Cheryl Maeder V. 2

Cheryl Maeder is a conceptual landscape photographer and video artist who has exhibited across the United States, especially in Florida, Europe, and the Middle East. Recent exhibitions and film festivals include Millennium Film Workshop in New York, Arts Warehouse in Delray Beach, Florida, Art and Culture Center in Hollywood, Florida, Mark Hachem Gallery in both Paris & Palm Beach, Paris Women CineFest, Somerset House in London, Arts Connection Foundation in Miami, and Palazzo Bembo for the Venice Biennale. Cheryl’s works remain in notable permanent collections including The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Delta Air Lines, Montefiore Medical Center, New Rochelle Emergency Department & Radiology Center, Good Samaritan Medical Center, Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, and the Elliott Museum in Stuart, Florida.

Ethereal and apparitional, Cheryl Maeder uses strategic props such as colored smoke, balloons, and bubbles to interact with recreational natural environments such as beaches and parks. She captures the fusion between playful color and nature to express a notion as if enchanting spaces to the very whims of her imagination. By infusing magical elements into nature, Cheryl wishes to communicate oneness between humanity and the natural world, all while making a statement about the relevance of ecology for sustainment among future generations of creatures and humans. The photography and short films express pleasurable moments of joyous, flamboyant colors floating amongst the mist of a forest or the dew of the morning shoreline.

The signature sets of works and series in Cheryl Maeder’s portfolio consist of the Super Natural photographs and Super Natural Orbs film. In the Super Natural photography, the viewer embarks on closed compositions of beaches and forests engulfed in colorful sfumato. As if a burst of magic were thrust into the air or Cheryl behaved like a wizard and enchanted the environment with sacred magic and runes to call upon spirits of another realm or ancient times. These imaginative photographs express a rumination of child-like wonder and appreciation for nature beyond literal and documentary depictions. In essence, Cheryl Maeder reinterprets natural environments as vehicles of not only amazement and wonderment, but also as conduits of expression and poetic philosophy.

Super Natural Orbs (pictured above) is one of Cheryl’s finest films containing a balloon floating amidst landscapes of forest and beaches. Ranging from pink, lime green, and crimson balloons, the subjects appear more like fantastical orbs monitoring the environment. As these free-flowing objects float amidst the air, Cheryl carefully captures the sustainment of the interaction between human-construct and naturality in perfect harmony with one another.

Cheryl Maeder is a dynamic photographer who very much enhances contemporary art through integrative methods of combining clever props with photography and film. She advances documentative approaches to have purpose beyond straightforward capturing and into realms of enchantment, apparitional qualities, and ethereal connotations through the use of props such as colored smoke and balloons. These fantastical landscapes exude a fantastical wonder and the power of illusion beyond mere recognizable and familiar means of expression such as painting or digital effects. What Cheryl Maedar achieves with props, photography, film, and nature infuses a synthesis of how visual art can use combinative conceptual techniques to express complex relationships, such as the bonding between humans and the natural world.

https://www.maederphotography.com