Sherman Fleming
Biography
B.F.A. Virginia Commonwealth University
M.F.A. Hartford Art School
Teaches Graduate Seminar in Performance Studies. Program Manager, Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA. Select Solo Exhibitions: Big Rebus Paintings, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia,(1990) Watercolors, International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC (2001);Codewords, VIAP Galerie, Heerlen, The Netherlands,(2006). Selected Performances: OLYMPIC, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas, (2009);Pretending To Be Rock, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (2003); UN/SUB: De Jacht op Zwarte Piet,Maatschappij Arti Et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (1995);Underground Structures, Duke University, Durham, (1989).
Publications
Stiles, Kristine, Uncorrupted Joy: Art Actions, History, and SocialValue._
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
Warr, Tracey ed., Jones Amelia ed. The Artist's Body (Themes and Movements). Phaidon Press. 2000.
Schimmel, Paul ed. OUT OF ACTIONS: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 - 1979. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson Ltd. London. 1998.
Riggs, Thomas, ed., St. James Guide to Black Artists, St. James Press. 1997.
Powell, Richard J., Black Art & Culture in the 20th Century. Thames & Hudson Ltd. London. 1997.
Driskell, David ed. African-American Visual Aesthetics: A Post-Modernist View. Smithsonian Press. 1995.
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object.1994.
Carr, C. On Edge: Performance at the End of the 20th Century. Wesleyan University Press. 1993.
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