Alexandra N Sherman’s installations feature found and created objects that shift meaning through context and juxtaposition. Alexandra grew up and worked in the antiques business, which inspired her love of art and the decorative arts. In “Feet to the Fire” she uses her collage practice to call attention to the climate crisis. Her collages on ledgers are literal reckonings of our past and present and expressions of the weight of her grief over the environmental changes we are witnessing.

 

The antique ledgers serve as a historical snapshot of the mundane, such as food purchases and inventories. By working atop these ledgers, Sherman collaborates with people of the past and builds another layer of human history.  Each collage, featuring the Earth in various states of orbital stability, employs intricately cut paper from a multitude of sources and time periods to create surreal scenes. The Earth is represented by antique illustrations and vintage globes that serve as a record of history, empires, and colonization.

 

About the Artist

Sherman has an MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in painting and trained in ateliers L’Eclat De Verre and Gold Leaf Studios where she studied framing and the art of cartonnage. Sherman has also worked as a curator and taught many classes in a range of mediums. She has acted as a mentor for high school students in the Strathmore x Wooley Mammoth Arts and Social Justice Program. Her work has been shown nationally and in Argentina and Qatar. She is currently based in Washington, D.C.

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