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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.

SCA - Blue

February 9 - March 17

Come and view some of my new work. The show is up and runs through March 17.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts
6780 Depot Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472

NEA - Big Read Blog

My book, Arbres Arrencats d'Ametles (Uprooted Almond Trees), is included in the article, 15 Years with the San Francisco Center for the Book on the NEA's Big Read Blog.

Check it out on the Big Read Blog.

Shine at BAC

December 17 - January 29
Shine

Opening reception on Saturday, December 17 from 5:30-7:30pm.

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

Two Upcoming Shows

October 27 - December 3
Shoes

Opening reception on Thursday, October 27 from 6-7:30pm.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 6780 Depot Street Sebastopol CA 95472


















November 30 - December 2011
5x5: Invitational

Opening reception on Wednesday, November 30 from 4-6pm.

Artists and public figures from across the nation have been invited to create 5-inch square works of art. Their creations will be for sale, with proceeds benefiting the Museum.

Westmont Museum of Art, 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108

MBS Traveling Exhibit

This year, my book, Mollusca Gastropoda Fever, is in the Miniature Book Society's annual traveling exhibit.

It will stop in Orange, CA, Ann Arbor, MI, North Texas State University in Denton, Dublin, Ireland and finally to the MBS Archive in the Lilly Library at Indiana University.

The stop in Dublin (7/29-8/1/11) was for the annual MBS Grand Conclave, a gathering of all their members.

SFCB 15th Anniversary Exhibition

September 15 - November 25, 2011
SFCB 15th Anniversary Exhibition

Opening Reception September 15 from 6-8

Come see my newly finished book, Arbres arrencats d'amenthles.

San Francisco Center for the Book
300 De Haro Street San Francisco CA 94103

Keeping an Eye on Surveillance

September 10 - October 22
Keeping an Eye on Surveillance

Opening Reception September 10 from 6-9

Look for my new installation with video, Paranoimal. I am excited to once again collaborate with artist Brooke Holve.

The Performance Art Institute
575 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Artist Talk and Poetry Reading

September 9
Artist Talk and Poetry Reading with Maw Shein Win

Sign Language runs from August 12 - September 11, 2011

Mythos Fine Art and Artifacts
1747 Solano Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94707

New Book Exhibitions

I have work in two new shows that open in the middle of June.

June 18 - August 7
BOOKWORKS: Triennial Member's Exhibition
The opening reception is on Saturday, June 18 from 2-4pm

San Francisco Public Library Skylight Gallery, Sixth Floor
100 Larkin Street, SF, CA 94102



June 16 - July 23
Bibliophoria II
Opening reception is Thursday, June 16 from 6-7:30pm.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts
6780 Depot Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472

In Material: Conversations on Qualities of Materiality by Satri Pencak

"From the work of three artists emerges a conversation about shared experiences expressed in different styles, media, and techniques. In Material, an exhibition at Quicksilver Mine Co. Gallery in Forestville, CA, features the work of Brooke Holve, Susan Field, and Elizabeth Sher....The culminating body of work is distinctive and yet self-reflective, showing unique and individual styles but also their connections, synchronicities, and eventual creation of new work based on their meetings, musings and conversations." Satri Pencak, Independent Curator and former Program Director of the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. The full review at www.satripencak.com

Conversation with Liz, Brooke and Susan

Please come by the Quicksilver Mine Co. in Forestville for a conversation with artists, Brooke Holve, Susan Field and Elizabeth Sher. Thursday, April 7 at 7pm.

In Material Quicksilver Mine Co. Opening

Lots of folks at the opening of In Material Sat. at Quicksilver Mine Co. I am pleased with the installation and the work of my fellow artists, Brooke Holve and Susan Field.

The Art of the Book

Two of my new books, Arbres arrencats d'ametles and 10 Views of Mt. Doggie, will be in the upcoming Art of the Book show at Donna Seager Gallery, March 18 through April 30, 2011. The reception for the artists will be held Saturday, March 26 from 6 to

8pm.

I'm honored to have been included in this show since it's inception. There is always a fabulous selection of books. Please come by and take a look.