Cheryl Medow: Envisioning Habitat

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COVER IMAGES: Saddle-billed Storks, 2014 © 2017 PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX. All rights reserved.

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CHERYL MEDOW Santa Monica art photographer Cheryl Medow creates images that entice the viewer to enter her world, both real and imagined.

Cheryl Medow’s background in the arts is diverse, but interconnected.

Medow studied ceramics at the famed Chouinard Institute and received a BA in Art from UCLA, concentrating on life drawing with charcoal and pastels. Continuing her art education, she studied printmaking at Hand Graphics in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

With a wealth of materials and techniques, Medow layers her photographs and weaves them together to create visual narratives.

There have been numerous articles written about her work. Avian Alchemy by Becca Cudmore was published by Audubon News/Culture on June 5, 2015, Proof. National Geographic - An Altered Reality by Becky Harlan along with National Geographics Sunday Stills, Sunday, July 12, 2015 and an article in Inspire Adobe Photoshop For The Birds by Alyssa Coppelman in August.

In 2016, Medow was included in the SLIDESHOW Night at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City, California. She received the Juror’s Award at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury Vermont for Great Blue Heron With Chicks Revisited and her print will be exhibited from March 23 through April 22 and White Ibis With Fish will be part of the Online Gallery Annex at PhotoPlace.

Medow was a finalist in the 89th Annual International Competition at The Print Center in Philadelphia given the Olcott Family Award. She is also a finalist at the LensCulture Earth Awards 2015.

In 2015, Medow’s images were exhibited at The G2 Gallery in Venice, CA and at Flock: Birds On The Brink / Ganna Walksa Lotusland, curated by Nancy Gifford, Montecito, California . Medow was selected for the Members’ 2015 Juried Exhibition at the Center for Photographic Arts in Carmel and had a solo exhibition at Cameraworks in Portland Oregon.

In 2014, Medow was selected as a Critical Mass finalist; awarded First Place at the Texas Photographic Society’s TPS:23 Competition, juried by Juror Susan kae Grant and 2nd Place in TPS: 27 Members Only Competition juried by Jim Casper, Founder and Editor of LensCulture. She received First Place from International Photography Awards in the Digitally Enhanced Category.

In 2013, she received a Special Mention of the Juror, David C. Hirsch Fine Art category in the Julia Margaret Cameron Competition and was a finalist in the 5th Pollux Awards.

Since first exhibiting her work in 2006, Medow has received many accolades and her work is held in many private collections. Her work was first published in Nash Editions: Photography and the Art of Digital Printing (New Riders, 2007) as well as 100 Artists of the West Coast II (Schiffer Books, 2009) and the North American Nature Photographers Association’s annual publication Expressions 2009.

Great Blue Heron at Rest, 2014

Great Egret Preening, 2014

Great Blue in the Rain, 2014

White Ibis with Fish, 2014

Roseate Spoonbills, 2013

Greater Flamingo, 2014

Cattle Egret and the Grasshopper, 2014

Grey Crowned Cranes, 2014

Snowy Portrait, 2014

Reddish Egret, 2014

Great Blue Heron with Chicks Revisited, 2014

Great Egrets, A Starry Night, 2014

Great Egrets in the Bayou, 2015

Tri-colored Heron, 2014

Snowys and Lily Pads, 2013

CHERYL MEDOW EXHIBITIONS 2017 Aviary Lafayette City Center Passageway, Griffin Museum, Boston, MA 2016 Critters PDNB Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2016 Flight PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont 2016 Animalia PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT 2016 Slideshow Night, Annenberg Space for Photography, Century City, CA 2015 Solo Exhibition – Cameraworks Gallery, Portland Oregon 2015 Members’ Juried Exhibition, Center For Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, juror Richard Gadd, Director, Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA 2015 Flock: Birds On The Brink, Lotusland, Montecito, CA, Curator Nancy Gifford 2015 Nature LA: Cheryl Medow, The G2 Gallery, Venice, CA 2014 TPS: Members Only Show, Odessa TX 2014 TPS:23 The International Competition Texas Photographic Society, TX, 2013 TPS 26th Annual Member Only Show, Texas Photographic Society, TX 2013 Map It Riverside Art Center. Los Angeles, CA 2013 Animals, Santa Fe Photographic Workshop Competition 2013 Birds In The Garden Solo Show, G22 Gallery, Boca Raton, FL 2012 Nature LA: Cheryl Medow, G2 Gallery, Venice, CA 2012 Group Show, Perfect Exposure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2011 In The Company of Birds, TAG Gallery, Bergamot Station, SM, CA 2010 Wild Wings, TAG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 2009 Flight of Fancy, Solo Show, TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2008 37th Annual National Juried Exhibition: Works on Paper, Here and Now, Glendale CA 2008 Julia Dean Alternative Show, The Julia Dean Photo Workshops, Venice, CA 2008 2nd Annual Art Exhibition The Heart Touch Project, Los Angeles, CA 2007 “Why Animals”? Topanga Canyon Invitational – Topanga Canyon Gallery, Topanga, CA 2007 ANIMALIA, TAG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

