The exhibit below (36th Texas Society Members’ Only Show) has traveled to the Arlington Museum of Art (AMA), Arlington, Texas open from May 11th through June 23rd, 2024.
Texas Photographic Society, 36th Members’ Only Show juried by Roy Flukinger. The exhibit is open at the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, Texas through March, 2024
2023 16th Annual International Color Awards - my image seen below is showcased on the walls of the online Winners Gallery at colorawards.com.
2022 International Juried Exhibition
Juror: Paul Kopeikin
Exhibition on view: November 19 – December 29, 2022 - Opening reception and awards:
Saturday, November 19, 4:00 – 6:00pm
Thanks to all the artists who entered the 2022 International Juried Exhibition. Juror Paul Kopeikin had the extremely difficult task of looking at more than 2000 images to arrive at just 45 images for our gallery exhibition and an additional 45 for the special online exhibition. This is a beautiful show with a diverse array of images from our members, our community, and photographers near and far.
Congratulations to the artists chosen for exhibition in our historic Carmel gallery, and those chosen for our online gallery! If you stop by the gallery, you can cast a vote for your favorite image in our People’s Choice Award starting on November 19. There will also be a catalog available for purchase both in the gallery and online. Check back here soon for updates and images! (info from Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA website)
IPA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2022 - HONORABLE MENTION FOR MY SERIES
ENVISIONING HABITAT AN ALTERED REALITY
SADDLE-BILLED STORKS AND ELEPHANTS ©2019 View this print at the Amswell Art Compendium at the Ameswell Hotel in Mountain View, CA.
NORTHERN CARMINE BEE-EATER AND GREVY’S ZEBRAS ©2021 - Runner Up Award in the Altered Reality Category
NANPA - - National American Nature Photographer’s Association Annual Showcase 2022
MOPA - Museum of Photographic Arts - “Winescapes With Artists” Interview with MOPA Executive Director and Chief Curator Deborah Klochko in conversation with guest artist Cheryl Medow on February 25, 2021.
NANPA - - National American Nature Photographer’s Association Annual Showcase 2021
Snowy Egret V ©2014 included in NANPA Showcase Altered Reality category
Tri-colored Heron and a Skimmer ©2017 included in NANPA’s Showcase Altered Reality category
PDNB GALLERY, DALLAS TEXAS PRESENTS CHERYL MEDOW: NEW WORK
ONLINE EXHIBITION
JULY 27 - AUGUST 29, 2020
Art photographer Cheryl Medow focuses her lens on the avian world to heighten awareness of the importance of these sublime creatures. Since early childhood, whether tending chickens or mimicking the sound of birds, Medow has always had an affection toward these beautiful and evolutionary prehistoric winged beings.
Medow’s first step in creating images is to put herself in nature, traveling to environments where diverse species of birds live; sometimes as close as her backyard, but more often traveling to places far from home. While waiting for the precise moment to capture the image, she studies the surroundings, allowing her to better understand birds in their home environment, looking for food, balancing on a tree branch, hiding from predators, building a nest, courting and fighting for territory; these moments are fascinating and enable her an opportunity for her curiosity and imagination to find expression.
The next step occurs in her studio where images captured in the field find expression as new, imaginative scenes through the use of photographic technology. Against a backdrop of stormy clouds from the Galapagos, the desert landscape of Tucson, Arizona or the Maasai Mara in Kenya, the heightened color of birds conjured by placing the animal somewhere it's never been, are the tools she uses to composite her imagery.
The beauty Medow sees in nature is realized in the final photographic prints she creates. Once the magnificence of this planet and its amazing creatures is seen, her desire to preserve and protect our world it finds shared beliefs in the viewer. We can all be stewards of the sublime beauty of our extraordinary planet.
“Through my Envisioning Habitat series, I present the beauty and majesty of birds to others. They are part of the world around us and must not be forgotten.
