ARTIST STATEMENT
In a throw away society building lasting items of beauty is an act of resistance. My work furthers this ethos by taking discarded materials, wood scrap, architectural salvage and turning it into items of artistry and permanence.

My media is primarily wood which I paint and shape creating abstract low relief assemblages. While abstract my work is not independent from visual reference or meaning. It is a modern typography, a visual dialogue, a story. I marvel at the artwork of children as their creations reflect a raw emotion, spontaneity, and narrative. I approach making in the same manner, open and connected to the elemental while addressing subjects from the pressing sociopolitical issues of the day to the ordinary and temporal. Inspiration is the unexpected; utilizing found objects and salvaged materials encourages improvisation and demands an immediacy.

My technical approach is radically free wielding by traditional woodworking standards. My desired effect is not symmetry or exacting ornamentation as in inlay but rather a more expressive painterly approach characterized by qualities of color and texture.

2023 Recipient of The Reece Museum Award.

2020-2021 Grant Recipient Regional Artist Project Northwest North Carolina.

2018-2019 Grant Recipient Regional Artist Project Northwest North Carolina.

In the Permanent Collection of The Maria V. Howard Art Center.

For more information please inquire at:
cherylprisco.art@gmail.com

REPRESENTED BY THE HAEN GALLERY
ASHEVILLE
52 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville, NC
BREVARD
210 S. Broad Street, Brevard, NC

UPCOMING EXHIBITION SCHEDULE February - May 2025: Asheville Strong. Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

February - May 2025: Handcrafted. Maria V. Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC

May 2025: Inosculation, Works by Cheryl & Richard Prisco. Arts & Culture Alliance, Knoxville, TN

PAST EXHIBITIONS Oct/NovDec 2023: August - October 2024: Intimate Group. Pullen Arts Center, Raleigh, NC

October - January 2024: FL3TCH3R. Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN. Recipient of the Reece Museum Award

July 2023: Tickled Pink . Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

May/June 2023: Recycle 2023 . BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Nov/Dec/Jan 2023/24: Wood & Paper . Williamsburg Art Center, Brooklyn, NY

May/June/July 2023: Together & Intertwined. Wilkes Art Gallery, Wilkesboro, NC
July 15 - November 6, 2021: Formation. Spartanburg Art Museum, SC

March 7 - October 2, 2021: Solo Show. Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC
Nov 21 - Dec 19, 2020: Fragments. Arc Gallery, San Francisco, California

Oct/Nov 2020: American Contemporary Craft. LHUCA Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX

Oct 2020: The Schwa Show. Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC

Dec/Jan 2020/19: Fine Contemporary Craft. Artspace - Gallery One, Raleigh, NC
2019: SOFA CHICAGO. Woman Made Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL

Sept/Oct 2019: CHROMA. The Kavanagh Gallery, Saint Charles, IL

August 2019: 22nd International Open. Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

2019: Artist in Residence. Edgewood Cottage, Blowing Rock, NC

May/June/July/Aug/Sept 2019: Cultural Traditions & Outside Visions. Annmarie Sculpture & Art Center, Solomons, MD

May/June/July/August 2019: 62nd National. Maria V. Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC Purchase Prize Recipient, Permanent Collection

May 2019: Freedom of Abstraction . Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY