The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)
Collage artist presents ‘Reconstructed Landscapes’
MIDDLETOWN » National award-winning collage artist Cheryl Dawdy shows her most recent collages at Middletown Framing Gallery in downtown Middletown until Aug. 28.
Twenty of her collages will be on display, part of Middletown Framing’s monthly gallery program. In her “Reconstructed Landscapes” Dawdy works with old postcards, fragments of paper and other items, to create images that have been described as “wonderful little worlds you want to climb into.”
Well-known in her home area, the Midwest, Dawdy won first place in the National 2011 Postcard Art Competition & Exhibition sponsored bi-annually by the Lake County Discovery Museum, Wauconda, Ill.
During the last two years, herwork has hung in six galleries in New York and Connecticut, Brooklyn’s WAH Gallery; the Upstream Gallery in Hastings-on Hudson (N.Y.); the Main St. Arts Gallery in Clifton Springs (N.Y.); the Shirt Factory Gallery in Glen Falls (N.Y.); and Celebrations Gallery in Promfret Center (Conn.), all as part of juried competitions.
Her work has also been displayed in Tampa and five Michigan galleries.
Dawdy’s collages are combinations of color, old pictures, postcards, painted paper scraps, and unusual paper pieces that create unique little landscapes of subtle hues, visual harmonies, and historic and visual incongruities that allow you the freedom to figure out what the story is for yourself.
“This collection of collages showcases the various methods and techniques I’ve been experimenting with in my work over the past several years,” Dawdy said, describing the collection at Middletown Framing. “It reflects the transition from an earlier use of primarily pre-printed papers, to a more varied assortment of materials and approaches including image transfers, layering with tissue paper, ‘faux’ encaustics, and inventing my own ‘imagery’ through painting on Braille paper, wallpaper scraps and deli paper.”
Images of all Dawdy’s work can be found on her website at www. cheryldawdy.com
Middletown Framing, at 502MainSt. canbe reached by calling 860-347-0064 or visiting Facebook.com/middletownframing.
“It reflects the transition froman earlier use of primarily pre-printed papers, to amore varied assortment of materials and approaches including image transfers, layering with tissue paper, ‘faux’ encaustics, and inventing my own ‘imagery’ through painting on Braille paper, wallpaper scraps and deli paper.” — Cheryl Dawdy, describing the collection at Middletown Framing