Cheri O'Brien is a Pacific Northwest native secretly residing and painting in her humble studio down the banks of the lazy Snohomish River. A self-taught professional artist of seventeen years, her art is inspired by travels with her small family of cohorts, the antics of her dog Jimmy and her many muses both real and imagined. She lovingly brings them to life with a vivid palette and a passion for story telling.Cheri's work is collected throughout Washington State. As the world sits up and takes notice of this eclectic artist with a unique voice, her paintings are making their way across the whole Continent and eking into Europe and Japan. To this Cheri answers bemusedly “Inconceivable!”
Gallery Exhibitions:
Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle
Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seattle
Everett Center for the Arts, Everett
Collections:
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle
Washington State Arts Commission 1% for the Arts
Pacific Coast Feather Company, Seattle
Lombardi’s Cucina, Everett
Artist Residency:
Centrum, November 2002, Port Townsend, WA
Public Arts Commissions:
King County Metro Transit
“Pigs on Parade”, Pike Place Market Foundations, Seattle
Awards:
Daniel Smith Art Catalog Cover 2005
Snohomish County Artist of the Year 1998
Cover of the NW Artists and Poets Calendar 1989
“Each painting is a contained one-act play. O’Brien’s figures convey real emotion. Pernicious humor, loneliness and boredom are revealed in bold vividly colored paintings.”
Joe Heim, Seattle Times
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