Cecil Herring

International Digital Artists Show works at Cologne Art Fair, 2004 at the Palladium, an old building.
Cecil showed 4 works on a 30 foot high building.

Solo Show at Fifth Avenue Gallery in Melbourne, Florida, Sept. 2001. Spacescapes works, painting, digital art, sculpture

A bronze sculpture entitled "Modern Maid," by Cecil Herring was exhibited in the International Flower Show in the sculpture Garden
EPCOT at Disney World, May, 2004. The work modeled from studies of Joan of Arc was created to highlilght women's struggle
to achieve equality in art and in government.

A sterling silver eagle pendant, created for First Lady Betty Ford, wife of U.S. President Gerald R. Ford,
by Titusville artist Cecil Herring, was commissioned by Creel School and given at the dedication held June 30, 1976.

Florida Artist Cecil Herring loves everything about space and her work Cassini Tracking Saturn I,
a mixed media work on plexiglass, is one of many of her Spacescapes.

CCecil Herring created her signature style called Spacescapes® a spiritual connection to space after she spent years working as a space reporter photographer covering the Apollo Moon Program at Cape Kennedy. Seeing giant space ships lifting off the launch pad 2.8 miles from the press site does something to a person, she says. "I dedicated my art to space ideas in art. Humans are spiritual creatures and divine because we can see the colors of nature and can communicate that beauty in many forms of art."
Cecil's website is at

at Grand Bohemian Gallery, Orlando, FL
June 15, 2006 - August, 20,2006

The opulent downtown gallery was filled with works from France and Florida for this event hosted by the Grand Bohemian Hotel Gallery. Several hundred attended the opening.

Cecil Herring loves to make art in the many media she uses: oils, watercolors, acrylic, sculpture in bronze, electroforming, welded steel, copper, aluminum, plastics, one of a kind experimental jewelry, wearable art, and digital art.

A native of Miami, FL Cecil has shown internationally in Beijing, China, Cologne, Germany and across the U.S. in New York, Miami, San Francisco, other Florida cities as well as Southern states of Alabama, North Carolina and Georgia. She has had 33 solo shows and more than 100 juried, group invitational exhibits.

Working as writer-photographer for Florida Today, Melbourne Times, Fairchild Publications and Reuters News Services, Cecil covered the Apollo Moon Program at the Cape including the troubled Apollo 13 mission, subject of, “The Right Stuff.”

She photographed, interviewed and wrote feature stories about German rocket scientist Dr. Wernher von Braun on Apollo 11 launch day, Russian Poet Yvgeny Yevtechenko, Dr. Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and Mel Fisher, discoverer of the Atocha, the sunken 16th century Spanich galleon and Dame Sybil Leek for Time Magazine. Cecil won a Penney-Missouri Journalism Award for her feature stories at Florida Today.

Recently, Discovery Channel’s production company interviewed Cecil about her involvement with the Apollo 13 launch. The interview is scheduled to air in 2006.

Seeing rocket launches, meeting astronauts and rocket scientists inspired Cecil's lifelong interest in space travel and space art. Her first sculpture installation was called Spacescapes®, at Center Gallery, 49 W. 57th St. NYC., October, 1971. Channel 7, ABC NEWS covered the show on its 6 p.m. news program in Manhattan.

Cecil studied art at U. of Florida, Seminole Community College, Arrowmont School of Crafts and received her Bachelor of Arts in Humanities the Arts, sculpture, painting, writing, theatre, and music at University of Central Florida in 1986.

In the early 80s, she got sick from all her metal work and told to gave up welding and plating and all metal working. She was able to continued creating models in wax and non toxic materials. She now supervises castings at a foundry, along with the polishing and patinaes.

