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Artist Statement

July 2024

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Cheryl Rubin's paintings are about motion, energy, and creating an abstract language created by gestural painting and paint pressing. Her paintings show her search for visual energy and poetry through the physical painting process. Inspired by natural forms and the world around her, her bold and energetic style reveals the process of her discovery. Cheryl's paintings show the result of observation, intuition and excavation as she works to bring a unique visual world to the surface based upon her relationship to nature and the complex world we live in.

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Biography

Cheryl Rubin is an artist living and working in New York City exploring transformation and motion in her paintings. Using multiple surface techniques, her bold and energetic style intentionally oscillates between formalist abstraction and abstract expressionism to show an ongoing investigation of personal and visual discovery.

Born in Philadelphia, she grew up in a house with a floor to ceiling wall mural of the 1928 Stuart Davis painting, "Place Pasdeloup", meticulously copied by her father and brother from a postcard that inspired her lifelong passion to create expressive art.  After studying painting, drawing and sculpture at both Kansas City Art Institute and Philadelphia's University of the Arts, she graduated with a BFA in Sculpture. Moving to New York City in 1979 she continued to create both 2D and 3D art while raising a daughter with her husband, musician and author Dave Rubin, as well as leading licensing and brand  management for Warner Discovery’s DC Entertainment.  For the past 10 years, Cheryl has devoted herself to rebuilding her art portfolio and currently has a studio in the NoMad district of New York City.  Her work is in private collections throughout the US and Europe.

 

Exhibitions

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UPCOMING IN 2026: SOLO SHOW, The Jazz Gallery, NYC, January 2026- March 2-26

Loy Luo Space, Tribeca, NYC., BLUE Group Show, September 17-26, 2024

Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa., Converge Benefit Exhibition, Juried Group Show (June 11- August 3, 2024)

The Marciano Law Firm, Hoboken, NJ, Solo Show (May 1, 2023 - June 15, 2023)

DeFrate & Paavola, Solo Show, Ed Sullivan Office Theatre Building, NYC (February 5, 2020 – May 2022)

Primavera, One Brooklyn Bridge Park Juried Group Show (April 1 – June 18, 2021)

First Street Gallery, 9 for 19 Juried Group Show, Chelsea, NY (January 2021)

ArtspeakCollective.org Group Show, “Art in the Aftermath” online exhibition (December 2020) 

Art Students League of NY, Merit Winners Exhibition (September 2020 – October 2020)

Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC, 1stdibs.com (November 2020 - present)

Goddard Riverside Community Center Group Show, NYC (March 2020)

Manhattan Borough President’s Office Juried Group Show (July- September 2018)

Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery Group Shows, 57th St., NYC (2018/2019/2020)

Spring Studio, NYC, Solo Show – Recent Drawings & Collages (March 2015)

Spring Studio, NYC, Group Shows (2010-2015)

Philadelphia Bicentennial Art Exhibition Juried Group Show (1976)

Global Art Students Exposition Juried Group Show, Glasgow, Scotland (1974)

 

Awards

Phyllis Harriman Gallery 57th St., NYC Honorable Mention (2020)

Art Students League Peter Helk Award (2019)

 

Education

Kansas City Art Institute/Philadelphia College of Art BFA (1977)

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Professional Career

President, Cheryl Rubin Group/Powerhouse Branding (2011-2015)

Senior Vice President, Brand Management Warner Discovery/DC Entertainment (1987-2010)

Marketing Manager, Annual Events, Macy’s New York (1981-1986)

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