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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 Galleries:
Leche-Vitrines Art Alliance
Inc.
3038 N. Federal
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Serious Studios Gallery
Galveston Island, Texas
Grand Bohemian Gallery,
Weston Grand Bohemian Hotel
325 S. Orange Ave.,
Orlando, FL 32801
Riverhouse Pottery Artisan
Gift Gallery
118 S. Palmetto Ave.
Sanford, FL 32771
Inquiries Welcomed.
386-789-8010 or cherring@...
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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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Exhibitions for Cecil Herring:
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Cecil Herring has been a practicing artist for 49 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.
Miami native Cecil began art studies at 21 in Miami at an evening adult art class in North Miami High School for $1 per 9 weeks with Patrick DeLong. She went on to study at Pensacola Jr. College, Pensacola Art Center, Seminole Com. College where she received an AA in 1983. She continued at U. of Florida while her husband Abbott studied for a Juris Doctor. Later she received Bachelor of Arts in Humanities, the Arts, painting, sculpture, music, theatre and creative writing at U.C.F. in 1986.
She also studied painting at the U. of Florida with Hiram Williams, and P.R. McIntosh and Emil Holzhauer, both students of great American Impressionist Robert Henri. Cecil also studied welding, electroforming, wearable art and jewelry at Arrowmont School of Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN and independent study with well known jeweler Ruth Roach in Bradenton.
Her paintings, sculptures, wearable art works, experimental mixed media works and one of a kind jewelry pieces are in many collections. To pay for all the materials and study, Cecil worked as a photojournalist and feature writer for Florida Today, Melbourne Times, Reuters and Fairchild Publications for over 9 years while also tending her family of husband Abbott and 4 children.
She has been invited to exhibit works online on websites in many countries including the NASA website. Her website with her registered domain and trademarked name is at http://www.spacescapes.com. She studied digital art at McFatter Technical School in 1995 receiving certification in Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark and Painter.
In 1996, by invitation from Stetson U. computer and art departments, she helped set up the Digital Institute at Stetson U., Deland and taught Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark and Painter 1996-97.
In 1995, her digital work was shown in Beijing, China at the 4th Women's Congress sponsored by the United Nations at a pioneering computer event called World’s Women On-line at http://wwol.inre.asu.edu/ chaired by Sen. Hillary Clinton, now running for President of the U.S.
At Cologne Art Fair 2004, Germany, 5 digital creations were alternatively beamed on a 30 ft. wall at an old brick munitions factory now a major art venue in Cologne and Europe. Thousands attended the so called "Electronic Wall" in the International Invitational Show with 12 artists from Japan, U.S. Australia and Germany.
Cecil won a Kodak Innovator Award for large format digital work printed on a 36" Encad Novajet printer that was exhibited at Siggraph 2001 in Mascone Hall in San Francisco. She had a digital work "Koi" published in Photography, 7th Ed. Prentice Hall. Her works are included in many websites.
See Cecil Herring, Google or Spacescapes on any search engine. She has worked for over 50 years as an artist.
Most recently, she began to focus on her own home area of Central Florida where she has lived for 40 years. She fell in love with Florida landscapes and seascapes and has painted more than 50 works in her new Central Florida series. She still creates works in mixed media, sculpture and digital works.
Selected Shows S - Solo I – Invitational, (all juried shows)
1959 – Motorola Annual National Show, Chicago, Ill
1959 - Florida Federated Arts, DeBary Museum Show, DeBary, FL
Solo 1964 – Paintings, J. Hillis Miller Medical Center, U. of FL
1971 – Festival of States, St. Petersburg, FL
Solo 1971 - Spacescapes® installation NYC, 49 W. 57th Street, New York, N.Y.
Solo 1972 - Spacescapes®, installation, Sampson Art Gallery, Stetson University
Solo 1972- Spacescapes®, Air Force Space Museum, Cape Canaveral
Solo 1972 - Spacescapes, Gallery Three, Miami
1972- Group Juried Sculpture Show, Florida Sculpture Society, Bacardi Gallery, Miami
1974 – Mainsails, St. Petersburg, FL
1974 - Stephen Foster memorial Craft Competition, White Springs, FL
Solo 1975 & 1977 Sculpture Shows, Maitland Art Center, Maitland, FL
1977 - created logo jewelry for Maitland Center for the Arts, sterling earrings for the women, key ring silver pendant for men on the board.
