Vicki Sher

Vicki Sher

Recess

03 April — 24 May 2026

Recess

Known for her vibrant yet contemplative abstractions, Sher creates works that balance exuberant color with quiet, visual rhythm. In Recess, paintings and sculptures come together as a meditation on play, rest, and the emotional resonance of color.

The exhibition’s title evokes the familiar childhood moment of release from the classroom; an opportunity to step outside, move freely, and engage the world with curiosity and joy. Sher draws on this idea as a metaphor for the emotional and sensory possibilities of color. Just as recess encourages exploration and interaction, color in Sher’s work activates an uplifting visual experience that invites viewers to take a pause, look, and feel.

While Sher’s compositions are abstract, they remain wholly tethered to the natural world. Shapes reminiscent of branches, leaves, and landscapes emerge within invented arrangements of line and geometry. A work may begin as an intuitive composition, but is finished when it subtly recalls something familiar: a landscape, a memory, or a form encountered in nature. In this way, her paintings exist in a space between invention and recognition.

Despite their vibrancy, Sher often describes her works as “humming, rather than belting.” Musical language offers a useful metaphor for her process: compositions unfold through harmony, rhythm, and occasional visual dissonance before settling into equilibrium. The results are images that feel both energetic and composed, playful yet contemplative.

Alongside the paintings, Recess introduces sculptural works that extend Sher’s visual language into three dimensions. These forms embrace gravity and balance while translating the layered gestures of her drawings into physical space. Together, the works in the exhibition explore the interplay between vibrancy and quietude, abstraction and recognition, joy and reflection. Much like the recess of childhood – or the restorative escape many find in Jackson Hole – the exhibition offers viewers a momentary break from daily routines: a space to linger, observe, and reconnect with the simple pleasures of color, form, and play.

Born in Washington D.C. in 1966, Vicki Sher received her BFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and received her MFA from the University of Iowa. Her work has been exhibited at public institutions, including the Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, The Phillips Museum at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, and the Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Dallas TX. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship award and a VCCA Fellowship award. She has participated in numerous art fairs, including VOLTA Basel, NADA, and Art Paris Fair. Sher is represented by Frosch & Co. Gallery in New York, NY, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson, WY, George Gallery, Charleston, SC, and Galerie Louis Gendre, Chamalieres, France, among other galleries in the USA and Europe. Sher lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

36 x 40 inches

VICKI SHER

Born in Washington D.C. in 1966

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

1992 M.F.A. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

1988 B.F.A. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2014 Virginia Center For Creative Arts (VCCA), Resident Fellow

2012 MacDowell Colony Fellows Award, Summer Residency

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 Recess, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY

2025 Echo, George Gallery, Charleston, SC XO, Frosch&Co. Gallery, New York, NY

2024 Blue Like The Sun, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY

2023 Colour Compositions, Paul Smith Wooster, New York, NY

2022 Arrival, George Gallery Charleston, SC New Work, Galerie Louis Gendre, Chamalieres FR Vicki Sher-Paintings, Galerie Sweeney, Bordeaux, FR

2021 Spring Formal, Frosch&Co. Gallery, New York, NY

2020 Beside Myself, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY

2019 Second Nature, George Gallery, Charleston, SC

2018 Fountain, frosch&portmann, New York, NY

2017 Into the Light, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville TN Field Day, George Gallery, Charleston, SC

2016 VOLTA Art Basel, with frosch&portmann, Basel, Switzerland

PULSE NY Art Fair, with Uprise Art, New York, NY

2015 The Voice At 3AM, frosch&portmann, New York, NY

2013 Always Bring Flowers,

frosch&portmann, New York, NY

2012 Yes/No, frosch&portmann, New York, NY

2005 Nature Walk, Jessica Murray Projects, New York, NY

2002 Vacation from Murder, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Kaleidoscape, Savage Wonder Gallery, Beacon, NY

