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1. By Hand, 2006, mixed media assemblage, 12" x 18-1/2"
2. Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White, 2006, mixed media
      assemblage, 15" x 20"
3. Fruit Stand, 2007, reclaimed and altered wooden objects
      assemblage, 42" x 20"
4. Girl from Ipanema, 2004, mixed media assemblage, 10" x 15"
5. Good Morning America, 2005, mixed media assemblage,
      7" x 25" x 4"
6. John's Son, 2004, mixed media assemblage, 8" x 14"
7. Mrs. Floyd E. Cahoon, 2005, mixed media assemblage,
      10-1/2" x 16" x 4"
8. Row, 2008, mixed media assemblage, found objects, 19" x 10" x 5"
9. Tarawa, 2004, mixed media assemblage, 14" x 16" x 5"
10. Bridesmaid Revisited, 2004, assemblage, 6" x 13"
11. Ms Hopewell Hand, 2005, assemblage, 6" x 12"
12. Stella Nets the Moon, 2004, assemblage, 17" x 15"
13. Whiter than rice, 2005, assemblage, 19" x 23"

Contact Information
Heron Crest Studios
Aston, PA
tel: 610-513-0848
e-mail: soniasherrod@topdrawerdesigns.net
www.tddesigns.blogspot.com
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Statement
My assemblage pieces aspire to create beauty or relativity out of the discarded, broken, and abandoned found objects that I often juxtapose with my own original 2-d art, old photographs as well as bits of actual poetry thrown into the mix.  They seek to explore the relative ness of color, shadows, and shape as well as compartmentalizing thematic associations of still-life, portrait, and landscape....empty, full, crowded and sparse, revealing and withholding.  I like to concentrate on an overall feeling that emerges from a particular piece with contradictory themes and associations woven into the crevices.  Disassembling and modifying is an intricate and time consuming part of the process as is the actual collecting of the objects and materials.  Creating art that reveals the beauty in something otherwise considered as eyesore or showing the ugliness in an image or thing that is considered desirable is a consistent pursuit in my study of contrasts.  

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

2008
7Arts Gallery, Wilmington, DE

2007
Viking Culinary Arts, Bryn Mawr PA

Group

2008
Environment Distress, Louis Redding Gallery, Wilmington, DE

Englewood Arts National Juried Art Show, Englewood, CO

Manchester National Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Richmond, VA

World of Professional Artist # 2, MCGOPA, Conshohocken, PA

Women's History Month: Relics & Remembrances, Reflect-arts, Inc, New York, NY
Online finalist

2007
Reconfigured, Basement Gallery, Knoxville, TN
National Juried Exhibition

Black is the Color, Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition

Art of Sacrifice, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN
National Juried Exhibition

Clifford Brown Jazz Art, City/County Building, Wilmington, DE

McGOPA Collage/Mixed Media, Conshohocken, PA
Juried Exhibition

The 41st Annual Robert Ransley, Mount Holly, NJ
Juried Exhibition

All Media Open Show, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA

Art of the Flower, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA

Manchester National Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Richmond, VA

10th National Juried Art Exhibition, Baker Arts Center, Liberal KS

2006
White Lotus, New Brunswick, NJ

2006
First Friday Show, October Gallery, Philadelphia PA

Eco’ Arts Project, International Visions Art Gallery, Washington, DC

2005
Artist and Artisans of Bucks County, Doylestown, PA

Community Arts Center, Wallingford PA

2001
PAFA Japanese Brush Painting, Serendipity Cafe, Philadelphia, PA

1997
Festival of the Masters, Orlando, FL

Other

2007
Open Studio Show, Heron Crest, Aston, PA

Fine Arts and Craft Festival, Media, PA

Helen Kate Furness Library Auction, Wallingford, PA

2006
Clean Water Action Auction, Philadelphia PA