If for a moment, the viewer can be transported through my photographic compositions to a new space, where time stands still and everyday problems are set aside, I have accomplished my calling.” - Cheryl Medow
Crowned Crane Calling ©2019 was selected as one of forty-five images to be exhibited at The Center for Photographic Art Sunset Center in Carmel, California. The reception took place on November 2, 2019.
Zoom Magazine Just published my work. Ten prints from my Envisioning Habitat series in their Italian magazine. ZOOM, Collecting Photography #256
Ten prints from my Envisioning Habitat series were exhibited through August 25 at the Chicago Academy of Sciences - Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.
AIPAD 2019 - The exhibit at the PDNB Gallery Booth #604 in New York included the 32’x40” White Ibis With Fish and the 40”x32” Pearl-spotted Owlet.
The Wildling Museum, Solvang California reception in 2019 was a great success. The Natured Imagined exhibition included 22 prints from the Envisioning Habitat series.
The reception at the Wildling Museum photo by George Rose
Artist in front of Great Blue Heron With Chicks Revisted and Flamingos At Rio Lagartos. Photo by George Rose
Puzzles available for the little kids (20 piece)
The Odgen Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans’ permanent collection
includes Tri-colored Heron and a Skimmer ©2017. The gift shop offers the Tri-Colored Heron and a Skimmer Puzzle.
BEST OF SHOW: The North American Photography Association, NANPA's Showcase 2018 has selected Grey Crowned Cranes as Best Of Show - Altered Reality. Two Snowys received the Judges' Choice Award and seven other images from the Envisioning Habitat series were available online and in Expressions 2018.
JUDGES' CHOICE AWARD Altered Reality - Two Snowys
BEST OF SHOW - Altered Reality - Grey Crowned Crane
Richard McCabe, Curator of Photography at the Ogden Museum of Art selected six of my photographs for inclusion in New Orleans Photography Alliance (NOPA) 2017 Annual Members Showcase Currents which he juried.
Elizabeth Corden and Jan Potts of Corden Potts Gallery in San Francisco included Tri-colored Heron and a Skimmer in the Center For Photographic Art 2017 CPA Members' Juried Exhibition.
Tri-colored Heron and a Skimmer ©2017
Great Blue Heron at Rest was included in the LOS ANGELES CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY (LACP) Members' Exhibition juried by Paula Tognarelli.
Brooke Jensen's publication LensWork in the August #131 issue, 13 images from the Envisioning Habitat series and the Great Blue Heron at Rest ©2014 was the cover art.
Lafayette Gallery, downtown Boston - Snowy Portrait was included in Paula Tognarelli's Aviary Group Exhibit.
Images from the Envisioning Habitat series were included in the Critters exhibition at Photos Do Not Bend (PDNB)
in Dallas Texas, 2016. Michael Granberry’s article included Great Blue Heron With Chicks Revisited ©2014.
PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont
Great Blue In Flight was included in the exhibition "Flight" juried by Laura Moya. 2016.
Featured artists in Photographer's Quarterly Magazine written by Jonathan Blaustein. Here's the link: http://photographersquarterly.com/Issue-no.-4/Editors-Letter/1/caption
The SLIDESHOW NIGHT at The Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City, California was THURSDAY, MARCH 3rd from 6-8PM.
Sunday November 29, 2015
Slate(dot)com Article by David Rosenberg
2015 PX3 - 1st Prize - non-professional for Envisioning Habitat series, Category Fine Art/Digitally Enhanced; 2nd Prize Book Proposal Nature; 3rd Prize for Book Proposal Nature and Honorable Mention Book Proposal Fine Art
Cameraworks Gallery
in Portland Oregon
presents
Cheryl Medow
November 28 - January 1, 2016
Silvershotz Magazine - November 11, 2015
The Center For Photographic Art in Carmel, California included Cattle Egret and the Grasshopper ©2014
in their 2015 Juried Members' Exhibition
LensCulture Earth Awards 2015 Finalist
August 14, 2015 - Link to Photoshop for the Birds by Alyssa Coppelman published in Inspire Adobe
At first glance, Cheryl Medow’s highly detailed images look like real landscapes, but it soon becomes apparent that something more unusual is going on. To create her ongoing series Envisioning Habitat, Medow first photographs birds and landscapes in the United States, Africa, Europe, and South and Central America. Then she constructs an entirely new reality out of those original photographs, resulting in the art you see here.
