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Portrait of the Artist as a Sucker, 2010 (3 of 9 panels

May 17 - 20, 2012

Toomey Tourell will be exhibiting my work in ArtPadSF at the Phoenix Hotel

          Thurs. May 17th
                6-8 - Opening Night Benefit Preview
                8-10 - Opening Benefit Party
          Friday though Sunday, May 18-20
                12-8 - General Admission

ArtPadSF
Phoenix Hotel 601 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109
Toomey Tourell 49 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA 94108

Upcoming Events in June

Save the Date - you might have to clone yourself

The Great Grandfather Club - uncovering truths, one ancestor at a time - June 16, 2012

ONE NIGHT ONLY - Saturday, June 16, 2012 - 6-11 pm

The Great Grandfather Club
Mission and 26th St, San Francisco, above the Union Bank

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COLLECT! June 16- July 14, 2012

Opening reception and bidding: Saturday, June 16, 2012 - 5-8 pm
Closing Reception and final bids: Saturday, July 14, 2012

Berkeley Art Center’s bi-annual silent/live auction and exhibition fundraiser, this year in celebration of Berkeley Art Center’s 45th anniversary! Featured artists include those from our acclaimed Artist Lecture Series and exhibitions over the past three years. Not to be missed!

Berkeley Art Center
1275 Walnut Street in Berkeley, California, 94709

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BAM/PFA Gala

Me with Berkeley Art Center Director, Suzanne Tan at the fabulous BAM/PFA Gala on May 1, 2012.

Square Cylinder Review

E Sher pages from The Art of the Book Catalog, 2012

I was included in a wonderful review of The Art of the Book show at the Seager Gray Gallery. It was written by David Roth and published on SquareCylinder.com.

Here is an excerpt from the article, The Art of the Book @ Seager Gray, which was published on 29 April 2012.

"What is it about books that make them so irresistible for artists? Is it because they introduce us to worlds we couldn’t otherwise know? Or is it the opposite: that certain proscriptive books activate a hard-wired instinct to subvert and rebel? Whatever it is, book art, in recent decades, has blossomed, and its practitioners, both in number and diversity, have multiplied like rhizomes. The form has attracted painters, sculptors and conceptual artists; poets, photographers, novelists and scientists; and, dedicated fine art printers who facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration.   

The so-called death of print?  If anything, it’s emboldened artists by bringing to the fore all of the qualities that have always made books compelling, namely, pictures, words, tactility, design and, yes, stories.  And stories, as we know, have long history of artistic embellishment, as illuminated manuscripts and their predecessors demonstrate.  Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray, in whose eponymously named gallery this annual museum-quality show takes place, have been keen observers of this activity, and in this exhibit they’ve brought together a wide range of book artists from the U.S. and abroad. There are 33 in all.

They include Brian Dettmer, a Georgia artist who makes fantastical sculptures out of surgically exposed antiquarian books; Richard Shaw, the legendary Bay Area maker of trompe l’oeil ceramic sculpture; multi-media artist Kota Ezawa; and East Bay filmmaker Elizabeth Sher whose “blog” — of sorts — consists of Torah-like scrolls filled with automatic writing in an alphabet she devised. You’ll also find the stunning Oliver Sacks-Abelardo Morell collaboration, The Island of Rota, about which I’ll say more, as well as works from Lisa Kokin. Her thread-based sculptures, which hang in mid-air, dispense almost entirely with the stuff of which books are made, save the words themselves."

Read more here.

The Art of the Book

The Art of the Book - April 17 - May 31, 2012

Opening Reception on Saturday, April 28, 6-8pm

Elizabeth Sher often combines humorous looks at today’s society with formal aesthetic concepts.

BLOG © 2012 offers an ironic hand crafted comment on today’s obsession with incessantly sharing the minute details of our existence.    This daily diary of Sher’s month at Can Serrat residency in Barcelona, Spain, is written with bamboo quill pen and French ink in a subconscious personal language.    The scroll handles reference the Hebrew torah; the case refers to the plain wooden box used for traditional Jewish burials.

Seager Gray Gallery
23 Sunnyside Ave., Mill Valley, CA

Berkeley Times

My work, Exposed (Red), was featured in a photo essay about the Berkeley Art Center member show, Shine, published in the Berkeley Times, February 9, 2012.