Artist, designer, and art advisor Cheryl Riley leads a panel of League artists in a conversation about their experience of and reflections on our latest exhibition: Creating Community. Cinque Gallery Artists.
This groundbreaking exhibition, on view now through July 2nd, is an introduction to the history of Cinque Gallery as an institution and features a range of artists whose works have significantly influenced American Art, even as Cinque Gallery’s own legacy has been under-represented.
In our discussion, Riley speaks with League students about how the artworks and artists on display in our exhibition have influenced them, their understanding of Cinque Gallery’s history, and what role institutions, contemporary and historic alike, have played in their emerging careers.
In this final public program for our historic celebration of Cinque Gallery and its lasting impact on our cultural past, we turned to a new generation of artists to find out how the memory of Cinque Gallery will continue to influence our future.
Cheryl R Riley is an artist, furniture designer and art advisor who’s focus is artists of the Black African Diaspora. She creates wall art, installations, site-specific public artworks, custom and licenced lighting and furniture designs. Her art explores similarities between seemingly disparate cultures viewed through the lens of gener, history, rituals, implements and symbols.
Cheryl has exhibitited in over 60 group and solo shows. She has created public artwork in New York, San Fransisco, Sacramento and Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport. Her works are in many private and public collections, amongst them, two Smithsonian’s, The Mint Musueum, Oakland Musueum and San Fransisico’s MoMA. She is a recipient of the Invididual Artist Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center recidendy and James Weldon Johnson and Oxbow Recidency
Cheryl has served on the board s of the first site-specific artist residency in the US; Capp Street Project and the Musuem of Arts & Design, The American Craft Council and as Chair of SECA (Society for Encouragement of Contemporary Art) and San Fransisco’s Musuem of Modern Art.
League Students:
Siara Abid
Clayton Brooks
Sokona Diallo
Zoila Mata