ABOUT THE ARTIST
Cheryl Cabrera is a New Orleans native. She’s a graduate of Mount Carmel Academy, the University of Southwestern Louisiana and the University of New Orleans where she received her degree in art education. She is currently a professor of 3D Animation at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she, also, received her MFA.

This is her fourth exhibition at the gallery, and she furthers her experimentation with technology, continuing to use the computer as a tool in her work. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions and her works are in private collections throughout the United States.

HER OWN WORDS
Inspired by a road trip across the country from Oregon back to Georgia, I wanted to create a series of landscapes that captured the essence of the trip; not only the brilliant colors of the day ending with sunset but also including the feeling of motion, as you would see in a blurred photograph taken from the window of a moving car. I wanted to create paintings that would show the tranquility and beauty of our country.

For this show I wanted to continue my goal of blurring the line between digital imagery and the traditional painting medium. The images are created on the computer but painted onto the canvas using oils. With the computer, I manipulate and refine the original photograph by adding motion blur and increasing the color saturation. Once I achieve the desired image, it becomes a sketch of the final painting.