Cheryl Tall
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b. 1946, Atlantic City, New Jersey
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
Baptist Hospital of Miami Foundation, Miami, FL
Braved Art Museum, Melbourne, FL
Burroughs-Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC
Chapin Memorial Library, Myrtle Beach, FL
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Mendelson Kosher Products, Miami Beach, FL
Sonesta Hotel, Miami, FL
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006-08 Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Local Colors, Escondido Arts Partnership, Escondido, CA
Agape, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
30 Ceramic Sculptors, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Form and Imagination, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
2006-07 World Views, Stifel Fine Arts Center, Ogleby Art Institute, Whelling, VA
2006 40 Over 40, Clay Place Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Salsita, Onda Art Latina Galleey, Portland, OR
Hot Flashes, Garrison Center for the Arts, Garrison, NY
2005 The Borders of Intimacy: Cheryl Tall and Patricia Frischer, Mesa College Art Gallery, San
Diego, CA
Mary Ogilvie Gallery, St. Anne's College, Oxford University, Oxford, England
Man's Best Friend, Santa Fe Clay Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Women on Top, Women's Historical Museum, San Diego, CA
2004 As I See Myself, Kentucky Museum of Art + Design, Louisville, KY
From Earth to Athenor:10 Sculptors, Midland Arts & Antiques Center, Indianapolis, IN
Black and White, Escondido Arts Partnership, Escondido, CA
2003 On the Edge, Ramsden Morrison Gallery, San Diego, CA
Clay Without Boundaries, Arts College International, San Diego, CA
2002 Cheryl Tall/Figurative Ceramic Sculpture, Sherwood Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Ring of Fire, Solo Exhibition, Washington State University Gallery, Pullman, WA
Contemporary Figurative Sculpture, Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Past Perfect/Present Tense, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL
Ceramic Focus, Onda Gallery, Portland, OR
2001 Cheryl Tall, Sculpture, Orlando Museum of Art Store, Orlando, FL
Looking In, Looking Out, Cheryl Tall and Lyda Toy, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Cheryl Tall: New Work, The Governor's Club, West Palm Beach, FL
2000 Cheryl Tall: Ceramic Sculpture, Metro-Dade Cultural Resource Center, Eyes and
Windows: Cheryl Tall & Rainey Dimmitt, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
Sculpture: Cheryl Tall, Rotunda Gallery, City of Orlando, Orlando, FL
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2006 500 Animals, Lark Books, Sterling Publications, NY
Judith Schwartz, Confrontational Ceramics, NY
2005 "Free at the center", Clay Times, September
2004 500 Animals in Clay, Lark Books, Asheville, NC
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Cheryl Tall's coil built sculptures range from ten inches to six feet in height and are painted with impressionistic hand with glazes and terra sigillatas and kiln fired. Tall makes her own glazes and terra sigillata,a special polychrome slip also used by Native American and early Greek potters. The highly textured finger marks, resembling shingles, are a hallmark of her sculpture. The artist's imagery focuses on the relationships between people and their subconscious, reinterpreted in an iconic way. Emotions and relationships are played out in human forms and merge with architecture. Eyes become windows, hair becomes a row of shingles and a head merges with animal or architectural shapes. The work often portrays two or more figures in close proximity, symbolizing the universal relationships of romantic partnerships, siblings, friends and neighbors.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
In this body of work, I am exploring issues of transformation, unity and duality. These archetypes can be used to explore modern life and provide an expansive canvas on which to pose my stories. These are stories about togetherness and apartness, created from the awareness that we are all, in one way or another, connected to oneanother.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
Baptist Hospital of Miami Foundation, Miami, FL
Braved Art Museum, Melbourne, FL
Burroughs-Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC
Chapin Memorial Library, Myrtle Beach, FL
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Mendelson Kosher Products, Miami Beach, FL
Sonesta Hotel, Miami, FL
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006-08 Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Local Colors, Escondido Arts Partnership, Escondido, CA
Agape, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
30 Ceramic Sculptors, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Form and Imagination, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
2006-07 World Views, Stifel Fine Arts Center, Ogleby Art Institute, Whelling, VA
2006 40 Over 40, Clay Place Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Salsita, Onda Art Latina Galleey, Portland, OR
Hot Flashes, Garrison Center for the Arts, Garrison, NY
2005 The Borders of Intimacy: Cheryl Tall and Patricia Frischer, Mesa College Art Gallery, San
Diego, CA
Mary Ogilvie Gallery, St. Anne's College, Oxford University, Oxford, England
Man's Best Friend, Santa Fe Clay Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Women on Top, Women's Historical Museum, San Diego, CA
2004 As I See Myself, Kentucky Museum of Art + Design, Louisville, KY
From Earth to Athenor:10 Sculptors, Midland Arts & Antiques Center, Indianapolis, IN
Black and White, Escondido Arts Partnership, Escondido, CA
2003 On the Edge, Ramsden Morrison Gallery, San Diego, CA
Clay Without Boundaries, Arts College International, San Diego, CA
2002 Cheryl Tall/Figurative Ceramic Sculpture, Sherwood Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Ring of Fire, Solo Exhibition, Washington State University Gallery, Pullman, WA
Contemporary Figurative Sculpture, Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Past Perfect/Present Tense, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL
Ceramic Focus, Onda Gallery, Portland, OR
2001 Cheryl Tall, Sculpture, Orlando Museum of Art Store, Orlando, FL
Looking In, Looking Out, Cheryl Tall and Lyda Toy, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Cheryl Tall: New Work, The Governor's Club, West Palm Beach, FL
2000 Cheryl Tall: Ceramic Sculpture, Metro-Dade Cultural Resource Center, Eyes and
Windows: Cheryl Tall & Rainey Dimmitt, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
Sculpture: Cheryl Tall, Rotunda Gallery, City of Orlando, Orlando, FL
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2006 500 Animals, Lark Books, Sterling Publications, NY
Judith Schwartz, Confrontational Ceramics, NY
2005 "Free at the center", Clay Times, September
2004 500 Animals in Clay, Lark Books, Asheville, NC
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Cheryl Tall's coil built sculptures range from ten inches to six feet in height and are painted with impressionistic hand with glazes and terra sigillatas and kiln fired. Tall makes her own glazes and terra sigillata,a special polychrome slip also used by Native American and early Greek potters. The highly textured finger marks, resembling shingles, are a hallmark of her sculpture. The artist's imagery focuses on the relationships between people and their subconscious, reinterpreted in an iconic way. Emotions and relationships are played out in human forms and merge with architecture. Eyes become windows, hair becomes a row of shingles and a head merges with animal or architectural shapes. The work often portrays two or more figures in close proximity, symbolizing the universal relationships of romantic partnerships, siblings, friends and neighbors.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
In this body of work, I am exploring issues of transformation, unity and duality. These archetypes can be used to explore modern life and provide an expansive canvas on which to pose my stories. These are stories about togetherness and apartness, created from the awareness that we are all, in one way or another, connected to oneanother.