Cheryl Townsend

EXHIBITS

November 1998 / Church on the Green, Hudson
February 1999 / Cheryl’s Daily Grind, Akron
February 1999 / Zephyr cafe, Kent
April 1999 / Wild Goats Cafe, Kent
April 10, 1999 / Cultural Festival, Kent Roosevelt High School, Kent
May 2, 1999 / Woman Activist Conference, Kent State University, Kent
May - July 1999 / Mustard Seed, Fairlawn
June - August 1999 / Miracles, Tremont
June 27, 1999 / Poetry & Art, Rockefeller Green House, Cleveland Heights
August - October 1999 / Stow Arabica
September 10, 1999 / Mach Schau, 1*2*F*U Gallery, Akron
December 1999 / Imani Gallery, Kent
February 2000 / Studio 425, Kent
February 2000 / Art at the Powerhouse, Cleveland
March 2000 / Stow Arabica
March 2000 / ArtMetro, Cleveland
March 2000 / Semaphore I, Impecunious Art Gallery, Kent
April 1, 2000 / Cultural Festival, Kent Roosevelt High School, Kent
April 8 - 10 / Stow Community Show Case, Stow
May 13, 2000 / Open Studio Day, Kent
May 2000 / Women Artists Annual Celebration, Youngstown
June 2000 / Semaphore II, Impecunious Art Gallery, Kent
July 2000 / Studio 615, Tremont
August 2000 / Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibit, Columbus
August - September 2000 / In A Bind, Lakewood
September 200 / Stow Public Library, Stow
September 2000 Borders Books, Fairlawn
October 2000 / City Buddha, Lakewood
October - November 2000 / Dance Macabre, Dead Horse Gallery, Lakewood
March 2001 / ArtMetro, Cleveland
August 2001 / Pier W Deckfest, Lakewood
November - December 2001 / His & Hers: Nude in Two Views, Illinois Central College, E. Peoria, IL
April 2001 / Womanizing, Blue Ruin Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
September 2001 / Bellysweet Girls, Blue Ruin Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
February 2002 / North Water Street Gallery, Kent
March 2002 / ArtMetro, Cleveland
April 2002 / NorJea Gallery, Akron
May 2002 / Women Artists Annual Celebration, Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown
November 2003 / North Water Street Gallery
March 2004 / North Water Street Gallery, Kent
July 2004 / ECC Cultural Center / Kent
September 2004 / Kent Osteopathic Medical Clinic, Kent
March 2005 / Mateo's / Akron
February - March 2006 / Wild Goats Cafe, Kent
March 2006 / North Water Street Gallery, Kent



MAGAZINES

Main Street Mag, Winter 1999 / Cover and Featured Artist
Charlotte, NC
Parting Gifts, December 1999 / Front Cover
Greensboro, NC
Slipstream, Fall 2000 / Front Cover and Featured Artist
Niagara Falls, NY
SharZayne, Spring 2001 / Front Cover
Porterville, CA
Urban Spaghetti #4, 2001 / Featured Artist
Mansfield, OH



E-ZINES

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The City
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Deep Cleveland
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Poesy
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Peshekee River Poetry
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Verse Libre
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Children, Churches & Daddies

Antipatico

In my photography, I seek overlooked angles and textured forms, vibrant displays of discarded beauty and grains. Looking for the tree in the forest, I focus further on the patterns in the bark. My vision is everyday objects abstracted via detailed selection. I seek blatant colors juxtaposed with decay to project the beauty in its passing. In the human form, I try to show the sensuality in non sexual captures, to play on shadows and the bends of flesh. I always shoot with a zoom lens, leaving the picture to find me, rather than I to find the picture. I hope to prove that art can be found anywhere if one would just take a moment to look.