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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VICKI SHER – Nature Walk March 25 – April 19, 2005 Jessica Murray Projects is pleased to announce Nature Walk, an exhibition of new drawings by Vicki Sher opening Friday, March 25, 2005, with a reception from 6 – 8 pm. Vicki Sher explores the role of violence in nature and everyday life in over thirty drawings that range from suburban crime scenes to still lives of poisonous mushrooms, from children wandering beneath soaring helicopters to portraits of her grandparents in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Setting out these disparate elements, Sher’s image library investigates fear’s ability to illicit anxiety, dread and excitement. In Smile (2005) a prepubescent girl sports a souvenir T-shirt with a wolf. The girl’s likeness floats on the sheet of paper while the wolf’s image is printed on the white T-shirt. Drawn with a similar gesture, the girl and the wolf are rendered with equal attention -their smiling mouths bear teeth, and eyes squint beneath thick black hair. Somewhere between wild and tamed, nature fights to hold onto the girl’s undomesticated childhood. In Summit, (2004) a howling pack of wolves gather on a mountaintop framed in a blazing orange sunset. Recalling a rock album cover or illustration from a children’s story, Sher brings to the fore both danger and elation. Sher says “We can only control our peril so much. In the end, we live with its possibility, on an alternate plane, giving it as little power as we can. When we can, we fix whatever hazards lie before us, and control damage. We ignore the remote threat of a random act of violence because it is the sane thing to do.” UPCOMING Further details are available in Gallery Information.
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