Barron Sherer

Now Available from Canyon Cinema: Two New Films by Barron Sherer Sketch No. 1, Fire Station No. 9 (2024) and Sketch No. 2, Fire Station No. 9 (2024) document the pre-demolition site conditions of Miami's historic Kendall Jackson Hospital Annex using varied techniques. Sketch No. 1 utilizes free-form documentation and experimental film techniques to explore the site's formal and elegiac beauty. Sketch No. 2 is a two-channel 16mm film projection that layers temporal and spatial impressions of the hospital site and audio field recordings by Archival Feedback (Emile Milgrim and Thom Wheeler Castillo), which create both consonance and dissonance with Sherer's visual compositions. Barron Sherer is a Miami-based media artist with a background in moving image archival practice and research. Taking the form of hybrid film/video remediations and projection-based media installations, Sherer’s work focuses on repurposing and manipulating found film, slides, video, and photographs through formal experimentation; utilizing social media platforms such as Instagram as both a source of material and a mode of documentation. Info: canyoncinema.com/2025/09/05/now-available-two-new-films-by-barron-sherer/ #canyoncinema #barrorsherer @barronsherer #16mm #film #doubleprojection #sketchno1 #sketchno2 #firestationno9 #newacquisition #nowavailable #miami #kendalljacksonhospitalannex #movingimagealliance @moving_image_alliance #archivalfeedback

@deeringestate Micro-study with macro-tubes from May, 2025. The 16mm film stock is expired (1996!!) Kodak EXR 200T. The film was rated at ISO 20 and processed normal ECN-2

Hope you take a moment and check out the critical essay “Creation and destruction in Miami’s urban landscape” by Alexandra Martinez @alex__mar . Let me know what you think! It’s about recent Rosemarie Chiarlone @chiarlonerosemarie and Barron Sherer solo exhibitions at Under The Bridge and Bridge Red Studios @bridgeredstudios . You’ll find the essay is posted at the @dimensionsvariable JOURNAL site. I encourage you to snoop around, there’s more great writing there. JOURNAL reflects on contemporary art in Miami and is supported by @oolitearts and @knightfdn LINK IN THE BIO Installation pix by the great @fcasale2018

Alexander Sherer cameos in “Mobile Phone Studies 1-25”, 16mm, 2020, 5 min., Color, Sound #flashbackfriday

Installation views by Francesco Casale, courtesy of The Deering Estate, featuring several of my film-based and digital video works currently on view in Marmoris II: Selections from the Deering Estate Artist-in-Residence Archive, curated by Liliam Dominguez and Amaranta Mattie. The group exhibition includes works by current residence alongside new projects developed by past participants in the AIR program. The show is on view at the Coral Springs Museum of Art through May 23. An artist talk will take place on April 25 at 2pm.

(Screenshots) Sketch No. 3, Fire Station No. 9 (Finger Mullet Iteration), 2026, 35mm to Digital Video, Black and White, Silent with Sound Accompaniment, 10:00 First performance of this thing is this weekend FRI 4/10 as part of the Finger Mullet Fest, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Flagler College, Saint Augustine, Florida. This iteration features David Brieske performing a live improvised soundscape. The sketches in the past several years are part of my ongoing Art in Public Places project. Quick shoutout to the Sketch 3 artist friends/crew: @annagoraczkoart @saintfrancess @fig.m also the folks at A.P.P., and we even had a county fire engine team help out with this one.