Solo 1975 - Sculpture, Brevard Community College, Cocoa, FL
Solo 1976 - Wearable Art and Jewelry, Kelsey Jewelist, Indian Harbour Beach, FL
1977 - Members’ Juried Show, Loch Haven Art Center and Museum, Orlando
1979 - Museums’ Choice, Loch Haven Art Center and Museum (OMA)
1979 – A Salute to Belgium, Southeastern Crafts Invitational, Birmingham Museum, AL
Solo - 1979 – “24 Collection,” Womens Boutique at The Falls, Miami.
Solo 1979 – Wearable Art, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami
Solo 1980 – The Artful Christmas, Joan Ling Gallery, Gainesville, FL
1981- Art to Wear, Miami Fashion Council, invitational
Solo 1981 –Multimedia Show, Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL
1984 – Maitland Art Center and Museum Fund Raiser.
1983 - Fellowship at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Mia Westerlund Roosen, sculptor, (Edward Albee and Reynolds Price)
1983 –“ SurFin,” metals use, national symposium and trade show at Moscone Hall, San Francisco. I invited by Director and Plating and Surface Finishing Magazine to exhibit my electroformed scupture and jewery as part of .
Cover story in Plating and Surface Finishing Magazine about my work in electroforming. Gave Lectures and workshops in this medium. Gave a workshop at Daytona Beach Community College.
1983 – served on Art Selection Committee for Fifth District Court of Appeals new courthouse.
5 years out for severe illness and tragic losses, lost husband the late Abbott Herring, and mother and father, the late Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Darby.
Received AA cum laude, Seminole Community College, 1984
Received BA degree in Humanities, the Arts, painting, sculpture, theatre, music, creative writing, UCF 1986
I - 1988 – Oriental Rugs as Inspiration, Maitland Center
I - 1989 – Rollins College, Cornell Fine Arts Center, Winter Park, FL
1991 – 40th Anniversary Exhibition Broward Art Guild
1991 - Brevard Art Center and Museum, Member’s Show, Melbourne
1992 - “Human Image exhibition,” Broward Art guild, 1ST Self Portrait Award.
Ft. Lauderdale, held at Broward Community College.
1993 -Bonnet Lily Invitational, Bonnet House, Ft. Lauderdale
1994 Coral Springs Artist Guild Broward Community College, Best of Show
1994 – Summer Garden Party, watercolor, Broward Art Guild, 3rd place
1994 “Justice and the Human Spirit,” 12 Women Artists, St. Thomas University, Miami
1995 – “East Meets West”, Sarasota Art Center Women’s Caucus for Art, Sarasota
1995 – “Bardo Passage Wave.“ digital work selected by Arizona State U. to be included in WWOL – world’s women on line, juried by Muriel Magenta, Arizona State U., to be shown in Beijing, China as part of United Nations 4th World Conference on Women – 800 women from all over the world. http://wwol.inre.asu.edu/
1995 – Electronic Images, Palm Beach Community College, Palm Beach, FL
1995 – Art and Technology Show, Orlando Museum
1996 – Art and Technology Show, Orlando Museum. Designed Show flyer.
Solo 1996 – Digital Art, Osceola County Library, Kissimmee, FL
1997 – 1 st Annual All-Media Exhibition Ridge Art Association, Winter Haven
1997 “Body Non Specific” Ridge Art Association, Winter Haven, FL
Solo - 1997 Orlando Museum Shop, Artist of the Month
1998 – NASA invited Cecil to show her painting Cassini Tracking Saturn I on the Cassini website at Cassini painting, 40 x 40 x 2, painted on plexiglass.
Solo 2000 - U. of Central Florida Library Gallery
2000 Won the 2 nd place Kodak National Innovator Award for large format digital printing. Work shown at Moscone Hall, San Francisco at Seybold 2000Digital Symposium. In Kodak Collection, Rochester, N.Y.
2001 – Digital work “Koi” was published in Photography, 7th Edition, published by Prentice-Hall
Solo 2001 – Fifth Avenue Gallery, Melbourne
I -2002 - “High Resolution: Digital Art in the 21st Century at Lake Erie College, Paynesville, Ohio. (12 artists)
Solo 2002 - Spacescapes® Minos Gallery – Cocoa, FL
Solo 2003 – “How My Garden Grows,” Wachovia Financial Center, Orlando, oils and acrylics.