2024 Out of The Blue, Frosch&Co. Gallery, New York, NY

2023 Future Fair, with Frosch & Co. Gallery, New York, NY Epode, Uprise Art, New York, NY

Thresholds of Abstraction, BAM Art , Larchmont, NY

2022 Cakes and Shapes, Tayloe Piggott Gallery. Jackson Hole, WY

2021 Groundswell, University of Dallas, Dallas, TX

Art Paris, with Galerie Louis Gendre, Paris, France Stacks, Frosch&Co. Gallery, New York, NY

Groundswell, Beatrice Haggerty gallery, University of Dallas, TX

2020 Art on Paper fair, New York, NY, with frosch&portmann Yes we Change, New York, NY, frosch&portmann

2019 Paper Giants, Part V, UNI Gallery, Cedar Falls, IA Trio, Goldscopophilia Gallery, Montclair, NJ

NewYork/Berlin, at Galerie Louis Gendre, Chamalieres, FR

Art Paris , with Galerie Louis Gendre, Paris, FR

Art on Paper Fair, New York, NY, with frosch7portmann

2018 Drawing In/Drawing Out, Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA Group Show, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY

Art on Paper Fair, New York, NY, with frosch&portmann

Paper Giants LA, Lois lambert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2017 Cross Sectional Views, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Paper Giants, Part 3, Moore

College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

At Home, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville,TN

2016 Paper Giants, Part 2, The Volland Store, Alma, KS

2015 Cosmicomics, frosch&portmann, New York, NY

South of North, East of No West, Lowe Mills Gallery, Huntsville, AL

Family Ties, 500X, Dallas, TX “so different, so appealing”, frosch&portmann, New York, NY

2014 Soccer Mom, curated by Danielle Tegeder, New York, NY

White Silver, and Gold, Callicoon, NY

Second Family, curated by Julie Torres, New York, NY Paper Giants, Proto Gallery, Hoboken, NJ

DUSK Editions, opening exhibition, Brooklyn, NY

Do It Yourself, BOS (Bushwick Open Studios), organized by Julie Torres, Brooklyn, NY

2013 End Times, Sphinx gallery, NYC, curated by HKJB (Jay Henderson and Ben King)

2011 Tompkins Projects West - at Dan Graham, Los Angeles, CA ChainLetter, Samson Projects, Boston, MA

2010 Santa, Frosch & Portmann Gallery, New York, NY No Plans For Today, Fun Times Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Kickoff, frosch&portmann, New York, NY

2009 Mother/mother, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Lineweight, TSU Gallery, Kirksville, MO

2008 Landscape, Portrait, Pattern, Hallway Bathroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA Works on Paper Benefit, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY

A Soft Place to Land, OAG Gallery, Livingston Manor, NY

2007 Summer Group Show, OAG Gallery, Livingston Manor, NY

2005 NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL, with Jessica Murray Projects

2004 Grotto 2, Jessica Murray

Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2003 Grotto, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY

1999 Artist files 1999-present, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY

CURATORIAL

2015 Cosmicomics, frosch&portmann, New York, NY

2012 Cannonball!, frosch&portmann, New York, NY

2010 Observant, ISE Gallery, New York, NY

Mean and Sneaking, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY No Plans For Today, Fun Times, Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2021 Art As Form, Interview with Anastasiya Shellet

2017 Hutson, Laura, Nashville Scene, Critics Pick-Vicki Sher at Red Arrow Gallery

2016 Gotthardt, Alexa, Artsy, PULSE’s 15 Best Buys under $10,000 Purssey, Amy, Artreport, Conversation Between Artists at Pulse NY

2015 D’Agostino, Paul, BKMAG, Space Specters- From Calvino to Tarantino Micchelli, Thomas, Alien Forms-.‐Cosmicomics at Frosch&portmann

2014 Peyton, Cydney, A Common Task, Catalogue Essay: Paper Giants Young, Geoffrey, Catalogue Essay: Paper Giants

2013 Rutherford, Michael, Vicki Sher at frosch&portmann,

2012 Wright, Dusty, Talk, Talk, Talk, Culture Catch

2011 Butler, Sharon, Vicki Sher, New Work, Two Coats of Paint

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This catalog complements Vicki Sher’s exhibition

Recess

Maya Frodeman Gallery

03 April - 24 May 2026

Images courtesy of the artist

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