We are thrilled to welcome Barron Sherer back to the FMFF, this time around collaborating with David Brieske during the live performance component. Presented as part of the 4th Annual Finger Mullet Film Festival, Sketch No. 3 documents pre-demolition conditions at the historic Kendall Jackson Hospital (circa 1935) Annex. The film is part of Barron Sherer’s ongoing Fire Station No. 9 project, which examines a WPA-era site slated to become a fire station through artist activations, archival research, and moving-image documentation. “Sketch No. 3” was created using “Phytography,” an alternative photographic process developed by Karel Doing that employs plant material to produce direct impressions on a black-and-white film negative. Sherer and collaborators collected plant matter on site and used one of the remaining rooms in the structure as a temporary darkroom to create the exposures/impressions on film. In this way, the building functioned both as a subject and as a production space. The 35mm film elements were later transferred to digital video for presentation. For this premiere performance, Miami-based artist David Brieske performs a live improvised soundscape. Breiske’s practice incorporates field recordings gathered during his travels, and he considers environmental sound integral to the compositional process. For this iteration, the artist integrates audio recordings captured at the hospital site with electronics and processed instrumentation, responding in real time to the projected image. David Brieske (Chicago, 1970) has been creating music and sound work since 2005 under the name Fsik Huvnx. He has performed at many venues and events throughout Miami and collaborated with many local artists and musicians. Barron Sherer (Rock Hill, SC, 1967) is a time-based media artist focusing on transforming and reusing archived films and videos across cinematic, para-cinematic, and gallery installation. Recent work has been exhibited widely, including at the Frost Museum of Art, Perez Art Museum Miami, and Dimensions Variable. Barron’s film work is in the Centre Pompidou Film Collection, among others Film stills courtesy of the artist.

People of Earth, I’m honored to be part of Salon Together—, a special fundraiser @dimensions_variable exhibition that supports the production of their upcoming 16-year publication. All works in Salon Together— have been generously donated by artists who have exhibited with DV, participated in their studio program, or collaborated with them thru the years. 100% of proceeds go straight to the costs of making this publication happen, a project that will document/celebrate artists, conversations, and the community that DV has built in Miami over the last sixteen years. Please join me at one of my favorite organizations for the opening as this is going to be an awesome moment in Miami’s cultural history. February 28, 6–9 PM @dimensions_variable There is a link in my bio where you may view and purchase works directly online.

Showing digital video in a program featuring artists I admire this evening. Swipe thru for details and there’s an RSVP link in my stories. As part of the CAMP Gallery exhibition Vision/Version by Pablo Power join us in North Miami for a special one-day film screening, Vision/Version in Motion, featuring video works by Rey Parla, Michael Betancourt, Luis Gispert, Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez, Pablo Power, and Barron Sherer. 6–9pm The CAMP Gallery 791 NE 125 St Miami, FL 33161 +++ SCREENCAPS Barron Sherer, OMW!, 2020, Single-Channel Digital Video, Color, Sound, 2:07 “OMW!” was commissioned by Dimensions Variable and made with support from Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Bill Orcutt, Cinelab Boston, Knight Foundation, Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives at MDC, Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs, Oolite Arts and Signal Culture.

Round about the time I was making films, screening films with the Alliance for Media Arts and Alliance Film/Video Co-Operative on Lincoln Road. Come by @oolitearts for an art week brunch on Saturday, 12/6 at 10:30am and check out a selection of 90s film and video works in a program I organized celebrating the “co-op” and the spirit and work of those involved. Thx Gean and Melissa. #waybackwednesday

Do drop in during Art Week Miami. Psssst: Join us for brunch Dec. 6, 10:30am - 12pm “Co-op Cohort!” Curated by Barron Sherer 924 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, FL, 33139 On view at Oolite Arts Nov. 19, 2025–Jan. 18, 2026 “Presented as a companion to the Gean Moreno curated “One Is Two and Two Are Many More”, “Co-op Cohort!” revisits the artist-run legacy of the Alliance Film/Video Cooperative, founded in 1992 by Mark Boswell and William Keddell. With support from the City of Miami Beach, the Co-op transformed Lincoln Rd. into a hub for experimental cinema, offering affordable access to equipment, edit bays, and workshops while nurturing a generation of filmmakers working outside commercial systems. Featuring restored works by key members including Barron Sherer, José Isaza, and Rodney Ascher, the exhibition captures a pivotal moment in Miami’s creative evolution when collaboration, resourcefulness, and community defined the city’s independent film scene. “Co-op Cohort!” honors that legacy and reaffirms Oolite Arts’ ongoing commitment to experimentation and artistic exchange.” - Oolite Arts IMAGE: Barron Sherer and Jose Isaza, Party Trick (Original music by Bill Orcutt), 1995. BW 16mm and audio accompaniment transferred to video, 1:18 min. Courtesy of the artist.