The Symbiosis installation was started during the Covid pandemic period of isolation. The work is inspired by science and microscopic organisms such as viruses, cells, spores, pollen, and other biological creatures that have the power to affect our physical well-being. Some of the pieces are an homage to Ruth Asawa, because Cheryl Coon thought about her life during the isolation period that we all experienced during the pandemic.
During World War II, Ruth was interred in one of the Japanese camps, and so Cheryl spent part of the isolation period studying her work and techniques and incorporating those into her zip ties sculpture. Whenever she felt isolated, Cheryl thought about Ruth’s experience and her extraordinary sculptures.
Cheryl Coon received a MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and BAs in Art & French from Humboldt State. She studied art history at the Université de Paris XIII, Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has had exhibitions at the de Saisset Museum, Triton Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Rosa, State University of New York, Morris Graves Museum, Euphrat Museum, and San Francisco State University Art Gallery, and internationally at the The Rooms Gallery in Canada, the Polymer Culture Factory, Katlamaja, Estonia and the Galerii Y, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia and the Physics Room in Christschurch, New Zealand and Oberfett-Interdisziplinärer Schauraum, Hamburg, Germany. Awards include the Carl Djerassi Honorary Fellowship from the Djerassi Artist Residency program, a full sculpture fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, an artist residency at the Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland, and an artist residency at Villa Montalvo.
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