Cindy Sherman and Dan Cameron will be honored next week at Anderson Ranch Art Center's 13th Annual Recognition Dinner, which takes place July 8. However, all this week National Artist Award-winner Sherman's work will be displayed, celebrated and discussed at various times at the Ranch.

A reception of Sherman's early work opens July 2 from 5-7 p.m. in the Patton-Malott Gallery. It will be on display through July 24. Concurrently, there will be an speak preview of the Annual Art Auction in the Gideon Garnter Gallery.

Then on July 7 at 5 p.m. will be an art talk, “Cindy Sherman: The Face That Launched a Thousand Theories” at Schermer Meeting Hall. Jerry Saltz, senior art critic for New York magazine will discuss Sherman's work. Tickets run $5 and must be purchased in advance.

The 13th Annual Recognition Dinner begins with cocktails at 6 p.m. on July 8 followed by the dinner program. It takes place at the Doerr Hosier Center at Aspen Meadows and includes dinner and dancing.

Sherman, a New Juersey native studied painting at State University College in Buffalo, New York, where she failed her introductory course in photography. After graduating in 1976, she produced the 69 black-and-white photographs that comprise her series Untitled Film Stills (1977-80). The images, which resemble movie stills, all portray Sherman herself in a multitude of guises: B-movie characters, film noir victims or European New Wave cinema stars.

Since the early 1980s, Sherman has photographed herself in a multitude of masquerades that continue to explore both cinematic traditions – particularly horror – and conventions of representation in popular culture. The construction of woman as image is dominant in her photographs. Her works in color, such as Centerfolds (1981) and Fashion (1983-4), explore themes of voyeurism and fantasy. In 1996, Sherman made her directorial debut with “The Office Killer,” a film starring Carol Kane. Her work has been shown internationally in more than 150 group exhibitions and 75 solo shows, most notably in 1997 when “The Complete Untitled Film Stills” was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Dan Cameron is winner of the Service to the Arts Award, which is given to locally or nationally recognized arts advocates whose efforts have supported artists and arts institutions and who have made contributions to the cultural and social life of our country, representing the highest level of leadership, integrity and vision.

Cameron is an internationally renowned curator who was recently appointed director of visual arts of the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in New Orleans. He is the founding director and chief curator of Prospect.1 New Orleans, the only Venice-Biennale-style international art exhibition in the United States. For 10 years, he held the position of senior curator at the prestigious New Museum of Contemporary Art in Soho.

Cameron has organized numerous large-scale and international exhibitions, including: “Dirty Yoga,” the 2006 Taipei Biennial; “NY Interrupted” (pkm Gallery, Beijing, 2006-07) and “Poetic Justice” (the 8th International Istanbul Biennial, 2003), among others. While senior curator at the New Museum (1995-2006) he organized retrospective exhibitions on the work of numerous mid-career artists from the U.S. and abroad, as well as acclaimed survey exhibitions like “East Village USA” (2004) and “Living Inside the Grid” (2003).