I create, I laugh, I eat, therefore....

Artist Statement
I'm a visual storyteller trying to convey experiences, thoughts and moods through expressive and poetic images.

Favorite Medium
oil on canvas, watercolor, graphite, Photoshop.

I Would Like to Network With
artists, painters, writers, poets, animators, film makers, concept artists, anyone creative and nice.

Occupation:
animation artist, painter, illustrator, writer

College:
Academy of Art University

High school:
Holy Names

Website URL:
www.cherylcruz.us

I would like to meet:
U2, Barack Obama, Prince William, Bruce Springsteen, Oprah Winfrey, Salman Rushdie, Deepok Chopra, Maya Angelou and the Dalai Lama. And, if I could go back in time, Abigail Adams, Mary Cassatt and Julia Child.

Favorite bands and musicians:
U2, Bruce Springsteen, the Decemberists, Smashing Pumpkins, Mozart, Vivaldi.

Favorite movies:
Amelie, An American In Paris, Howl's Moving Castle, Pride and Prejudice.

Favorite TV shows:
Frasier (comfort food tv), No Reservations, Samantha Brown (I want his/her job), Ghost Adventures (freaks me out), Grey's Anatomy (how will it end?), The Office (?).

Favorite places:
The Musee D'Orsay, the Met, Walt Disney World, movie theatres, Tokyo, Paris, London, anywhere with good food and drinks, on my couch watching tv.

Favorite artists:
Again with the artist list? H. Bosch, Johannes Vermeer and Artemesia Gentileschi...Mary Cassat and Berthe Morisot...Daisuke Tsutsumi, Michael Knapp and Robert Mackenzie...Dermot Power...Michel Plessix...

Education:
College graduate

 
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    Les chats d'air
    Digital painting
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    Starbucks
    From my sketchbook, finished in Photoshop.
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    Beijing Restaurant
    Beijing Restaurant, oil on canvas, 18" x 24" x 2," 2008. On display at the art gallery Studio 333 (www.studio333.info).
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    Afternoon
    oil on canvas, 24 x 30
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    Temple Girls
    oil on canvas, 24 x 30
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    Brotherhood
    oil on canvas, 24 x 18
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    storyboard panels fr...
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    character sketches
    these are character designs from various professional projects and my sketchbook  
 
Favorite Photos
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    african american gothic
    a reproduction of American Gothic,  done with barrack and michelle obama
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    The Pear
    oil on canvas
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    What You Once were isn'...
    Oil on canvas, 66"x66" completed 2006
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    The Swimmer
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    Round Fairy House
    Once again, here is another gourd creation. (moss, bark, fake flowers, pebbles, gourd and marble.)
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    Chromosymphony - I I I -
    GAPAL Original Paintig Mixed media on paper
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    Not Just a Closet
    This diptych deals with the complicated process of self-awakening that resulted in my coming out of the closet. Even now, terms such as gay or coming out seem ...
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    Painting of Varanasi,...
    I took a morning photograph of some of the tens of thousands of people walking toward the Ganges in Varanasi, India for their prayers and bath. It was th...
 
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