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Artist Statement:
"Find your bliss, " the great
Philosopher- Anthropologist
Joseph Campbell advised.
Campbell was right. I found my
'bliss' in 1956, 50 years ago.
I have loved every minute I
have spent creating art works
and to this day I still love
my time spent painting and
sculpting. Time stops and I...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Cecil Herring has been a
practicing artist for 52 years
and has shown sculpture,
paintings, digital art,
wearable art and jewelry in
galleries and museums
internationally and in San
Francisco, Cologne, Germany,
Beijing, China, New York,
Miami, Orlando across the U.S.
and Florida. Her works are
collected internationally in
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Artist Galleries:
absolutearts.com
Riverhouse Pottery Artisan
Gift Gallery
118 S. Palmetto Ave.
Sanford, FL 32771
Inquiries Welcomed.
386-789-8010 or
cherring@spacescapes.com
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Artist Reviews:
RECENT MEDIA
Orlando Sentinel, Calendar,
June 16-22, 2006, "The Grand
Bohemian Hotel's gallery has
the work of Cecil Herring (who
has won many awards, including
the very prestigious Kodak
Award.) Herring's work is
always colorful and varies
from mixed media paintings of
landscapes and spacescapes to
abstracts." ...
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Collections:
Orlando Modern Art Collection,
Purchase Award, Orlando, FL,
USA
Memorial Hospital, Savannah,
GA
First Lady Betty Ford, Ford
Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Kodak, Rochester, N.Y., USA
Lane Bryant Stores, Florida
City of Titusville, FL, USA
Gainesville Dental Guild
commissioned steel 5'
sculpture for University of
FLorida Medical Library, ...
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Commissions:
First Lady Betty Ford,
sterling silver pendant
commissioned to commemorate
Creel Elementary School
dedication by Mrs. Ford, Eau
Gallie, FL, 1976. Pendant now
located in the Gerald R. Ford
Museum, Grand Rapids, MI.
Minute Man High School, Cocoa
Beach, FL commissioned
"Minuteman" 4' copper
electroformed sculpture for
school lobby, 1976.
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Further Information
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Artist Galleries:
absolutearts.com
Riverhouse Pottery Artisan
Gift Gallery
118 S. Palmetto Ave.
Sanford, FL 32771
Inquiries Welcomed.
386-789-8010 or
cherring@spacescapes.com
...
Further Information
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Artist Reviews:
RECENT MEDIA
Orlando Sentinel, Calendar,
June 16-22, 2006, "The Grand
Bohemian Hotel's gallery has
the work of Cecil Herring (who
has won many awards, including
the very prestigious Kodak
Award.) Herring's work is
always colorful and varies
from mixed media paintings of
landscapes and spacescapes to
abstracts." ...
Further Information
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Collections:
Orlando Modern Art Collection,
Purchase Award, Orlando, FL,
USA
Memorial Hospital, Savannah,
GA
First Lady Betty Ford, Ford
Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Kodak, Rochester, N.Y., USA
Lane Bryant Stores, Florida
City of Titusville, FL, USA
Gainesville Dental Guild
commissioned steel 5'
sculpture for University of
FLorida Medical Library, ...
Further Information
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Commissions:
First Lady Betty Ford,
sterling silver pendant
commissioned to commemorate
Creel Elementary School
dedication by Mrs. Ford, Eau
Gallie, FL, 1976. Pendant now
located in the Gerald R. Ford
Museum, Grand Rapids, MI.
Minute Man High School, Cocoa
Beach, FL commissioned
"Minuteman" 4' copper
electroformed sculpture for
school lobby, 1976.
...
