Samantha Scherer
These Are Their Stories
Works on paper
2007-Present
Samantha Scherer, 01-011, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, framed, $400.
Samantha Scherer, 01-002-2, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 01-005, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 01-011, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 01-015, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 01-018, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 01-019-1, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 01-019-2, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 01-020-2, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 02-025, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 02-027, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 02-030, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, framed, $400.
Samantha Scherer, 02-036,, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 02-037, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 02-038, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 02-039, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, framed, $400.
Samantha Scherer, 02-042, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 02-044, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, framed, $400.
Samantha Scherer, 03-047, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 03-050-1, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 03-052-2, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 03-057, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 03-059, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 03-060, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 03-063, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 03-064, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 04-068, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 04-070-1, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 04-070-2, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 04-071, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 04-076, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 04-078, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 04-081-1, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, framed, $400.
Samantha Scherer, 05-097, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 05-099, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 05-101, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 07-21-01, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 07-137, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 07-157, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, framed, $400.
Samantha Scherer, 08-169-3, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 14-302, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 14-303, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 14-304, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 14-305, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 14-311, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 14-316, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300
Samantha Scherer, 14-319, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300.
Samantha Scherer, 14-320, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300
Samantha Scherer, 14-321, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, $300
Samantha Scherer, 02-028, 2007, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches
Samantha Scherer, 07-149-1, 2011, watercolor on stained paper, 2.5 x 2.5 inches
These Are Their Stories is about compulsion and the impulse to collect. It also examines the fascination with pain and death, on both a personal and cultural level, and the media’s role in feeding this fascination. For years, I have been a reluctant fan of the television show “Law and Order.” Attracted by its focus on morbid crimes, I am almost powerless to ignore the endless reruns on cable and often find myself watching episodes that I may have already seen more than once. This has amounted to hours and hours of seeing vaguely recognizable character actors assaulted and murdered on a regular basis. In an effort to both acknowledge and control this behavior, I decided to create a visual catalog of these fictional victims in the hopes that deliberate viewing and deconstruction of the show would weaken its power over me. I am systematically combing through multiple seasons, collecting video stills of various victims post-crime, rendering them in black watercolor on small squares of lightly tinted paper and then cataloging them using a simple code of season and episode number. The result is a work in progress which will continue to bloom as long as there are episodes and victims to fuel my compulsion.