Stuart Sherman

Stuart Sherman's influential art practice defies classification. Celebrated as an avant-garde performer, he also worked in film, video, and other visual arts, in addition to writing plays and poems. Sherman was an iconoclastic builder and manipulator of mass-produced bric-a-brac; he used an intuitive logic to purposefully transform objects into rhetorical questions. He developed these manipulations into an idiosyncratic performance style that was quick-paced and conceptually witty. The culminating tableaux, featuring Sherman and disassembled or repurposed objects, evoke Rene Magritte, Buster Keaton, and Samuel Beckett.   full biography

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1975, 28:47 min, b&w, sound
 
1976, 45 min, color, sound
 
1976, 31 min, b&w, sound
 
1978, 29:40 min, color, sound
 
1978-1986, 50 min, b&w and color, silent and sound, 16 mm film on video
 
1980, 38 min, color, sound
 
1980, 32 min, color, sound
 
1986-94, 25 min, color, sound
 
Berlin (West)/Andere Richtungen
1986, 6 min, color, sound
 
Son of Scotty and Stuart
1993, 5 min, color, sound
 
Bill Rice's Beer Garden
1994, 5 min, color, sound
 
Me and Joe
1994, 4 min, color, sound
 
8 Eggs
1994, 5 min, color, sound
 
1987-93, 18 min, color, sound
 
Gray Matter
1987, 1 min, color, sound
 
Video Walk
1987, 1 min, color, sound
 
Don't Hang Up I'm Freezing
1993, 4 min, color, sound
 
A Glass of Fish
1993, 2 min, color, sound
 
Cheers!
1993, 2 min, color, sound
 
Black and White & Grain
1993, 1 min, color, sound
 
The Leap
1993, 3 min, color, sound
 
1989, 52:48 min, color, sound
 
1994, 5:45 min, color, sound
 
Newsbreak
1994, 3:47 min, color, sound
 
Holy Bible
1994, 3:25 min, color, sound
 
Ah Choo!
1994, 39 sec, color, sound
 
c.1979, 20 min, color, sound
 
 

Titles with or about Stuart Sherman

 
 
1975, 30 min, b&w, silent
 
 

See also

 
 
1975, 30 min, b&w, silent