THE GENE AND BRIAN SHERMAN CAPSULE COLLECTION II
Gene and Brian Sherman’s second offering follows the successful sale of Capsule Collection I - the curated body of work by significant Australian artists offered at Deutscher and Hackett in August 2015.
The Sherman collection, comprising over 900 works amassed over close to five decades, continues to undergo a gradual pruning, in order to accommodate the couple’s interest in supporting emerging Australian and Pan-Asian artists.
The Capsule Collection auctions follow judicious editing which include gifts to museums and galleries, allowing key works from the Sherman Collection to circulate, finding new homes and audiences.
Gene continues to research intensively, travel widely and lend support to promising artists with invitations to participate in Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) Projects. In addition, Gene and Brian continue to collect, modifying as they go their considered acquisition strategy.
Maintaining an ongoing tradition, part of the proceeds from each Capsule Collection will be donated to education in the visual arts. In 2016, the National Art School, under the dedicated leadership of Michael Snelling, will once more benefit from this de-accessioning process.
Following Go East: The Gene & Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection (Art Gallery of New South Wales, May – July 2015) additional museum shows have been initiated, including a substantial body of contemporary Asian work from the collection to be exhibited at the National Gallery of Australia. The monumental work by Jitish Kallat, Public Notice II, exhibited in Go East at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and subsequently gifted to the gallery, will travel to the Art Gallery of Western Australia (7 May -22 August 2016) together with Chinese Bible by Yang Zhichao, donated jointly by the Shermans and the Kallat family.
Acquisitions, gifts, loans and de-accessions continue to modify the Gene and Brian Sherman Collection and multiply audiences for the art of our time.