She was born in January, 19, 1954, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, as the youngest of five children, and shortly after Cindy’s birth, the family moved to Long Island where she spent her early childhood. Her father was an engineer and her mother a reading teacher, but although her parents shared a general disinterest in the arts, Cindy chose to study art in college, and afterwards, and studied at Buffalo, at the State University of New York, in the early 1970s.
In this period, from 1972 to 1976, in Buffalo, she began as a painter in a super- realist art style. The 1970s was an eclectic era for painters working in the aftermath of Minimalism, and feeling as though ‘’there was nothing else to say’. But very quickly after, she found herself frustrated …show more content…
In 1977, in her downtown residential and loft studio she started taking a series of photographs of herself, a project she would eventually refer to as the Untitled Film Stills. In this series, Cindy embodies the character of ‘Everywoman’; she re-fashioning herself repeatedly into the guise of various female archetypes, and played the film noir siren, the prostitute, the girly pin-up, the housewife and the noble damsel in distress. For about three years, she was occupied by black- and- white series, so that by 1980, Sherman had exhausted a myriad of seemingly timeless clichés referring to the …show more content…
In Untitled Film Still #21, from 1978, Sherman takes on the role of the small- town girl just happening upon the Big City. She is, at first, suspicious of the metropolitan shadows and lights, only to be eventually seduced by its attractions
With the Untitled Film Stills, Sherman secured her position in the New York art scene, which led to her first solo exhibition at the non-profit exhibition space, the