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All artists are vain, they long to be recognised and to leave
something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the
same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.
Francis Bacon

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Painting demonstration at Grand Bohemian Hotel Gallery

  • Cecil Herring has been a practicing artist for 49 years and has shown sculpture, paintings, digital art, wearable art and jewelry in galleries and museums internationally and in New York, Miami, and Orlando.
    A Miami native, Cecil began art studies at 21 in Miami, going on to study at U. of Florida, and receiving a BA at U.C.F. in 1986. She studied painting at the U. of Florida with Hiram Williams and P.R. McIntosh and with Emil Holzhauer, a student of great American painter Robert Henri. Cecil also studied welding at Brevard C. C, casting at U.C.F, electroforming and jewelry at Arrowmont School of Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN.
    Her paintings, sculptures, wearable art works, experimental mixed media works and one of a kind jewelry pieces are in many collections. A former photojournalist and feature writer for Florida Today, Melbourne Times, Reuters and Fairchild Publications, She has been invited to exhibit works online on websites in many countries including the NASA website. Her website with her registered domain and trademarked name is at http://www.spacescapes.com.
    She studied digital art at Brevard Community Collage, Florida Atlantic U. and graduated from McFatter Technical School in 1995 with certification in Photoshop, Quark, and Illustrator.
    Her works were shown in Beijing, China, Art Fair 2004, Cologne, Germany, where she showed 5 digital works beamed on a 30 ft. Electronic Wall in an International show with 12 artists from Japan, U.S. Australia and Germany. She won a Kodak Innovator Award for large format digital pinting and had digital work published in Photography, 7th Ed. Prentice Hall.
  • Collections:
    First Lady Betty Ford Collection, Grand Rapids, Mich.
    Kodak, Rochester, N. Y.
    Orlando Modern Art Collection
    Phase II Publishing, Los Angeles
    Americatel Corp., Miami, City of Titusville
    St. Charles Cathedral altar pieces
    Titusville City Hall
    U. of Florida School of Dentistry Commemorative Sculpture honoring founder of Dental School. Steel sculpture located at U. of Fla Medical Library
    Cocoa Beach High School sculpture "Minuteman."
    Many private collectors.

