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Mary Ellen Scherl Bio

Education:
B.F.A., Washington University School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO
 
Classes / Notable teachers:

  • National Academy of Design / Tony Antonious
  • The Art Center of Northern New Jersey/ Judith Weller
  • P.S. 183 / Ann Jon
  • Plein Air Workshop/ Stephen Dietemann
  • Art Students League / Hilary Holmes

Honors and Grants:

  • 2008 “Gold Medal” recipient for Sculpture, Hudson Valley Artist Association
  • 2008 Yoplait/Susan G. Komen ‘Champion’ for creating “Mamorial”
  • 2007 Fellowship by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts
  • Nominated and admitted to the Sculptors Guild
  • Newington Cropsey Foundation, Emerging Artists Program
  • Mortar Board Honor Society, Washington University

Bibliography:

Television:

  • Brian Lehrer Live CUNY Television, Artist interview, May 10, 2006
  • “Making a Difference” NBC Nightly News w/ Brian Williams April12, 2006
  • NJN News with Sara Lee Kessler
  • WIMG, Artist interview, May 22, 2007
  • “Le Jardin Des Artistes” Artist interview, BGVProductions

Print:

  • “Miami-born sculptor creates public art from private pain” The Miami Herald, December 2, 2009
  • “Making Lasting Monuments for Change” The Vail Daily, July 2008
  • “Sculpting a Legacy” Heal Magazine, cover story fall 2007
  • “Stories of Suffering and Survival, Told in Words and Cast in Resin” The New York Times, May 2, 2006
  •  “Casting Away the Pain” Women’s Times, October 2006
  • "Casts  Against Cancer” The Star Ledger, October 24, 2006
  • “Showing their Battle Scars” Tampa Tribune, May 18, 2006
  • “Hoping to Cast Out Breast Cancer” The Record, January 2, 2006
  • “The  Sculpture of Mary Ellen Scherl” The Artful Mind, July 2002
  • “Bronze Explores the Nature of Beauty” The Independent, July 2002
  • “Monumental Woman” The Women’s Times, July 2002
  • “Our Hero: Cancer Artist” Working Mother Magazine
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Catalogues:

  • International Sculpture Center at Grounds for Sculpture, Summer 2003
  • “Archival to Contemporary: Six Decades of the Sculptors Guild” Hillwood Art Museum, C.W. Post Campus, LIU, Winter 2006
  • Hillwood Art Museum, C.W. Post Campus, LIU, Winter 2006
  • Westchester County Courthouse, May 2006 Sculptors Guild “White Plains Tibbits Park” 2006-8

Professional Affiliations:

  • Sculptors Guild, President 2008-2010
  • National Sculpture Society
  • International Sculpture Center

Work Experience:

  • Founder/ President, Mamorial, A Non-profit Organization, 2005-present
  • V.P. Assoc. Creative Director, Young and Rubicam, Inc., NY 1980-1995
  • Art Director, Leo Burnett Co., Chicago, IL, 1978-1980

Exhibitions:

Juried Shows:

  • “Ready to Unveil” City Without Walls Newark, NJ
    Jurors: Chakaia Booker, Tom Moran, Sheila McCoy, Willie Cole, Sean Elwood
  • “Formative Lines: Working in Drawing and Sculpture” Governors Island, NY
    Jurors: Joanne Kleinberg, Rachel Liebowitz of the Drawing Center, NYC
  • Bridge Art Fair Miami, December 2008
  • Hudson Valley Artist Association 77th Annual Exhibition, Lyme Art Association Gallery, Old Lyme, CT June 27- August 2, 2008
  • “Get it Off Your Chest” Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, May 2005. Jurors: Christina Smith, Joanna Roche
  • “Portraits: Public and Private” National Sculpture Society, NYC, Spring 2003. Juried by the NSS
  • International Sculpture Center at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, Summer 2003. Jurors: Steve Nash, Carter Ratcliff, Helen Escobedo

Solo shows:

  • John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY May-July 2009
  • Ramapo College Library, Mahwah, NJ, November 2006
  • Storefront Artists Project, Pittsfield, MA, October 2006
  • Art/Basel/Miami, Miami Design District, hosted by Craig Robbins, December 2003
  • Stephentown Academy Gallery, Stephentown, NY, June 2002

Group shows:

  • Sculptors Guild Formative Lines: Working in Drawing and Sculpture
    Governors Island, NYC, Summer 2009
  • NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition, Visual Arts Center, Summit, NJ April-June 2009
  • Holycroft Foundation “The Sculpture Mile at Madison”
  • William Bendig, President/Curator, Summer 2008-2010
  • “BustED: Art About Breast Health” Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Sculptors Guild “IN-SITE” on Governors Island, NYC, Summer 2008
  • Sculptors Guild at Saks Fifth Avenue, June 2008
  • Sculptors Guild at “Supermarket”, Stockholm, Sweden, February 2008
  • “Sanctuary” Rupert Ravens curator, Fall 2007
  • “Newark Between Us” Rupert Ravens curator, Fall 2006
  • Sculptors Guild at Art Cologne, Spring 2007
  • “Archival to Contemporary: Six Decades of the Sculptors Guild” Hillwood Art Museum, Winter 2006
  • Sculptors Guild at Saks Fifth Avenue, June 2007
  • Lichtenstein Center, Pittsfield, MA, October 2006
  • “Body Image: Animus and Ardor” Tufts University, March 2006

On loan:

  • “The Contortionist”  Holycroft Foundation “The Sculpture Mile at Madison”
  • William Bendig, President/Curator, Summer 2008-2010
  • “The Contortionist” for the Sculptors Guild at Tibbit’s Park, City of White Plains, installed 2005-2008
  • “50DD” for the Sculptors Guild at Westchester County Courthouse, installed 2005

Permanent Public Installation:

  • Vanderbilt University, installed 2003

Commissions:

  • Elizabeth and Jon Van Merkensteijn

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