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