Julia Sherman
Julia Sherman mines folk traditions, feminist theory, questions of labor and production and a range of personal anxieties to create tableaus of fantasy, philosophy and interrogation. Collaborative, research-based projects inspire experimentation with an ever-expanding range of media. Her symbolic objects and aestheticized documentation interweaves a type of autobiographical journalism obsessed with the story of making - rather than the sanctity of objects themselves. This methodology has inspired others to question, "where is the art?" A provocation that strikes at the heart of her practice as intellectual pursuits veer in and out of the realm of what we comfortably qualify as "art."
Self-Portrait as Discacled Carmelite #11 Nun
(Nun Doll Museum, Indian River MI)
Self-Portrait as Discacled Carmelite #12 Nun
(Nun Doll Museum, Indian River MI)