Class of ‘32 Research Chair, 1996-7

I.D. The International Design Magazine Environments Award, 1993

Hoffman Research Fellowship, 1992-93

Robert C. Willaims Award for Scholarly and Creative Excellence, 1988

First Prize-- Artemide Lighting Design Competition, 1987

Commissions

1989-90-- Morris Arboretum, The Official Arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

1983 -- Pacific Parks, Santa Monica, CA

1981 -- Thomas Dougherty, Pittsburgh, PA

Bibliography

ArtNews, "Gabo's Progeny" by Cynthia Nadelman, December 1987.

The New York Times, Review, Michael Brenson,

March 29, 1985

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Review, Victoria Donahoe, October 29, 1987

Art and Illusion, Exhibition Catalogue, Ann M. FitzGibbons, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska, 1986.

Light/Heavy Light, Contemporary Shadow Use in the Visual Arts, Frances Butler, Poltrone Press, 1985.

Gallery, September/October, 1984, Southern Alberta Art Gallery.

ArtNews, "Waterfront Art", by Sara Cecil, September, 1984.

American Craft, "Shadow in the Visual Arts, by Frances Butler, February/March 1985

Phoenix, "Arch Exhibit Spins..." October, 1987

The Morning Call, "Valley meets New York", October 29, 1987

The Express, "Psst! Keep the show quiet", October 23, 1987

The New York Times, "Bridge as art gallery", June 10, 1988

Channel 2, Tokyo, "New York Underground", June 1988

The Princeton Packet, "New on the design scene...", July 15, 1988

The Express, "Arts Project takes show on road", April, 22, 1988

The Morning Call, Art on the Cutting Edge at Open Space Show, December 8, 1988

The Morning Call, "Creative Differences, couple share art world but not style", November 18, 1990.

The Morning Call, "Peripheral Ghosts come out in Sherk's sculptures, November 18, 1990.

The Morning Call, "At Open Space, three sculptors shed light on their work", May 18, 1991

The Morning Call, "A collaboration of a different nature", July 14, 1991

Philadelphia Inquirer, "A myth molded in metal at Morris Arboretum", August 9, 1991

Arts Alive, "The Chase:Daphne and Apollo...a unique sculpture exhibit", October, 1991

Altoona Mirror, "Pennsylvania artists exhibit award-winning art",January 16, 1992

I.D. The International Design Magazine, The 39th Annual Design Review, "Sighting the Gallery", July August 1993

The Morning Call, “Contradictory Conclusions is study in contrasts”, Sunday, March 26, 1995

Philadelphia Inquirer, “Haverford exhibit explores visual sensation”, Sunday, June 4, 1995

Sculpture Magazine, review by Tom Csaszar, September-October, 1995


Scott Sherk

sherk@muhlenberg.edu