MARTIN SILVERMAN
Martin Silverman was born in 1950 in Brooklyn, NY. He lives and works in New York and has been exhibiting his work worldwide since 1973.
Martin Silverman’s exhibition “The Nikki Sheridan Show” at Feature inc. in 1995, featured 6 sculptures, each composed of a woman’s high-heeled shoe clinging to a cast bulbous bronze or black rubber form. None were notably stylish, which was a direct comment on the exhibition’s title. Nikki Sheridan was a character in Darren Starr’s series “CPW” (Central Park West) played by Michael Michele. Sheridan was a talented SoHo art gallery owner in the soap opera that ran on CBS from September 1995 to June 1996. Nikki Sheridan had an on and off affair with Allen until she decides to end their affair once and for all, only to discover that he is the anonymous buyer of the Renoir she sold to get the money to leave him. They discover that there are still some old feelings left and they reconcile. Eleanor Heartney’s review of the exhibition in Art in America stated that the appeal of this show stems, in part, from the shoe’s role as a cultural artifact. Elevated by Freud to the rank of fetishistic objects of displaced desire, shoes operate in our culture as clues to character, markers of status and half-veiled promises of sexual adventure.