Using the skull and brain as recurring symbols, she traces how consciousness moves through the body: how light, pattern, and color express what we can’t see but constantly feel.
What began as a fascination with form has become a study of presence. Each piece exists between realism and abstraction, anatomy and energy — an attempt to give language to what lives within.
The I. A.M. series exposes the architecture of thought itself. I. A.M. is short for Instant Abstract Metaphor. Sherman paints skulls and brains as cartographies of the unseen—spaces where biology and consciousness blur. Through layers of pigment and texture, she reveals the mind not as a static organ but as a living landscape of emotion, memory, and intuition.
Sherman’s paintings bridge the scientific and the mystical. They are both psychological maps and spiritual mirrors—offering viewers an invitation to look inward and recognize the unseen worlds they, too, inhabit.
