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According to Elizabeth Sherman, Director of the Women in Government Program at Boston College, Bolling has lost support from Boston's Black community because he is not progressive enough. "He did not support Mel King and [a move to rename the Roxbury district] Mandela. He really has not done any political log-rolling," she said...
This floor of the exhibit is dominated by bizarre and grotesque "fairy-tale scenes" in which Sherman creates her fullest narratives, single images which bring forth a dream or fantasy. These disturbing images feature Sherman as a variety of different characters, including an Arabian prince, a deformed pig-like beast and a drowned corpse. Set in an eerie and frightening landscape of rocks and gel lighting, these fairy tales jump from Sherman's imagination into...
...past year, Sherman has begun to lessen her presence in her work. Her new subject is food. One piece, which she privately calls "Bulimia at the Beach," depicts a repulsive mixture of vegetable soup and crushed cupcakes. Sherman appears only in a reflection in the mirrored sunglasses on the sand. In her most recent photographs, Sherman is completely absent from the tableau. She has surrendered her "canvas" entirely to a mixture of hotdogs and wind-up toys in one, and a mask full of decayed dog food in another...
...disturbing are these images for Sherman, images which often depict her own death? "I kind of like them," she says. "The grosser they are, the more I'm entertained by them. Sherman doesn't understand post-modern, feminist and semiotic analyses of her work and avoids over-intellectualizing her work. She says she simply wants to "shake people up, to make them really think about wanting to own a work...
...Sherman likes to keep moving forward, to constantly change her work. "I don't like to repeat myself," she says. She plans to go back to smaller size works and continue to restrain using herself as a subject. When asked what it feels like to be so young and have achieved so much success, Sherman responds with characteristic unpretentiousness. She says she tries to keep thing in perspective by separating herself from the artist who gets so much publicity. "I just don't feel like I'm the intellectual behind it all," she says...