SHERROD’S NEW YORK CITY (JUNK*BOXES!)
-MYE*NEW YORK CITY/-..(JUNK*BOXES!)?...WERE THE BEGINNING...TO *GREATER-
*CONCERNS*/-..LATER*N’/-...*ROME/-...TO-(MYE*PRIX*DE*ROMA*.......*CO*STRUZI*ONES!(?)-..OF*WHICH/-..I*DID*SOME.. *104*WORK*PETIUMS!
-Prix de Romas’s-..(Roma*Construziones)-1985/-1986 (EXCERPT)
..SEE (HOME*PAGE/-..FOR MARK DORRRITY’S/-..*COMPLETE*STATEMENT!)
Evincing a junk sensibilty to painterly three-dimensional works fashioned from urban detritus, Philip Lawrence Sherrod asserts
how things are--while in same instant, the present tense of this
assertion slips, by way of the redolence of his found object appropriations, and oscillates into the past. A woman’s boot, a wheel from a shopping cart, a mangled toy helicopter, a cross- section of a beer can are among the myriad, trash out of which,
Sherrod’s work is composed. The objects themselves lose their identity, or more exactly, lose the literalness of their identity, as they function within Sherrod’s collages. In fact, these things almost seem to dematerialize before the viewer’s eyes--an effect which
itself bears out the effectiveness of the artwork.Oil paint, in any event, is his dominant medium, and representation his dominant mode. Whether it is a thick textured cityscape or cloud formation or the wilderness of a human face, these small urgently rendered rectangles mediate and control, by brute poetic will, the energy of his found objects--which, though potent, are adjunct to the project of his painted images. This said however,
it must be stressed that the two work to--gether--cooperating to open a world of manifold visual layers; and one that manages never to feel offhanded, satirial, or clich’e.
Mark Dorrrity
New Art International Annual -2008
SHERROD’S NEW YORK CITY (JUNK*BOXES!)
“2-*SELF*PORTRAITS/-..&*JOE*VARES/-..(!?)
SUPERT.-(GO*FLY*A*KITE!)..ALOHA*HAWAII(!)?
-LETTERS*HOME(!)”? MED: FOUND OBJECTS/-
&*2(PAINTED*OIL*PANELS!) SIZE: 19.5” X
20” DATE: 1981 ARTIST’S(C)COPYRIGHT
“OLE*WOMAN/-..&*(YOUNG*GIRL/-..WF’-
THE*/-YELLOW*POX!”(?) MED: FOUND OBJECT-
S/-(2 OIL/-PANELS!) SIZE: 21” X 14”
DATE: 1981 ARTIST’S(C)COPYRIGHT
“3*SELF-8PORTRAITS/-..ON (PANELED*WOOD!)”? “DO*I*DARE/-..*WRESTLE*THE**(CREATIVE*-
MED: OIL/-W. SIZE: 9.5” X 11” DATE: 1981 *DRAGON!)”? MED: OIL ON 4 PANELS/-..
ARTIST’S(C)COPYRIGHT &*FOUND*OBJECTS(!) SIZE: 18” X 18”
DATE: 1987 ARTIST’S(C)COPYRIGHT
(RIGHT*SIDE:)
“KID*PAMP/-..ON*RAMP/-..N’*JAPAN(!)”? “HELENA *DOING/-..ANY*DANCE/-..FOR*THE*..
MED: OIL/-C. SIZE: 9” X 10.5” DATE: 1976 MONEY*DOLLAR*LAUMA!”(?) MED: OIL/B.
ARTIST’S(C)COPYRIGHT SIZE: 10” X 12” DATE: 1972
ARTIST’S(C)COPYRIGHT
“2*GUYS/-..FROM*THE-(HATCHET*STATE!)?-..OR*N’*OPTICAL*REVERSE-../-..THE (STATE*/-..OF*-..
- *PANHANDLE*OKLAHOMA *(!))”? MED: OIL/-ON STREET*WOOD SIZE: 6” X 16”
- *DATE: 1981 ARTIST’S(C)COPYRIGHT
“5*PORTRAITS/-..(OF*/-..”LA DOL’CE(!)?-..OR*CAROL*WINEGARTEN!)?-..1*PORTRAIT/-..OF(*GIA-VIANI!?)- ..2*PORTRAITS/-..OF*ME(!)?..-ONE*PORTRAIT/-..OF*KING*OF*SPADE/-..*CARD /-?..&-
WF’*MARILYN**MONROE/-..*STRETCHED*OUT/-..WF’-(FULL*MUFF!)-..*SHOWING*(!)?..&*THE-..
(DEATH*FOOTBALL*HELMUT/-..WF’*ITALIAN*FLAG/-..&*LETTER*S!)”? MED: OIL*/-..ON PANELS.
..-INSERTED*N’*BOX*SHELVING. SIZE: 18” X 24” DATE: 1988 ARTIST’S(C)COPYRIGHT
LEFT*SIDE: “DO*I*DARE/-..*WRESTLE*THE**(CREATIVE*-
*DRAGON!)”? MED: OIL ON 4 PANELS/-..
&*FOUND*OBJECTS(!) SIZE: 18” X 18” DATE: 1987
ARTIST’S(C)COPYRIGHT
“3*GUYS(-SELF*PORTRAITS!)?-..&*THREE*(SOFT*?)>>BALLS!!!-..HEADED*/-..FOR*THE-(*GALL*UV’/-
..-*BLAME*!)”? MED: OIL/-ON PANEL*WOOD. 24” X 30” DATE: 1978
ARTIST’S(C)COPYRIGHT
“THE*MAN/-..WF’*A/-(CAN*OPENER!)?..-”DO*I*DARE/-..(OPEN*A*CAN*/-..UV’*WORMS!)””?
MED: OIL/-..&*FOUND*OBJECTS/-..ON WOOD. SIZE: 23” X 22” DATE: 1984
ARTIST’S(C)COPYRIGHT
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