Edsel (1992) 114.3x114.3cm (45 x 45")
AWARD: Juror's Award for Painting,
Berkeley Art Center Association 12th Annual National Competition, 1996. Geno
Rodriquez, Director of the Alternative Museum - Juror.
Berkeley painter John Sheridan's canvases Heaven's My Destination and Edsel
are colorfully set adrift in the Freality Zone, a murky realm where fantasy
and reality coalesce. Sheridan's hallucinatory '58 Edsel is a particularly
artful acid trip: the hyperrealistically rendered vehicle-cum-symbol - the
stuff American dreams are made of - floats in a psychedelic red, white and
yellow nebula. -- Harry Roche, SF Bay Guardian
(See references to 1950s cars in Harry Roche's interview. 1,
2, 3)