Kelly Sherman (the ICA artist whose work I blogged about) won the Foster Prize at the ICA!

Cambridge artist gets a prize

Kelly Sherman got the call Sunday. That’s when the Cambridge artist learned she had won the Institute of Contemporary Art’s $25,000 James and Audrey Foster Prize, a biennial award for a Boston-area artist. “I jumped up and down and screamed and cried,” Sherman said yesterday. “I had done a pretty good job of convincing myself that I wouldn’t get it.” For her exhibition, Sherman, 28, created “The Family House,” a work of diagrammatic drawings of her childhood home showing shifts in household arrangements caused by divorce; “Wish Lists,” an evocative collection of 40 personal wish lists gathered from the Internet; and “Chairs,” a video featuring a parade of seating items for sale on eBay. The other finalists for the ICA’s prize were Sheila Gallagher, Jane D. Marsching, and Rachel Perry Welty. The work of all four artists will be at the ICA through March 11.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/02/13/message_in_a_ballpark/