Bound, Unbound, Rebound

2025  9 min.
Elizabeth Sher walks you through 2025 her solo art exhibition Bound, Unbound, Rebound at Mercury 20 Gallery in Oakland's Arts District. Learn how Sher balanced her art practice with motherhood, teaching and being married in the sexist 1980s. Sher works in series and for this show she revisited a series using images of rope to expand the confines of the etching plate and her own life. In 2024 with her childen grown, she revisited this series using digital images which she overpainted and sometimes obliterated with paint and drawing materials to create the Unbound series.