Opening time：4pm, 12 April, 2015
Duration: 2015.04.12 -- 2015.04.22
Location: 3/F Exhibition Hall of Building 1, Today Art Museum

Sherman is exceptionally skillful in his unconventional partial observation and micro-view finding. For this purpose he has accumulated a huge reservoir of image collections . Totally carried away by this unique way of observation, he has been rewarded with new findings which evolve to abstract expressionism. His frequent involvement in product designs has inspired him to the creation of his unique Broad Brush Painting Structure, and the discovery of the mutually supplementary structures between Geometric Abstractionism and Lyric Abstractionism, Square and Straight Broad Brush Strokes and Flow Line Broad Brush Strokes, based on his understanding of the correlation between humanized nature and the pure nature.  In his works, the overall geometric compositions do not overlap completely with his broad brush. Rather, they are two sides of the same coin. Sometimes, he makes the geometric compositions with broad brush, which turns the whole picture into a broad brush structure(such a technique was more frequently seen in his earlier works); other times he alternates between square and straight broad brush strokes and flow line broad brush strokes or overlaps the two to create his overall geometric compositions, while broad brush structure simply serves as one component of the overall picture(such technique has been applied more often in his recent works). From a future development perspective, the latter promises greater potentials. There are many artists who use broad brushes, yet it is Sherman who has stood out among his peers by creating his unique artistic language structure and frame of mind, consisting of contradictory yet harmonious elements such as Ying and Yang, firmness and flexibility, reality and fancy, movement and motionlessness, sense and sensibility, and coldness and warmth.

Liu Xiaochun

Sherman Lin