Cheryl Warrick, Abstract Drypoint Etching Cheryl Warrick African American Woman Artist, 2006

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Cheryl Warrick (American, b. 1956),
"Peace Makes Plenty"
Color etching, soft ground, white ground, drypoint, and chine colle, on Hahnemuhle … more Cheryl Warrick (American, b. 1956),
"Peace Makes Plenty"
Color etching, soft ground, white ground, drypoint, and chine colle, on Hahnemuhle Copperplate paper
Hand signed in pencil.
Depicting a collage scene of various elements.
Printed by Catherine Kernan at Mixit Print Studio

Cheryl Warrick, a Boston-based abstract painter and surface pattern designer. Cheryl Warrick was born 1956, in St. Albans, New York, She holds an AD from Rhode Island Community College in nursing (1977), a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art (1988), and an M.Ed in Creative Arts in Learning from Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1997). She has taught painting at numerous venues in the Boston area and was a visiting artist at Georgia State University. Her awards include The Ballenger Fellowship and the New England Foundation for the Arts, New Genres.
Her mixed media paintings invite you to find visual relationships and meaning in shapes, textures, symbols, landscapes and patterns. In a recent conversation Warrick noted that her early paintings referenced quilt making because she had been fascinated by the work of the women of Gee's Bend in the 1980’s, before they became so well known. She began making quilts with her young daughter, and the decorative elements in her work seem to be influenced by this craft. Another aspect of Warrick’s work is the juxtaposition of high art and low art.

Warrick has been represented by the NAGA Gallery in Boston and Dolan//Maxwell in Philadelphia. Among the many institutions that include her work in their collections are the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Roxbury, MA, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, and University of Chicago. The Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Yale New Haven Hospital, The Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Philadelphia Free Library, Philadelphia, PA, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA, Harpo Productions, Chicago, Il, Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA, Embassy Suites Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Lucent Technologies, New York, NY.
She has been included in numerous exhibitions including: Creating Vital Space 50 years of prints by Black Artists
along with Elizabeth Catlett, Sam Gilliam, Betye Saar Charles white and others.
Art on Paper, Pier 36 New York with Romare Bearden, Beauford Delaney, Dox Thrash and others. less