Continuing her search for 'clean' media, she discovered digital art and computer generated art. She studied for almost 2 years, received certification in Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark and Painter in 1995. In 1995, her digital work was incuded in WWOL, "World's Women On-Line," a digital presentation sponsored by the United Nations and shown by battery powered computer at the 10th Women's Conference in Beijing, China. She helped set up a digital art institute and taught digital art at Stetson University in 1996-1997. In 2000, she won a Kodak Innovator Award for large format digital printing."Koi" her digital art work created from 4 photos was published in Photography, 7th Edition, Prentice Hall. P. 246 2001. In 2004, her digital works were included in Art Fair, in Cologne, Germany, beamed on a 30 foot Electronic Wall at the Palladium.
For the past 3 years, Cecil has begun artistically recording Florida’s fast disappearing wilderness and countryside. She has taken hundreds of photos and painted more than 50 paintings with Florida landscapes, seascapes and florals as subjects. More recently, she has swung back to Spacescapes®. "Just saying Spacescapes® reminds me of what I am about - taking all my work into total abstraction - into the spiritual realm - that layer above and beyond reality."

Cecil has had 33 solo shows, over 100 juried, group invitationals in Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Miami, New York, and San Francisco. She was in the Festival of the Masters, Disney World, 8 times, and Winter Park Sidewalk Show 9 times. She has had feature articles written in Plating and Surface Finishing Magazine, Humana Magazine, Miami Herald, Florida Today, Orlando Sentinel, Daytona New Journal, London Telegraph.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS: Memorial Hospital, Savannah, GA, Lane Bryant Collections, Florida, Orlando Modern Art Collection, 1st Lady Betty Ford, Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, Kodak, Rochester, N.Y.,Titusville City Hall, Saint Charles Cathedral, Orlando, University of Florida Medical Center Library, Gainesville, First Presbyterian Church of Orlando, Americatel Corp., Miami, Phase 2 Publishing, Los Angeles, CA, Heart of Florida, United Way, Orlando, Paulucci Enterprises, Sanford, ReMax Realty, Indialantic, FL, Crealde Sculpture Garden, Winter Park, FL and private collectors across the U.S.

SELECTED SHOWS
Avalon Gallery, Orlando, Marriott Hotel Downtown Gallery, Orlando, EPCOT International Flower Show Sculpture Garden, Walt Disney World, Grand Bohemian Hotel Gallery, Orlando, Cologne Art Fair, Wachovia Financial Center, Orlando, Artist of the Month - Orlando Museum Shop, Orlando, Seminole Community College, Joan Ling Gallery, Gainesville, FL, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Maitland Art Center, Brevard Community College, Cocoa, FL, Duncan Gallery, Stetson U., DeLand, FL, Gallery Three, Miami, U. S Air Force Space Museum, Cape Canaveral, FL, Center Art Gallery, New York, NY NYMosconi Hall, San Francisco, CA. Also see web gallery.

Story about Cecil Herring's Spacescapes® in Orlando Sentinel.
"Finding her Space" Whether in life or art, Cecil Herring always has defied the gravity of convention.
by Jean Patteson, Sentinel Staff Writer.

Thousands of artists are inspired by Florida's flora and fauna, sandy beaches and showy sunsets.
Not Cecil Herring.
"Space is my inspiration, " says Herring, a diminutive firebrand of an artist from Deltona, who first touched brush to canvas almost 50 year ago.
During November, she has been the guest artist in "A Feast for the Senses," a monthly art show, dinner and wine tasting at the Orlando Marriott Downtown, and in January her work will be featured in an exhibition at the Downtown Media Arts Center.
Herring's otherworldly paintings, sculptures and digitally enhanced prints are "Spacescapes," a term, she coined in the early 1970s when she first caught space fever.
At the time, she was a cub reporter in Melbourne, covering the space beat for fledgling Today Newspaper and rubbing shoulders with such notables as rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, physicist Edward Teller, "The Right Stuff" author, Thomas Wolfe and the Apollo-mission astronauts.
"Those were the days," sighs Herring, her sea green eyes growing misty with memories. Mostly, though her eyes sparkle - as does her conversation.
One moment she's reminiscing about campaigning for her late husband, former Seminole Brevard State Attorney Abbott Herring. The next, she's discussing the music of Phillip Glass or the teachings of mythologist Joseph Campbell. Then, it's back to art.
"I can tell my life story in my art" she says as she moves through her house, flipping switches to illuminate the vivid paintings that illuminate every wall, the fantastical sculptures suspended from every ceiling.

