Cheryl Van Hooven

PROVENANCE: Courtesy of the Artist

This image is from a series of photographs taken at the New York Botanical Garden.
I work on images over time and in a variety of ways, and in this series I’ve manipulated
the original photographs to express my response to these strange and beautiful flowers.

 

Cheryl Van Hooven’s photographic artwork includes analog and digital, black & white and color photography, cameraless light drawings, light boxes, Chromas,* assemblage constructions, and artist’s books.
Van Hooven’s work has been exhibited at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Albright-Knox Museum; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; University of California at San Diego; Southern Allegheny Museum of Art, Loretto, PA; Velan Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy; HERE Arts Center, NYC; the Alternative Museum, NYC; Islip Art Museum, Long Island; Bayley Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; Granary Books Gallery, NYC; the Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT; and the Joseph Bellows Gallery, LaJolla, CA, among other venues. Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum; Pfizer, Inc; Morrison & Foerster; Davis Polk & Wardwell; Sonoma State University; Thelan Reid and Priest; Banana Republic; and Alliance Capital and numerous private collections. Van Hooven’s photographs have been
published in Interview Magazine, Details Magazine, New York Magazine, Avenue Magazine, Vogue Italia, Atlanta Magazine and by Macmillan, Inc. Van Hooven received her BA in Journalism from the University of Georgia and did 2 years graduate study in Sociology at Emory University.