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Featured Artist - Cheryl Kinderknecht
Friday, February 6th, 2009 (6:00 PM)
Runs through March 28th
Posted by: Baobab Tree Gallery & StudioThe Baobab Tree Gallery - Powerful mixed media paintings and collages through March 28th.  | The Baobab Tree Gallery
1113 12th Street West, Bradenton, FL 34205 [ Map it ] |  | Contact info: Chris and Gordon Turner, 941-447-3795, tchartturn@yahoo.com |
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Please join us in celebration of the Village's own Cheryl Kinderknecht (12th Ave. West) who has some beautiful new mixed media paintings and collages featured at The Baobab Tree Gallery. This exciting and colorful exhibit runs through March 28.
Cheryl will also have a large body of original work exhibited at The Studio at Gulf and Pine on Anna Maria Island beginning with an opening reception on Sunday Feb. 15 from 2-5pm. Exhibit on display through March 12th. Details follow...
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Cheryl Kinderknecht - - Artist’s Statement
Born into a large creative family, artistic expression of one kind or another has always played a central and defining role in my life’s journey. Over the years my art has served as the screen upon which I’ve projected my unfolding life stages, experiences and emotions. Dreams, metaphors, ancestral ties and sound shadows are conjured up from my inner landscape, while the shapes, textures and colors of nature and industry further support and inform my work.
My current projects primarily consist of mixed media paintings, collages and assemblages. Many of these works incorporate pieces of metal, the inclusion of words or numbers, and the use of thematic or repetitive shapes to create a sense of psychological, as well as physical, form and space. Although my formal training includes an undergraduate degree in art, I am most at home when I work from an intuitive perspective, letting the subconscious serve as the voice of my work.
Over the past 5 years my work has also been markedly influenced by the presence of retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative visual condition that interferes with light perception and significantly constricts visual fields. From a practical standpoint, this anomaly means that my view has been reduced to looking at life through a straw. With central vision only, I can see a small portion of whatever I’m working on at a time. My brain has gradually learned how to put disparate pieces together as I scan to create a new whole image in my mind’s eye. From an artistic standpoint, this skewed ability to see (or not see) provides my work with a novel perspective and is another reason why it’s more comfortable for me to work on a smaller scale.
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