Forrest Scherer transforms studio production into visual puzzles that resemble diaristic child’s play. Their paintings, prints, sculptures, and text-based installations rearrange and decompose language into spatial configurations with competing, plastic (as in pliable) meanings. Forrest’s “touch propositions” invoke the material and textual processes through which trans identities are performed.
Forrest Scherer (they/he) is a visual artist and curator based in Los Angeles. Their work has been exhibited at Paris London Hong Kong, Chicago; Wavelength, Chattanooga; Outsider Festival, Austin; GLASS BOX, Seattle; Specialist, Seattle; Actual Size LA, Los Angeles; studio e, Seattle; SOIL Gallery, Seattle; and WERK, Los Angeles. In 2017, Forrest founded Specialist, a contemporary art gallery and project space in Seattle that is still running. In 2022, he completed his master’s degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Low Residency MFA program. Forrest is currently painting, as well as developing a curatorial-publishing project serving trans artists.
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