American artist Mary Sherman's residency at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts begins the 11th of May and ends the 13th of July. Mary is the director of TransCultural Exchange in Boston. She has executed many international cross-culture projects, which now dot the world landscape, including "The Tile Project," here at the Kuandu Museum. Mary Sherman is fascinated with the physicality of paint – as opposed to its illusionary qualities. In her work, she explores the tension between painting's sensuality and the mechanical, hard-edged qualities of electronic technology and 3-dimensional form to create abstract works that push the definition of traditional painting into new directions. Each of her exhibitions becomes a conceptual springboard for a site-specific, often viewer activated work. Her works are created to respond to the historical, physical and/or psychological space in which they are experienced. Frequently, she works collaboratively – both to find the necessary expertise for her works and to continue to stimulate new ways of understanding and expanding upon the possibilities available to art. During her stay at KdMoFA Mary Sherman will lead TNUA students from numerous disciplines in a workshop entitled "Here, There and Everywhere." The workshop will conclude with an exhibition of the class' collaborative works, opening July 11th and running through August 31st.

Mary Sherman 1957 born in America Education New York University, NY, MFA Boston College, Chestnut Hill, BA. Solo Exhibition 2007 Mechanical Universe (collaboration with Rudi Punzo, Italy), Boston Cyberarts Festival, Boston, MA, US 2005 The Tile Project, The Peace Garden, Washington, DC, US, Permanent installation, The Pauline A. Shaw School, Boston, MA, US Permanent tile installation Group Exhibition 2007 Americaura, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 2007 Art 20, Startgalerie, Leoben, Austria 2006 Leonard's Codex Art Assemblage, Williamsburg, NY, US 2006 Ornament, Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA, US 2006 Art 20, Portrait Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2006 Boston Open Studios Coalition Exhibition, Boston City Hall, MA, US 2006 Artists from Euro-America Seven Countries on a Trip to China, Harbin International Conference, Exhibition and Sports Center, China 2006 VI. Academy of Contemporary Art Castle of Carei, Romania 2006 Quarantine Island, Izmir, Turkey 2006 dimensions variable:site fixed, Cambridge Arts Council, MA, US 2005 International Invitational, Artemis Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey 2005 Optional Stop, Associazione Culturale Citta Studio, Milan, Italy 2005 The Tile Project, Destination: The World. 22 World Sites (Organizer of this Project): Sarajevo's Academy of Fine Arts, New Zealand's Porirua City's Pataka Museum, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, NYC's Mercer Park, Spain's Ethnological Museum, Toronto's Wallace Emerson Park, Taipei's Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Fine Art Museum of Ho Chi Minh City, Istanbul's Artemis Art Center, Berlin's Bar of Modern Art, etc.

More Info: www.transculturalexchange.org/tileproject 2005 Inviting, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, US 2005 Painting Now：Selections from the 2004 Mass. Cultural Council Artists