Michael Sherrill
Arts/Industry: Foundry, 2006
Michael Sherrill is a materials-based artist experimenting primarily in the media of metal, clay, and glass. He is interested in the intersection of humans and materials, in both handmade objects and the natural world.
His work has been exhibited at the Mint Museum (NC), Ferrin Gallery (MA), Hodges Taylor (NC), Connell Gallery (GA), The Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Dorothy McGae Gallery (GA), Western Carolina University (NC), New Morning Gallery (NC), Sun-Up Gallery (RI), Everson Museum of Art (NY), and The American Craft Museum (NY), among others.
Sherrill’s work is in several public collections including the Smithsonian’s Renwick Museum of American Craft (DC), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), the Mint Museum (NC), the Museum of Art and Design (NY), Corning Museum of Glass (NY), and Tacoma Glass Museum (WA), among others. Sherrill was selected for the White House collection, which traveled to venues around the United States. His piece, Incandescent Bottles, now resides in the Clinton Presidential Library and Museum.
As part of the International Ceramics Symposium, organized by the World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, Sherrill was one of ten artists invited in the summer of 2004 to participate in a residency creating outdoor sculptures to be placed permanently at the International Ceramic Museum (South Korea). He has been an artist-in-residence at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (ME), the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s Art/Industry at Kohler Co. (WI), and Museum of Glass (WA).
