Adrienne Sherman creates works that celebrate the mystery of life, anchored in history, and inspired by dreams, everyday magic, and stories passed from one generation to the next. Her unique narrative paintings, grounded in realism, are strongly influenced by the Italian Renaissance, and like most enduring fairytales, they balance truth with tragedy. In her "Endangered" series, the artist focuses on birds and animals at risk and on the precarious times in which we live.

EXHIBITIONS:

Deck the Walls, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA 2022

Group Show, Untitled Gallery, San Francisco, 1991

Solo Show, Untitled Gallery, San Francisco, 1992

Windows at Tiffany & Co., San Francisco, Summer 1992

Schoharie County Arts Council National, Small Works Exhibit (first place award), 1992

Miniatures, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, October 1993

Menagerie: Animal Images by Contemporary Artists, Community Arts, Inc., Los Angeles, September 1993 and San Francisco March 1994

New Old Masters, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, April to June 1994

Imaginary Landscapes, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, April to June 1994

Altered Realism, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, September 1995

Celebration Especially for Children, Art of the Theatre, Bellevue Museum of Art, Bellevue, WA, December 1995 to February 1996

Group Show, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, May 1996

Paintings (solo show), Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, September to November 1996

Paintings (solo show) Davidson Galleries, Seattle, October 1997

New Paintings (solo show) Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, September to October 1998

Old Masters Revisited, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, May to June 1999

New Paintings (solo show), Davidson Galleries, Seattle, October 1999

Art and Artists in the Millennium, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, December 1999

Animal Magnetism, sponsored by Northwest Building Corporation, Norton Building, Seattle, March to June 2000

New Paintings (solo show), Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, September to October 2000

Small Packages Show, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville December 2000

New Paintings (solo show), Davidson Galleries, Seattle, September 2001

Introductions, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, October 2001

Small Packages Show, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville ,December 2001

Small Packages Show, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, December 2003

New Paintings (solo show), Davidson Galleries, Seattle, December 2003 Small Packages Show, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville December 2004

New Paintings (solo show), Davidson Galleries, Seattle, September 2005

“Altared”, Kirkland Center for the Arts, Kirkland, WA, March to May 2006

“Symbolisim - Unheard Voices - The Symbolic Language of Contemporary Artists”, Gage Academy, Seattle, September to October 2006

Holiday Exhibition, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, December 2006

New Paintings (solo show), Davidson Galleries, Seattle, October 2007

Holiday Exhibition, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, December 2007

New Paintings (solo show). Davidson Galleries, Seattle, September 2010

Small Works, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, December 2010

Holiday Show, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, December 2011

Tiny” Group Show, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, December 2012

“Delicious” Group Show, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, March 2013

Tenth Anniversary Show, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, December 2013

“Imaginarium” (solo show). Thomas Reynolds Gallery, September 2014

" Small Treasures” (group show). Thomas Reynolds Gallery, Dec. 2014

Centennial Art Show (group show), Metropolitan Club, April 2015

"Tiny" Holiday Show, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, December 2015

"Great Spirits Among Us", group show, Nails in the Wall Gallery, Metuchen, N. J. September to December 2016,

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe 120th Annual Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY. December 12016

MISCELLANEOUS:

Nominated for the Eureka Fellowship Foundation Grant, 1993

Cover for Nob Hill Gazette, October 1997 issue, “Roman Holiday - Cara as Audrey Hepburn”

Featured in the publication New American Painting, December 1997 (Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA)

Cover for The East Bay Monthly, September 1998 issue, “L’Architetto”

Recommended for the IN/Site Art Award (formerly

SECA Award), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2002

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:

A. G. Becker

Allstate Insurance Company

Amoco Production Co.

Atlantic Richfield

Austin American Statesman

Bank of America, San Francisco

Bristol Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Borg Warner

CPM Corporation

Citigroup

Coca Cola, Houston and Atlanta

Morgan Stanley throughout US

Exxon Chemical Corporation

General Electric

GTE Sprint

Hyatt Regency Hotels, throughout US

Lloyd’s Bank

Northwest Building Corporation

Paine Webber

Portman-Barry, Atlanta

Sheraton Hotels

Wells Fargo Bank

Arthur Young and Co.

EDUCATION

School of Visual Arts, and widely self taught