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Cecil Herring Biography:
Biographical information for Cecil Herring can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
4
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Post Graduate Work |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Writing an opera, composing Spacescapes® music on keyboard. Latest compositions are Moon Beam Concerto #3 and Going to Ganymede and painting works to go with these musical works. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Other
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Abstract Expressionism - (1940 - 1955)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Rembrandt, George Bellows, Pollack
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Christo's Wrapped Bahamas
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
I saw a play in Miami when I was about 4. I still remember hearing the actors say they were going to make paint out of flowers! Blue paint came from blue flowers, red paint from red flowers they said as they held these big bunches of flowers. They made a good appearance of smashing the flowers, pretending they were making paint and then painted a picture! I was enthralled. After that, I always made art. I was very destructive though and tore up stuff around the house to make art. I painted the etched flowers on the crystal glasses with nail polish, cut up books to make paper dolls, cut up my baby dresses to make doll clothes, made mud pies, tinfoil sculptures, I had a huge ball of Hershey candy wrappers. I created a table top paper farm, colored with crayons, complete with rows of vegetables and fences and a barn with animals. My father took me to see many events. We were always going to see air shows, to watch planes land and take off at the airport, read me Edgar Rice Burrough's A Princess of Mars. I think I got my love of space from my father. He had big binoculars and had me look at Mars - the red planet he said. We went to parades, the circus, and rode around looking at things, going to the beach, driving all over the place. There was a lot to see in Miami. And I've just always been an artist. He was a professional boxer and we went to the fights. He taught me to train using wall pulleys and jumping rope and taught me to shoot snakes in the Tamiami Canal with a 22 rifle. We went to parades, air shows, the airport, the shipping port, the docks where fishing boats came in. There was a taxidermist who had all these beautiful colored fish hanging all around. I had a great childhood until my brat brother was born. He broke up all the fun because I had to mind him from then on. I got married as soon as I could at 19 and got my home and started painting for life plus giving birth to 4 beautiful children all my little models. They have dozens of portraits! |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I started breaking up things at home when I was about 2. painted the crystal with nail polish, cut pictures out of my fathers physical fitness books and made paper dolls, cut up my silk dresses to make doll clothes. Made a tea set out of tin foil, a farm out of paper, started piano lessons at 6. I love making art out of anything. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Biography: Cecil Herring has shown her paintings, sculpture, digital art, wearable art, photography in galleries and museums all over the world since 1958. She has created works in many media, blazing trails in new technology including electroforming metals, creating works in polyvinyl chloride sculpture created using welding and sprayable vinyl. Her first New York show was Spacescapes© held at Center Gallery, 49 W. 57th Street, NYC. This show received notice in New York Times, London Telegraph and ABC TV News on the 6 p.m. newscast in New York. The Spacescapes© sculpture show traveled to Air Force Space Museum, and North Miami Gallery and Stetson University in Deland, FL. Later, she began to explore a plating metal forming technology called electroforming. She was invited to show her collection of wearable light weight jewelry and body sculpture at Mosconi Hall in San Francisco at SurFin International Convention after her cover story in Surface Finishing magazine. After being hospitalized with metal poisoning, she turned to digital technology in the late 80s and studied this new medium, after receiving her BA in Humanities the Arts, sculpture, painting, writing, theatre and music at U. of Central Florida. She won a large format digital printing award from Kodak and showed her large digital prints Siggraph 2001, at Mosconi Hall in San Francisco. Her digital works are in many collections including Kodak, in Germany and the U.S. and on-line at NASA.gov with her work on Cassini Saturn Mission. She has collectors in Norway, Germany, Spain and across Europe and the U.S. Currently, she exhibits her art works in galleries and on the internet and in her on-line gallery http://wwwspacescapes.com
A Miami native, she began painting at age 19, later studying at U. of Florida, U.C.F., Arrowmont School of Crafts. She financed her art work and training by being a writer/photographer for Florida Today covering the Apollo Moon Program at the Cape 1967-76, meeting astronauts and Dr. Wernher von Braun and winning a Penney-Missouri Journalism Award. She received a BA in Humanities-the Arts, painting, sculpture, music, theater and writing, at U.C.F. in 1986. In 1988 she began computer art training, graduating from McFatter Technical School, Davie, FL.
She first showed an original digital painting in 1995 in "WWOL, World's Women On-Line," Beijing, China for 4th Women's Congress sponsored by the United Nations and chaired by Hillary Clinton. She won a Kodak National Innovator Award, for large format digital prints, shown at Seybold, 2000, San Francisco. Koi, an original digital work was published in Photography, 7th Ed. Prentice Hall, 2001. She sells her original paintings and prints in many countries. Her works are in many collections including a sterling silver eagle pendant commissioned for First lady Betty Ford, Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, Kodak, Rochester, N.Y., a large oil painting, Orlando Modern Art Collection, Phase II Publishing, Los Angeles, steel sculpture commissioned for U. of F. Medical Library Collection, Purchase Award Bronze Sculpture for City of Titusville, bronze Altar pieces, St. Charles Cathedral, Orlando, 7 foot welded bronze sculpture "Man with 3 Arms," Crealde Sculpture Garden, Winter Park and numerous private collectors. In 2008, Cecil was accepted (a juried show) into the Florida Biennial with an 80 x 30 inch panorama of the St. John's River at Florida Museum. Currently she is creating a collection of boxing painting in homage to her namesake father Cecil J. Darby, a professional boxer, wrestler, and race car driver. |
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| Artist Statement |
"Find your bliss, " the great Philosopher- Anthropologist Joseph Campbell advised. Campbell was right. I found my 'bliss' in 1956, 50 years ago. I have loved every minute I have spent creating art works and to this day I still love my time spent painting and sculpting. Time stops and I don't age!
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