Solo 2005 – DeBary Hall, DeBary, FL Florida Landscapes and Florals.
I - 2004 – “Electronic Wall,” a 30 foot digital wall at Cologne Art Fair, 2004, Germany
invited along with 12 digital artists from Germany, Japan, U.S., and Australia. Cologne Art Fair is held at the Palladium, one of the largest art venues in Europe. 4 digital works shown at the installation at http://www.spacescapes.com (home page view)
I - 2004
EPCOT, Bronze sculpture, exhibited at Walt Disney World, Sculpture Garden, International Flower Show.
2004 - Red is the Color of ...", Avalon Gallery, Orlando, BEST OF SHOW
Solo 2005 - DeBary Mansion, DeBary, FL Florida Landscapes and Florals
2006 – Grand Bohemian Hotel Gallery, Orlando, 2 person show “Expressionist Landscapes.” With Jean Claude Roy of France.
Other activities:
1999 - For the Millennium, invited to publish a paper on creating art on Mars, on website dedicated to training students, published at http://www.mars2030.net/ a web site jointly sponsored by NASA, The Getty Foundation, The White House, NEA, and the Planetary Society. http://mmp.planetary.org/artis/herrc/herrc70.htm
at Epcot sculpture garden, International flower and Garden Show, 2004 where she has a bronze sculpture on exhibition.
Juried Heathrow Show, 2005, Ft. Pierce, Amelia Island, Vero Beach Shows.
Served on selection committee for 5th District Court of Appeals, new building, Art in Putlic Places, Daytona Beach.
1983 - Fellowship, Atlantic for the Arts, Mia Westerlund Roosen, (Edward Albee, Reynolds Price)
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Feature stories in London Telegraph, Humana Magazine, Plating and Surface Finishing Magazine, The Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, Florida Today, Sanford Herald and Daytona News Journal. She has appeared on television Channel 7, ABC news New York, Channel 6, Orlando and has been filmed by area film makers Bill Suchy, Aaron Jordan and Mike Hirsch at Gaslight Productions. 2003.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
First Lady Betty Ford, Gerald R. Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, commission sterling silver pendant, commemorating the dedication of Creel Elementary School, Melbourne, FL Cecil received a letter from the White House with a photo of Mrs. Ford wearing the pendant.
Cocoa Beach High School, commission “Minute Man” 4’ copper sculpture
Brevard Symphony Orchestra, commission, bronze “Maestro” Award, Small bronze of Arturo Toscanini.
Purchase Award, sculpture “Zek” City of Titusville, Welded bronze and molded plastic.
7 bronze altar pieces for Saint Charles Cathedral commissioned by Orlando Diocese
U. Florida Medical Library, 5’ welded steel, “The Family”, commissioned by Gainesville Dental Guild
Heart of Florida, United Way, Orlando, commissioned 6 x 6 foot digital mural for United Way lobby in downtown Orlando.
First Presbyterian Church, Orlando, digital work, also part of Lord Byron Mass at Church presentation.
Americatel Corp., Miami, 25 digital original prints
Kodak, Rochester, N. Y. purchase award, Innovator Award for large format digital printing.
Orlando Modern Art Collection, oil painting, "Red is the color of..."
Phase 2 Publishing, Los Angeles, watercolors and digital works for corporate headquarters.
Ikon Corp., commissioned poster, Orlando,
"Man with 3 Arms" a 7' bronze welded sculpture, located in Crealde Sculpture Garden, Winter Park.
Grand Bohemian Hotel, Orlando
Lane Bryant Stores of Florida, 4 paintings
United Way of Central Florida, Mural Plaque and portraits, (commission)
Paulucci Enterprises, Sanford, FL Sculpture
ReMax Realty, Indialantic, FL paintings
Memorial Hospital, Savannah, GA, paintings
Goldfield Corp, Melbourne, Bronze Wall Hanging, commission
Private collections in Europe, Norway and the U. S. A.
Cecil's studio is at 3242 Bretton Woods Terrace, Deltona, FL 32725,
ph. 386-789-8010 or 386-717-4208.
Website:
http://www.spacescapes.com/
e-mail: cherring@spacescapes.com
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