All photos by Andrew Sherman.
Buddy Magazine contributor Andrew Sherman will see his concert photography hung as fine art when “Fermata: Immediacy and Connection” opens this week at Tucker Art Projects in Deep Ellum, running June 18 through Aug. 2.
The exhibition marks the debut show for Tucker Art Projects, a new gallery launched in collaboration with the Deep Ellum Foundation and area commercial property owners. Founders Scott and Melissa Tucker, musicians in their own right through Aztec Milk Temple, The Orange and previous ventures Blow-Up Gallery and Inner.space Projects, built the space to focus specifically on music, art and literary culture — what organizers describe as the first Deep Ellum gallery dedicated exclusively to music-related art.
Sherman, whose live-performance images have appeared on multiple Buddy covers, spent nearly four years photographing shows almost nightly at Deep Ellum Art Company before building a career that has taken him into venues including the Longhorn Ballroom, Dickies Arena, American Airlines Center and the Winspear Opera House. His work has also run in Rolling Stone, Alternative Press, Live for Live Music and Fort Worth Weekly, alongside regular contributions to the Dallas Observer.
Beyond photography, Sherman founded the online concert-photography outlet Last Nite Live and hosts the Dallas Famous Podcast on Deep Ellum Radio. He won the Dallas Morning News Readers’ Choice award for Best Photographer in 2023, has been named Best Podcast three years running at the Dallas Entertainment Awards, and took home Best Concert Photographer at this year’s Dallas Entertainment Awards.
In an essay accompanying the show, Sherman said the decision to print physical copies of his work was deliberate, noting that digital files carry no guarantee of permanence. The exhibition’s title refers to the musical notation indicating a note should be held beyond its written duration – a fitting frame for an exhibit built around captured live moments.
“Fermata” opens to the public June 18 at Tucker Art Projects in Deep Ellum.
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