"Using scissors and machine, I approach the human figure through intricate piecing, layering and drawing with stitching. The rich patterns of printed material attract me for their pointillist qualities and how the eye is engaged. For me, fabric has become the perfect vehicle with which to narrate what is multifaceted, often non-verbal and invisible in the human experience."
Deidre Scherer’s thread-on-layered-fabric work is included in over one hundred and sixty exhibitions worldwide such as her solos at The Baltimore Museum of Art; the Maltwood Art Museum in Victoria, BC; and the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY. Her work is featured extensively in publications as well as in the documentary film, “Holding Our Own” -complete with scenes from HUC-JIR Museum’s opening of her “Surrounded by Family and Friends” exhibition.
Scherer received the 2010 Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Award for Artistic Achievement; the 2008 Humanities Award from the American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine; and fellowships from the Vermont Arts Council and the Open Society Institute.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC
2008 Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, FL
2007 Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, New York, NY
2006 Maltwood Art Museum, Surrounded by Family and Friends & The Last Year, Victoria, B.C.
2004 Washington Center For The Performing Arts, Olympia, WA
2003 Genet Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2002 Karl Drerup Gallery, Life Transitions, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH
2001 Brattleboro Museum, Surrounded by Family and Friends, Brattleboro, VT, catalogue
1998 Baltimore Museum of Art, Deidre Scherer: The Threaded Image, Baltimore, MD, & lecture
1997 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1996 Museum of Fine Arts, Deidre Scherer, Threads of Experience, Springfield, MA
1995 Redding Museum of Art, Redding, CA
1994 Dennis Woodman Gallery, Images of Aging, Kew, Surrey, England
1992 Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Bennington Museum, State of Craft, Bennington, VT
2009 Tabla Rasa Gallery, Pioneer Women, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Visions Art Gallery, Figuratively Speaking, San Diego, CA
2005 Racine Art Museum, Magnificent Extravagance, Racine, WI
2003 The 30 Distinguished Quilt Artists of the World, Tokyo International Festival, Japan
2002 The Goldstein Museum, University of Minnesota, Material Witness, St. Paul, MN
2000 Museum of Art & Design, Miniatures 2000, Helsinki, Finland: also Helen Drutt: Philadelphia
1999 The Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Viewpoints, Davis, CA
1995 Renwick, Smithsonian Inst., Nat'l Museum of American Art, Full Deck, Washington, DC
1993 Alexandra Palace, Celebrating the Stitch, London; also Vancouver, BC; & Tokyo, Japan
1989 Erector Square Gallery, Woman in Her Place, New Haven, CT, Honorable Mention
1988 Brockton Art Museum, Bits and Pieces, Brockton, MA
1987 Boston University Art Gallery, Illusion in Art, Boston, MA, catalogue
SELECTED COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Museum of Science, Boston, MA
Dartmouth College, Tuck School, Hanover, NH St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, NY
SELECTED HONORS
2010 Rhode Island School of Design, Alumni Association Award for Artistic Achievement, RI
2008 American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Humanities Award, Tampa, FL
2005 National Museum of Women in the Arts, From the States Program Finalist, Washington, DC
2000 The Open Society Institute: Project on Death in America, Fellowship Award
1994 Vermont Arts Council, Fellowship Award
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
SO Vermont Arts&Living, “State of Craft”, Arlene Distler, interview, Fall 2010
Masters: Art Quilts, Major Works by Leading Artists by Martha Sielman, profile, Lark Books, 2008
Seven Days, “The Art of Dying”, Pamela Polston, article, Nov 2006
Hope Magazine, “The Living End”, Jim Baldwin, article, Sept./Oct. 2004
The Boston Globe Magazine, “Encounter”, B.J. Roche, interview, May 12, 2002
Surrounded by Family and Friends, Deidre Scherer, catalogue, May 2001
Art in Embassies Program, “We the People”, Brussels, Belgium, catalogue, 2001
Deidre Scherer: Work in Fabric & Thread by Deidre Scherer, C&T Publishing, 1998
Embroidery, "Philosophy of an Artist", Ruth Smith, interview, United Kingdom, Spring 1995
BMA Today, "In the Spotlight", The Baltimore Museum of Art, profile, July/Aug. 1995
Celebrating the Stitch, profile: "Deidre Scherer", Barbara Lee Smith, book, Taunton Press, 1991
Art Journal, "Feminist Art Criticism", Cassandra Langer, article, Summer 1991
Hospice, "Deidre Scherer: Artist As Activist", Richard Ewald, feature article & cover, Fall 1991
SELECTED REVIEWS
The Daily Reflector, “Hanging on the Issues”, Tom Marine, Greenville, NC, January 19, 2009
Times Colonist, “Artist Stitches Fabric of Death”, Robert Amos, Victoria, B.C., March 2, 2006
Art New England, “In her intricate fiber works..”, Melissa McCarthy, April/May 2003
San Jose Mercury News, “Piecing Together Life & Death”, Jack Fischer, San Jose, CA, July 28, 2002
Murray Ledger & Times, “Finding Inspiration”, Constance Alexander, Muray, KY, October 2001
Art & Antiques, “Threads of Life”, May 2000
MS Magazine, “Arts Watch”, Chirs Kelsey, July/August 1998
New Age Journal, “Textures of the Soul”, Trebbe Johnson, July/August 1997
Syracuse Herald American, “The Transition in Dying”, Sherry Chayat, Syracuse, NY, Nov. 9, 1997
The Boston Globe, “Keene Exhibit Features...Strong Work”, Boston, MA, June 19, 1994
Artweek, “Expressing the Inexpressible”, Edie Meidav, January 1992
SELECTED REPRODUCTIONS
OWL 2010 Mother’s Day Report, cover & interior, Older Women’s League, Washington, DC, 2010
The Hastings Center Report; covers, March 2003, Nov-December 2005, and Nov-December 2008
American Journal of Nursing, cover & interiors, May 2002 and April 2004
Journal of the American Medical Association, interior, November 2000
Threads of Experience, book cover and interior images by Deidre Scherer, Papier-Mache, 1996
Frontline...Geriatric Disorders, cover, Yamada Medical Service, Japan, 1992
When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, book cover & poster, Papier-Mache, 1987
EDUCATION
B.F.A. 1967, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
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