This blog is dedicated to helping fund the upcoming Stuart Sherman retrospective titled "Stuart Sherman: Nothing up my Sleeve" opening November 8th, at Participant Gallery 253 E Houston Street New york, curated by artist Jonathan Berger. Based on the work of the widely unknown, remarkable artist Stuart Sherman, Nothing Up My Sleeve will encompass relevant concerns which permeate Sherman's work including transubstantiation, perception, trompe l'eoil, illusion and magic, fiction, and alias and persona--exploring these themes as they manifest in the work of other artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. From Harry Houdini to Andy Kaufman, from Eileen Gray to Carol Bove, the artists included in the exhibition span a 200-year period, representing a diverse range of practices and relationships to art and culture, focusing on the notion of artists’ use of various forms of deception, which they are able to justify through the aspirations of their work. In doing so, these artists are able to revise the negative stigma attached to the act of lying, questioning the assertion that 'the truth' is fact, and instead engaging it as a subjective reality.
A complete list of the artists included in the show:
Stuart Sherman
Harry Houdini
Tony Clifton (the Andy Kaufman character/discovery)
Carol Bove
Matthew Branon
Site Projects
James Lee Byars
Super Studio
Eileen Gray
Katarina Burin
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