Cheryl Petty

Cheryl Petty received a BA in painting from UCLA in 1971 and relocated to Dunsmuir, California, in 1992.  Her small studio and art gallery is at the site of her nursery, the Window Box Bonsai Accents and Art Gallery in Dunsmuir, California, on Sacramento Avenue, the “Avenue of the Arts” in the historic downtown.  Petty has also exhibited locally with the Siskiyou Artists Association, Siskiyou Arts Council, Dunsmuir Art Walk, the North Valley Art League, Studio Experience, and Redding Second Saturday Art Hop.

ARTIST STATEMENT

“Using the mind resembles using a camera. If one can achieve absolute oneness with what appears as the multifomity of the world, one can unify the fragments of one’s mind and focus one’s mental camera instantly to receive a clear and accurate picture of reality. The influence of Van Gogh on my art is easy to detect. I try to translate information into a composition that energizes and evokes memory and emotion from nature. This process unifies the overwhelming amount of information about a scene and focuses the mind to capture in the moment of the painting a clear and accurate picture of reality. Realism or naturalism is synonymous with dualism and lacks the objectivity of abstract ideas. Eventually the artist runs up against this problem:  How far can one reduce representation of objects without lapsing into decorative patterning? And how does one address ideas in this format? Abstract Modernism offers answers by allowing polyphony or simultaneity of several independent themes~ each element or theme is a distillation of several ideas and personal experiences.”

Contact Cheryl at (530) 235.0963 or wbn@snowcrest.net.

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Lights, Fog, Winds, Grasses from Cheryl Petty on Vimeo.