Link to Photo Realism: Seeing Birds In A New Wild
July 12, 2015 - Sunday Still Issue 43 was on Proof National Geographic. Medow's work evokes the paintings of Martin J. Heade.
June 30, 2015 An article for National Geographic Proof Picture Stories The Art of Birds Seen Through An Altered Reality written by Becky Harlan and appeared online with great success.
Here's a few of the many comments:
Fabulous! Almost like being in a dream!
Stunning! I would be thrilled to have any of these on my walls.
Sea lo que sea o como sea,Cheryl eres una nueva clase de fotógrafo, que puedo decir que no se haya dicho, todo lo bueno para ti,pero creo que tu has sabido llegar a los sentidos de cada uno que ve tus exposiciones como cada quien quiere para si mismo eso es Arte en una nueva clase de contexto, esperando que expongas mas
I love your work, so creative, so beautiful. One can spend a long time with these images, enjoying them. White Ibis With Fish made me laugh.
..Thank you, you have no idea what your talent has brought into my world. I suffer from TN which causes the most severe facial nerve pain on the right side of my face.I do visualization therapy for the pain, I am in severe pain now. When I discovered your magnificent birds. They are so detailed and so alive. I have focused on every detail until I felt as I was there caressing their soft feathers. You have helped my pain tonight and for sharing your art with the world and bring it into my world I am truly grateful. I have added these photos and your site to my photos I use for my therapy. ..
This is the closest photography can come to photorealistic painting as in the Audubon collections, which appear to some extent to have inspired these pictures. Admirable photoshop techniques and, knowing that each part of the image was still photographed somewhere in the wild, immensely beautiful pictures, reminiscent of a world intact and wild long gone. It is like a look into the past of earth history to warn what mankind will be losing – or already lost – in the future if care to preserve the planet is not taken.
The Great Egrets on a Starry Night reminds me of Japanese art; all it needs is a haiku. Some of the others remind me of mediaeval or renaissance tapestry. The difference between these photos and the heavily manipulated photos which are often criticized is that Medow’s work is clearly an artistic presentation where the artist has taken material from different sources and created something new...
Yes!! At last someone broke through that old glass ceiling to reveal emotion, art, beauty all rolled into one magnificent image. This is what I want to see and for those purists out there, I do not care how it was done! I did try this myself and was not brave enough to swim against the tide of hackneyed opinion, now I will revisit it because this is a wonderful breath of fresh air.
J’aime la forme d’esthétique que vous recherchez et que vous avez atteint.
I looked with tears in my eyes at each photograph, each one a work of art. I just returned home and saw this email. While I was out, I pulled off the road to watch a family of Sandhill Cranes (Mom, Dad and juvenile). I intentionally drove by that area hoping to see them, the parents have lived around there for years. I can’t think of anything to watch that is so calming. Thank you for the beautiful pictures.
As a nature lover and a recent visitor to Ding Darling on Sanibel Island, these images truly are ethereal.
Audubon article was written in 2015 by Becca Cudmore on my collection, Avian Alchemy. Five image were selected from my Envisioning Habitat series for the article. Four images were selected earlier as finalists for the Audubon 2015 Photo Awards
May 1-3, 2015 Exhibitor at PhotoIndependent at the Raleigh Studios in Hollywood - Booth 105 Stage 7.
February 28, 2015 - A few of my prints from the Envisioning Habitat series were included in the Flock: Birds On The Brink exhibition, guest curator Nancy Gifford at Ganna Walska Lotusland in Montecito, California.
Jolene Hanson, Director G2 Gallery and Cheryl Medow