Interdependent Parts
Cheryl BuchwaldBorn in Canada and raised in Canada and the United States, Cheryl Cowan Buchwald resides in Toronto. After a varied career in business, public service and academia, she now concentrates on visual art-making. Cheryl has studied art in Toronto and Paris and shown in both solo and juried group exhibitions. Her work is in private and corporate collections in Canada and the United States.
Science has always been a source of intimidation for Cheryl, a foreign and indecipherable subject. Yet, as an artist, she is attracted to the beauty of research images, adopts them as the inspiration for her work, and even finds herself drawn into the research behind the images. Cheryl’s work explores the extraordinary similarity she sees between the macro elements that describe the cosmos and the micro elements within life forms. The recognition of this relationship is a jumping-off point for considering the interconnectedness of all organisms and what that means for survival.
Cheryl’s technique for creating her experiments in paint is a combination of deliberate planning and serendipity. Each painting, on wood or paper, consists of layers of glazes and scumbling to create the illusion of depth. The ‘organisms’ she creates develop from suggestions of shapes randomly created with isopropyl alcohol and acrylic paint.
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WEBSITE: www.cherylbuchwald.com
EMAIL: cheryl.buchwald@sympatico.ca
Missing Matter 1
Dome 3
Fertilizer Natural
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