ARTIST STATEMENT
Addicted to color and pattern, drawn to irreverence and visual dissonance; I paint and shape wood elements, creating low relief assemblages. The result is an expressive, painterly approach characterized by qualities of color and texture. My work, while abstract, is filled with visual reference and meaning. It is often subversive. The assemblages have societal and political context cloaked in visual abstraction. This obfuscation reflects society’s convenient acquiescence to injustices and crises in plain sight. My work is a modern typography, a visual dialogue. In utilizing found objects and salvaged materials my practice is informed both creatively and philosophically. Creatively the use of salvaged materials encourages improvisation and demands immediacy; inspriration in the unexpected. Philisophically, in our throw away society, building objects of artistry and permanence from discarded items is an act of resistance.

2023 Recipient of The Reece Museum Award.

2020-2021 Grant Recipient Regional Artist Project Northwest North Carolina.

2018-2019 Grant Recipient Regional Artist Project Northwest North Carolina.

In the Permanent Collection of The Maria V. Howard Art Center.

For more information please inquire at:
cherylprisco.art@gmail.com

REPRESENTED BY THE HAEN GALLERY
ASHEVILLE
52 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville, NC

2025 EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Sept 2 - Oct 28, 2025: 75 A-ONE. Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT

February - May 2025: Asheville Strong. Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

February - May 2025: Handcrafted. Maria V. Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC

May 2025: Inosculation, Works by Cheryl & Richard Prisco. Arts & Culture Alliance, Knoxville, TN

PAST EXHIBITIONS August - October 2024: Intimate Group. Pullen Arts Center, Raleigh, NC

October - January 2024: FL3TCH3R. Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN. Recipient of the Reece Museum Award

July 2023: Tickled Pink . Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

May/June 2023: Recycle 2023 . BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Nov/Dec/Jan 2023/24: Wood & Paper . Williamsburg Art Center, Brooklyn, NY

May/June/July 2023: Together & Intertwined. Wilkes Art Gallery, Wilkesboro, NC
July 15 - November 6, 2021: Formation. Spartanburg Art Museum, SC

March 7 - October 2, 2021: Solo Show. Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC
Nov 21 - Dec 19, 2020: Fragments. Arc Gallery, San Francisco, California

Oct/Nov 2020: American Contemporary Craft. LHUCA Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX

Oct 2020: The Schwa Show. Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC

Dec/Jan 2020/19: Fine Contemporary Craft. Artspace - Gallery One, Raleigh, NC
2019: SOFA CHICAGO. Woman Made Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL

Sept/Oct 2019: CHROMA. The Kavanagh Gallery, Saint Charles, IL

August 2019: 22nd International Open. Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

2019: Artist in Residence. Edgewood Cottage, Blowing Rock, NC

May/June/July/Aug/Sept 2019: Cultural Traditions & Outside Visions. Annmarie Sculpture & Art Center, Solomons, MD

May/June/July/August 2019: 62nd National. Maria V. Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC Purchase Prize Recipient, Permanent Collection

May 2019: Freedom of Abstraction . Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY