This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Cheri Christensen was born in 1961 in Enumclaw, Washington, a small
rural town of horse and cattle ranches and dairies at the foot of Mt.
Rainier. She attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
and graduated from the University of Washington.
Cheri studied
oil painting intensely for three years with Ron Lukas, a protegé of
Sergei Bongart, who taught in the tradition of the Russian
Impressionists. In her studies, Cheri concentrated on seeing and
conveying the effects of color and light on forms.
The first
painting she submitted to a competition was included in a prestigious
exhibition at the Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum in Seattle, and the
first painting to include animals received the Beatrice Jackson
Memorial award for Best Traditional Landscape in the Allied Artists of
America 1995 show. She has since gone on to be represented in and win
awards in numerous regional, national, and international shows.
Cheri is a signature member of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society and the American Academy of Women Artists.
Cheri has been profiled in several magazines, including:
Southwest Art (January, 1999)
The Artist's Magazine (August, 2000)
In Focus / Santa Fe (April, 2001)
Art-Talk Magazine ("Artist to Watch": October, 2001)
Cheri
is best known for her painterly technique and adept portrayals of
animals, subjects close to her heart. It is her knowledge of, respect
for, and attention to the animals that infuse her paintings with an
emotion that resonates within those who view them.
She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Source: Kent Whipple, Fine Art Professional |
Biography from Long Gallery:
| A resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Cheri Christensen paints animals
and is especially known for her depictions of chickens. She lived in
Enumclaw, Washington, and has lived most of her life in that state, but
the move to New Mexico was prompted by her desire to have a location with more light.
She was a graduate of the
University of Washington, where she majored in costume and fashion
design. Her first career was that of clothing buyer, and then in 1992,
she changed her life to focus on being a painter and studied the style
of Russian impressionism with Ron Lukas, a former student of Russian
master Sergei Bongert. Her style is loose, impressionistic, and many of
her subjects, painted in either oil or watercolor. She blocks out large
shapes and then applies color within those shapes.
She learned
to love animals from her grandfather who was a farmer and also from her
rural surroundings growing up near Mount Rainier. She and her husband
also make frequent trips to Mexico for subject matter.
She is a signature member of the American Academy of Women Artists.
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