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Sandy Sherman

Sandy Sherman, based in Stoddard, New Hampshire has developed a series of paintings titled Grotoons™ inspired by art historical ‘grotesques', especially figures which appeal to a certain bizarreness, invoke emotions of sympathetic pity, and combine with humor. 

Examples in painting of such creatures, often mixed between animals and humans, are seen in the margins of illuminated manuscripts where they are known as a drollery. In other times of history grotesques were developed into entire systems of ornamentation and decoration using foliage, garlands, and other details along with outlandish and senseless human and animal figures to embellish interior architecture. 

Sandy Sherman’s Grotoons™ paintings are being offered as hand touched and varnished archival pigment prints on canvas, mounted, matted and framed by the artist. 

Canal Street Art Gallery

23 Canal Street, Bellows Falls, Vermont