Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Cheryl Sorg

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Encinitas, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2001

Cheryl Sorg’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums across the U.S., including WorkSpace in New York City, The Copley Society of Art, The Photographic Resource Center and Forest Hills Trust in Boston, Eric Phleger Gallery, the San Diego Art Institute and the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, the Long Beach Museum of Art, and the Torrance Art Museum. Sorg’s work is also included in the esteemed Allan Chasanoff Bookworks Collection in New York, and is referenced in the book A Companion to Herman Melville edited by Wyn Kelley, in the chapter entitled “Creating Icons: Melville in Visual Media and Popular Culture” written by Elizabeth Schultz. It is also referenced in the book entitled Four-Word Self-Help by Patti Digh. She has received many awards and honors, including a fellowship at MacDowell, juror’s awards in numerous group exhibitions, a travel grant from the Massachusetts College of Art to create work in Rio de Janeiro, and publication in the fall 2008 issue of Studio Visit Magazine, an “exhibition in print” from the Open Studios Press (publishers of New American Paintings).

Studios

New Hampshire

Cheryl Sorg worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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