cindy sherman

Artist: Cindy Sherman Born: 1954 Glen Ridge, NJ and raised in suburban Long Island School: Earned a BA Degree in 1976, Buffalo State University of N.Y., where she initially studied painting. She failed the requisite introductory photography course because of her difficulties with the technological aspects of making a print. She credits her next photography teacher with introducing her to conceptual art, which she says had a liberating effect on her. Graduated in 1977 and moved to …

…tales. Her images, mostly untitled, record the dark underbelly of the stories and media imagery whose placid happiness and "happily ever after" endings we take for granted. In Sherman's fairy tale series from 1985, she puts a surreal twist on the pleasantries of Mother Goose and more appropriately, the bleak, often violent stories from Brother's Grimm. Disney would not approve. The fairy tales play on artifice and humor to create magical mirrors of metaphors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**