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Tan, Sherri (artist)

 Person

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

[Holocaust Project Proposal] / Nicastri, Joe; Tan S., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-05718-5825
Scope and Contents

Consists of artist's personal statement of purpose for the Holocaust proposals and thirteen pages with descriptive text and brown ink drawings devoted to specific projects. Themes include Hitler's Eyes, Tunnel of Hope, Hanging Books, The Medical Block and Monument for Oklahoma City. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Crumpled White Note / Tan, Sherri., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-01235-1266
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The book is a narrative story about a woman who has a break-up of a love affair. Each page has polaroid photographs depicting punctuated, typewritten text or images collaged over phrases accompl with automatic writing. The typed text of the photographs alludes to aspects of breathing, e.g. to escape she began to breathe deeply, with each measured breath, deliberately exhaled, the pace of her breathing, she sighed deeply loudly exhaled etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

[Untitled] / Sherri Tan., 1991 - 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-01506-1539
Scope and Contents

The collaged text on this sculpture is reminescent of the work of Jiri Kolar. The incorporation of the found steel tool that gives a visual impression of a couple copulating with a dried flower framed next to tool imparts an erotic theme to the work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991 - 1993

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