BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
1984 MFA, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Research Fellowship
1977 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006 Group Exhibition, 1212 Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2005 Solo Exhibition, 1212 Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2003 Inaugural Exhibition, 1212 Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2001 Solo Exhibition, Durka Rojas Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 JJ Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Solo Exhibition, Ninth House, San Francisco, CA
1996 Solo Exhibition, Kenneth Charles, San Francisco, CA
1996 Toucan Gallery, group show, Billings MT
1994 Solo Exhibition, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Solo Exhibition, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Joseph Chowning Gallery, "Baja", San Francisco, CA
1989 Solo/ "Introductions" Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984 Stanford University, MFA Exhibition, Stanford, CA
1982 TransAmerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco & Los Angeles, CA
1980 Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Yellowstone Museum of Art, Billings, MT
Morgan Stanley and Co., San Francisco, CA
Clorox Company, Marion, OH
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Thornton, San Francisco, CA
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Davis, Washington DC
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bunch, Napa, CA
TEACHING
1989-1993 Instructor, New College of California, San Francisco, CA
1983-1984 Instructor & Lecturer, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1983-1984 Instructor, Palo Alto Art School, Palo Alto, CA
About the Artist
Cheryl Yaney eloquently interprets the natural landscape applying her lifelong fascination with the geometry and spatial illusions of the physical world. Along with this intellectual inquisitiveness, Yaney's paintings exhibit an equally important element of passion and movement, greatly inspired by her love of dance and movement in her daily life.
She uses both subtle and complex color to transmit vitality in her works on paper and on canvas. Playful shapes and characters inhabit illusions of water, air, sea and fields of color, which often suggest several perspectives and vistas at once. Because the artist has a personal affinity with airborne creatures, (suggesting a bird's-eye-view) there are evocations of flora and fauna, planetary shapes and, naturally, birds.
Cheryl Yaney studied with some of the great Bay Area artists of the generation before her (Nathan Oliveira, Frank Lobdell), incorporating their lessons while nonetheless avidly manifesting her own particular expressions. Her paintings are alive with movement and energized paint surfaces that are balanced within formal compositions -it is precisely this duality of symmetry and her genuine and spiritual use of color that awakens the soul and the imagination.
--Carlos Rojas, San Francicso, 2004
Contact
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