AWARDS 2016 Finalist, Clarence John Laughlin Award Awards, New Orleans Photo Alliance Juror Steven Albahari, Publisher of 21st Editions Photo Alliance 2016 Finalist, Critical Mass, Portland Oregon 2016 Juror’s Award, Animalia PhotoPlace Gallery, Traer Scott, Juror, Middlebury, VT 2015 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, First Prize Fine Art, Second Prize and Honorable Mention, 2nd Prize People’s Choice Award 2015 Finalist, LensCulture Earth Awards, jurors Francis Hodgson, Molly Roberts, Tetsura Ishida Kathy Moran, Melissa Ryan, Chris Jordan, Arianna Rinaldo, Ian Shive and Jim Casper 2015 Finalist, Critical Mass, Portland Oregon 2015 Finalist, Print Center, 89th Annual International Competition, The Olcott Family Award Jurors, Dan Byers nstitute of Contemporary Art, Boston and Tina Kukielski, Hillman Photography Initiative, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh 2015 Semi-finalist Audubon Competition 2015 2014 First Place, IPA, International Photographers Award, Special Category 2014 Second Place TPS Member Only Show, Juror Jim Casper, Lensculture 2014 First Prize Texas Photographic Society – TPS:23 The International Competition, Juror Susan Kae Grant 2013 Honorable Mention, Map It, Riverside Art Center Gallery, MI 2013 Special Mention of Juror, Single Image, Juror Daivd G. Hirsch, Fine Art, Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2013 Honorable Mention, Animals, Santa Fe Photographic Workshop CompetitionJurors Crista Dix, Elizabeth Cheng Krist, Ian Shive, Reid Callanan 2013 Finalist, Animals and Wildlife, 5th Annual Pollux Award, 2012 Honorable Mention TPS: 21 International Competition, Juror Aline Smithson, Texas Photographic Society, Texas 2011 Finalist Photographer’s Forum, Best of Photography 2011 2009 Juror’s Choice Award, NANPA Showcase Journal, Expressions 2008 MTI Buiilders, Inc. Award, Here and Now Brand Library, Glendale CA 2007 Best In Show, Topanga Canyon Art Gallery, Topanga, CA

PUBLICATIONS AND ARTICLES 2016 Photographer’s Quarterly Magazine– Issue #4 Spring – by Jonathan Blaustein 2016 Animalia – An Exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery 2015 Monthly Photography: South Korea Magazine 2015 Slate.com article, written by David Rosenberg 2015 Inspire: Photoshop For The Birds, Written by Alyssa Coppelman 2015 Proof:National Geographic The Art Of Birds Revealed Through An Altered State, written by Becky Harlan 2015 Audubon Online – Avian Alchemy by Becca Cudmore 2014 Texas Photographic Society, TPS:23, The International Competition 2014 27th Annual Members Only Show, Texas Photographic Society 2014 Photographer’s FORUM, Best of Photography 2014 2013 Photographer’s FORUM, Best of Photography 2013 2012 Texas Photographic Society, TPS:21, The International Competition 2011 Photographer’s FORUM, Best of Photography 2011 2011 Stand Television, LLC inclusion in “My Future Baby” 2009 100 Artists of the West Coast II, Schiffer Books, 2009 Expressions 2009, NANPA Showcase Journal, Juror’s Choice Award 2009 Twelve Miies of Bad Road, HBO Series 2007 Nash Editions: Photography and the Art of Digital Printing 2007 SELECTED COLLECTION OF: Elizabeth and Steven Zaillian, Santa Monica Geoffrey Crossick, University of London, England Rhonda Shear, St. Petersburg, Florida John Frankenheimer, Brentwood, California Madi & Harley Williams, Arnold & Porter LLP, Los Angeles, California Barbara Lazaroff, ASID, Co-Owner Spagos, Chinois on Main Dan Florek, Los Angeles, California Brenda & Alan Abramson, Telluride, Colorado Sandra & David Berman, Big Fork, Montana

PRESENT AND PAST AFFILIATIONS: PDNB Gallery, Dallas, Texas CPW, Center for Photography Woodstock LACP – Los Angeles Center For Photography New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA Texas Photographic Society, San Antonio, Texas Lucie Foundation, Los Angeles, CA G2 Gallery, Abbott Kinney, Venice, CA TAG Gallery – Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, California Wildlife Art Company, Bristol, England NANPA - North American Nature Photography Association NAPP – National Association of Photoshop Professionals Inner City Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, California

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