orlando Sentinel story by art critic Terry Hummel about artworks by Cecil Herring featured at Marriott Downtown Gallery Dinner

First Lady Betty Ford, holds Sterling Eagle Pendant created by Brevard County Florida Artist Cecil Herring.
Cecil Herring was commissioned by the Brevard County School Board to create this sterling silver eagle pendant
as a gift for the First Lady Betty Ford on the occasion of Mrs Ford dedicating the new Creel Elementary School
in Eau Galle, FL,June, 1976 while the late President Gerald R. Ford was president of the United States of America.
The popular first lady came to Eau Gallie, FL to dedicate the school. Mrs. Ford was delighted with Cecil's custom designed and created pendant as she shows here. Mrs. Herring later received a signed thank you letter from the White House. The pendant is now in the Ford collection at the Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, MI

'Find your bliss,' the great Philosopher- Anthropologist Joseph Campbell advised. Campbell was right. I found my 'bliss' in 1956, 49 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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Selected Solo and Group Juried Shows
Grand Bohemian Hotel Gallery, Orlando, "Expressionist Landscapes" with Jean Claude Roy, France, June 15, 2006. continues Aug. 2006
DeBary Mansion, historic landmark, "Rediscovering Florida," 16 landscapes and florals of Florida, DeBary, FL. Sept. 1-30, 2005
Avalon Gallery, Orlando, Digital show, (see Glowfish, large digital print on canvas) Jan. 2004
Cologne Germany, Cologne Art Fair, "Electronic Wall," 12 International artists, US, Japan, Australia, Germany. Digital show. Oct. 2004
Marriott Hotel Gallery, Orlando, Spring show, 2004
EPCOT, Disney World, Orlando, Fl Bronze sculpture, April 2004
15 Spacescapes paintings,Ichiban Restaurant, Orlando, FL, Sept. 2003
"How my garden grows," floral oils and watercolors, Wachovia Financial Center, Orlando, FL, March -April, 2003
Spacescapes® 2002, Minos Gallery, Cocoa Village, FL, 2002
Paintings, Fifth Avenue Gallery, Melbourne, FL, 2001
Paintings, University of Central Florida Library Gallery, 2000-2001
Artist of the Month, Digital Art, Orlando Museum Shop, 1997
Digital Art, Osceola County Library, Kissimmee, FL, 1996
Beijing, China, World's Women On-Line, digital show sponsored by United Nations and Arizona State U., 1995.
Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL, 1984
Paintings, Sculpture, Wearable Art, Seminole Community College, Sanford, 1981
Wearable Art Fashion Show, Miami Fashion Council, 1980
Show, Joan Ling Gallery, Gainesville, 1979
"The Artful Christmas, " Joan Ling Gallery, Gainesville, 1980
Wearable Art, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL (2) 1979, 1980
Sculpture, Maitland Art Center, Maitland, FL, 1977
Wearable Art and Jewelry, Kelsey Jewelist, Indian Harbour Beach, FL 1976
Paintings, Florida Institute of Techology., Melbourne, FL, 1974
Spacescapes®, Port Malabar Country Club, Port Malabar, FL 1973
Spacescapes®, Duncan Gallery, Stetson U., DeLand, FL 1973
Spacescapes®, Gallery Three, Miami,FL, 1974
Spacescapes®,U. S Air Force Space Museum, Cape Canaveral, FL 1972
Paintings, Melbourne Public Library, Melbourne, FL, 1973
Spacescapes®, Center Art Gallery, New York, NY, 1971
Paintings, Gleason Auditorium, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 1973
Sculpture, Brevard Community College, Cocoa, FL (2), 1975, 1980
Paintings, Eau Gallie Public Library 1969
J. Hillis Miller Medical Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1964
Eau Gallie Public Library, Melbourne, FL 1966
University City Bank, Gainesville, FL 1964
SELECTED JURIED SHOWS (*Awards)
Avalon Gallery, 2 person show, Cecil Herring, Claire Lavin, Hardware vs Software, Jan. 1 - 31, 2004
Group Show, Marriott Hotel Downtown Gallery, Feb. - April, 2004
Group Show, Mayor's Gallery, Orlando City Hall, April - June, 2004
Group Show, Marriott Hotel Downtown Gallery, May 5 - July 30, 2004
EPCOT Sculpture Garden, International Flower and Garden Show, April-June, 2004
"Take a Byte," 2 person digital show, OVAL on Orange Gallery, May 2003
For the Love of Art, Avalon Gallery, Orlando, Feb. 2002
*Kodak Innovator Awards, Rochester, N.Y., 2000, digital, purchase award
"High Resolution" Digital Art in the 21st Century, BK Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College, Painesville, OH, Jan, 2002.
Spacescapes© Solo show , Fifth Avenue Gallery, Melbourne,Sept.,2001
10 Women, Orlando, paintings, digital art
NASA: JPL/NASA.gov/cassini website,1999
First Annual National All-Media Exhibition, Ridge Art Assoc., Winter Haven, FL, '97
Art & Technology Show Orlando Museum, 96, 97, 98, digital art work used for show poster '98.
"Digital Images," Palm Beach Community College,'95, digital art
Annual Women's Juried Show,St Thomas University, Miami, FL'94, digital art
Sarasota Art Center, Women's Caucus for Art, '95, digital art
*Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival, Winter Park, FL (9), paintings, sculpture
*Festival of the Masters, (7),Walt Disney World Village, FL, sculpture, wearable art
*Halifax Annual Art Festival, Ormond Beach, FL, sculpture
*Mount Dora Sidewalk Art Festival, sculpture, wearable art
*Indialantic Art Festival, sculpture
*Melbourne Art Festiva
*Miami Beach Festival of the Arts, wearable art
"A Salute to Belgium", Southeastern Crafts Invitational, Birmingham,AL, jewelry
Florida Sculptors' Society, Bacardi Gallery, Miami, sculpture
Loch Haven Art Center (OMA) Members Annual Juried Show, Orlando, FL, sculpture
Loch Haven Art Center (OMA), "Museum's Choice", sculpture
"Festival of States," St. Petersburg, FL, sculpture
*Coral Springs Artist Guild,Broward Community College, Davie, FL '94, Best of Show, oil portrait
****Broward Art Guild, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Motorola 6th Annual National Show, Chicago, IL, painting
Ringling Museum Crafts Show, Sarasota, FL, wearable art
Las Olas Sidewalk Art Festival, Fort Lauderdale, FL, sculpture
Gasperilla Art Festival, Tampa, FL, sculpture, wearable art
"Mainsails," St.Petersburg, sculpture
"Images," New Smyrna Beach, FL, wearable art
**Cocoa Village Art Festival, Cocoa Beach, FL, sculpture, wearable art
Brevard Art Center and Museum 1991 Members' Show, Melbourne, FL, painting
*Space Coast Art Festival, Cocoa Beach, FL, sculpture, paintings, wearable art
Rollins College, Cornell Fine Arts Center, Winter Park, FL, sculpture
"Oriental Rugs as Inspiration," Maitland Art Center, watercolor
"24 Collection," Wearable Art Collection, Miami, wearable art
"Art to Wear," Fashion Group of Miami, Miami, wearable art
"Electroformed," American Electroplaters'' Society, Mosconi Hall, San Francisco