AN URBAN SKY
Dimensions variable. (each panel 14″x14″x 2″) oil on wood, newspaper, motor, steel, aluminum couplings, and/or paper mache tree, and/or sound.

Nine of the 16 individual panels are motorized. One side of the panels is highly textured and painted cool grey; another is midnight blue. The motor flips the panels over to suggest a changing skyline. The individual panels also can be re-configured to respond to the architecture of the space in which the piece is exhibited. The idea is to create an up-dated, modular version of a Baroque sky. (The piece can either be wall or ceiling mounted. A button can be included that recreates the sound of rain and thunder; and the piece also can be shown with a black or plain wall background).

Exhibition Venues
Cushing-Martin Gallery at Stonehill College, Easton, MA, Move Me: Kineticism in Art, 2008.
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, Gadgets, Gizmos and Games, (catalog), 2002.
University of Massachusetts, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA, New England/ New York/New Talent (Curator: Jeannette Ingherman), 2001.
The Dietrich Gallery, Allston, MA, The Dietrich Biennial, 2001.
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, MA, Constructions (miniature version), 2001.
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo, NY, NY, Venice 2001 (miniature version), 2001.
Trans Hudson Gallery, NY, NY, TransCultural Exchange: nomads forever, 2000.
Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art, Chestnut Hill, MA, 25 Years of Excellence, 1999.
District Fine Arts, Washington, DC, Mary Sherman: An Urban Sky, 1999.

Selected Press
Boston Globe, Boston, MA, (Sept. 19), “Collection of Contraptions: New Art Installation offers Fanciful Look at Gadgets,” Robert Knox, 2002.
The Daily Hampshire Gazette, Amherst, MA, (Mar. 13), “Up Next,” Christina L. Barber, 2001.
The Boston Herald, Boston, MA, (Jan. 18), “Arts in Brief,” 2001.
Arlington Advocate, Arlington, MA, (Sept. 20), “Center for the Arts Exhibit Explores Real and Imagined Constructions,” Lauren O’Neal, 2001.
Boston Magazine, Boston, MA, (Aug.), “Spotlight Art: Constructions,” Miles Unger, 2001.
The Boston Globe, Boston, MA, (Aug. 23), “Quick Hits: Art,” Christopher Muther, 2001.
The Boston Globe, Boston, MA, (Aug. 19), “Constructions. 2001.
boston.sidewalk.com, (Aug. 8), “Boston College: Celebrating 25 Years of Excellence in the Visual Arts,” Charles Guiliano, 1999.
The Boston Globe, Boston, MA, (July 30), “Boston College Show Showcases Faculty,” Christine Temin, 1999.