  • Recent Shows:
    Grand Bohemian Hotel, Small works show, Dec. 2006.
    Grand Bohemian Hotel Gallery, Orlando, June, Two person show: "Expressionist Landscapes" with Jean Claude Roy, France, June, 2006.
    DeBary Mansion, DeBary, FL September, 2005 Solo
    Avalon Gallery, Orlando, June, 2005, winners show.
    Thomas Kelly Building, National Museum for Women in the Arts juried show, Sept. 2005.
    "Red is the Color Of...", Avalon Gallery, Orlando, August, 2004, won best in show.
    National Museum for Women in the Arts Show, Winter Park, FL, May, 2005
    Marriott Hotel Downtown Gallery, Orlando, 2004
    EPCOT, Walt Disney World, Sculpture Garden, International Flower Show, 2004
    Small Works Show, Grand Bohemian Hotel Gallery, December, 2005, Orlando
    Mayor's Gallery, Orlando City Hall, 2004
    Sanford City Hall, Sanford, FL, 2004-2005
  • Solo Shows
    September 2005, DeBary Mansion, Debary, FL
    September 2003 - 15 Spacescapes paintings, Ichiban Restaurant, Orlando, FL
    March -April, 2003 -"How my garden grows," floral oils and watercolors, Wachovia Financial Center, Orlando, FL 2003
    October, 2002 - SpacescapesÆ 2002, paintings, sculpture, Minos Gallery, Cocoa Village, FL
    September, 2001 - Paintings, Fifth Avenue Gallery, Melbourne, FL
    December, 2000 - Paintings, University of Central Florida Library Gallery, Orlando
    September 1997 - Artist of the Month, Digital Art, Orlando Museum Shop, Orlando
    1996- Digital Art, Osceola County Library, Kissimmee, F
    1984 -Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL
    1981 - Paintings, Sculpture, Wearable Art, Seminole Community College, Sanford,
    1980 - Wearable Art Fashion Show, Miami Fashion Council, Miami, FL
    1979 - Wearable Art Show, Joan Ling Gallery, Gainesville, FL
    1980 - "The Artful Christmas, " Joan Ling Gallery, Gainesville
    1979, 1980 - Wearable Art, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL (2)
    1975, 1977 Sculpture, Maitland Art Center, Maitland, FL
    1975 - Sculpture, Brevard Community College, Cocoa, FL
    1976 - Wearable Art and Jewelry, Kelsey Jewelist, Indian Harbour Beach, FL
    1974 - Paintings, Florida Institute of Techology., Melbourne, FL
    1974 -SpacescapesÆ Sculpture, Port Malabar Country Club, Port Malabar, FL
    1973 - SpacescapesÆ Sculpture, Duncan Gallery, Stetson U., DeLand, FL
    1974 - SpacescapesÆ, Gallery Three, Miami, FL
    1972 - SpacescapesÆ,U. S Air Force Space Museum, Cape Canaveral, FL
    1973 - Paintings, Melbourne Public Library, Melbourne, FL
    1971 - Spacescapes, Center Art Gallery, New York, NY
    1973 - Paintings, Gleason Auditorium, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
    1969 - Paintings, Eau Gallie Public Library
    1964 - J. Hillis Miller Medical Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL,
    1966 - Eau Gallie Public Library, Melbourne, FL
    1964 - University City Bank, Gainesville, FL
  • Selected Recent Shows (*Awards)
    Winners Show, Avalon Gallery, Orlando, June 2005
    "E-Energy", Cologne Art Fair, multimedia installation by 12 international artists
    from USA, Europe, Japan and Australia,
    beaming digital works on a brick wall at the Palladium, Cologne, Germany, Oct., 04
    *Red is the color of...Best in Show, Aug. 2004
    Avalon Gallery, 2 person show, Cecil Herring, Claire Lavin, Hardware vs Software, Jan. 04
    Epcot International Flower Show, sculpture garden sculpture invitational, May, 04
    Group Show, Marriott Hotel Downtown Gallery, Feb. - April, 04
    Group Show, Mayor's Gallery, Orlando City Hall, April - June, 04
    Group Show, Marriott Hotel Downtown Gallery, May 5 - July 30, 04
    EPCOT Sculpture Garden, International Flower and Garden Show, April-June, 04
    "Take a Byte," 2 person digital show, OVAL on Orange Gallery, May 03
    "High Resolution" Digital Art in the 21st Century, BK Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College, Painesville, OH, Jan, 02.
    For the Love of Art, Avalon Gallery, Orlando, Feb. 02
    *Kodak Innovator Awards, Rochester, N.Y., 2000, digital, purchase award
    Spacescapes© Solo show , Fifth Avenue Gallery, Melbourne,Sept.,01
    10 Women, Orlando, paintings, digital art
    NASA: JPL/NASA.gov/cassini website,99
    First Annual National All-Media Exhibition, Ridge Art Assoc., Winter Haven, FL, '97
    Art & Technology Show Orlando Museum, 96, 97, 98, digital art work used for show poster '98.
    "Digital Images," Palm Beach Community College,'95, digital art
    World' Women On-line, http://wwol.is.asu.edu/stage.htm was shown in Beijing, China at the United Nation's 4th World Conference on Women in 1995 Juried by Arizona State U. Professor Murial Magenta.
    Annual Women's Juried Show, St Thomas University, Miami, FL'94, digital art
    Sarasota Art Center, Women's Caucus for Art, '95, digital art
    *Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival, Winter Park, FL (9), paintings, sculpture
    *Festival of the Masters, (7),Walt Disney World Village, FL, sculpture, wearable art
    *Halifax Annual Art Festival, Ormond Beach, FL, sculpture
    *Mount Dora Sidewalk Art Festival, sculpture, wearable art
    *Indialantic Art Festival, sculpture
    *Melbourne Art Festival
    *Miami Beach Festival of the Arts, wearable art
    "A Salute to Belgium", Southeastern Crafts Invitational, Birmingham,AL, jewelry
    Florida Sculptors' Society, Bacardi Gallery, Miami, sculpture
    Loch Haven Art Center (OMA) Members Annual Juried Show, Orlando, FL, sculpture
    Loch Haven Art Center (OMA), "Museum's Choice", sculpture
    "Festival of States," St. Petersburg, FL, sculpture
    *Coral Springs Artist Guild, Broward Community College, Davie, FL '94, Best of Show, oil portrait
    ****Broward Art Guild, Fort Lauderdale, FL
    Motorola 6th Annual National Show, Chicago, IL, painting
    Ringling Museum Crafts Show, Sarasota, FL, wearable art
    Las Olas Sidewalk Art Festival, Fort Lauderdale, FL, sculpture
    Gasperilla Art Festival, Tampa, FL, sculpture, wearable art
    *"Mainsails," St.Petersburg, sculpture
    "Images," New Smyrna Beach, FL, wearable art
    **Cocoa Village Art Festival, Cocoa Beach, FL, sculpture, wearable art
    Brevard Art Center and Museum 1991 Members' Show, Melbourne, FL, painting
    *Space Coast Art Festival, Cocoa Beach, FL, sculpture, paintings, wearable art
    Rollins College, Cornell Fine Arts Center, Winter Park, FL, sculpture
    "Oriental Rugs as Inspiration," Maitland Art Center, watercolor
    "24 Collection," Wearable Art Collection, Miami, wearable art
    "Art to Wear," Fashion Group of Miami, Miami, wearable art
    "Electroformed," American Electroplaters'' Society, Mosconi Hall, San Francisco.
  • Complete 50 year resume available upon request
    Other activities:
    Art Show Judge - Heathrow Art Show, 2005, Ft. Pierce Sidewalk Art Show, Vero Beach Art Show, Amelia Island Art Show, Deland Art Show, Sanford-Seminole Art Association Show, 2005.
    Lectures, Daytona Arts and Sciences Museum Guild, Oct. 2005,
    Committee to Select Art for the Fifth District Court of Appeals, 1983,
    Fellow, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL 1983. Reynold Price, poet, Edward Albee, playwright, Mia Westerlund Roosen, sculptor.
    Artist of the Month, Orlando Museum Shop, 1997
    Website: http://www.spacescapes.com

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