2011 Poster by Cheri O'Brien
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2011 Bloom Poster Artwork
Cheri O'Brien's Indienne Flower with Bird (reverse oil painting on glass) was
unanimously selected as the 2011 Bloom Poster Artwork.
Cheri is a Pacific Northwest native residing in Everett. She is a self-taught professional
artist of over twenty years. During her prolific years of work she has been
included in several group shows in the Seattle area including Bumbershoot, Henry Art Museum,
NW AIDS Foundation, PRATT Fine Arts School among others. She shows regularly at the Jeffrey Moose Gallery
in downtown Seattle.
Among her noted accomplishments include the cover for the 1990 Bainbridge Island Artists and Poets calendar,
fourteen paintings in the WSAC 1% for the Arts purchase program, Metro Transit bus mural program, four posters for the Seattle
Mens Chorus, Pike Place Market Foundation Pigs-on-Parade and a residency at Centrum in the Fall of 2002. Her most recent
accomplishments include a $110,000 public art commission in concrete and a $27,000 WSAC commission in
fused painted glass for the North Hill elementary in Des Moines.
Her love of flora and fauna and also old fashioned wallpaper designs inspired this reverse oil on glass
paintings. O'Brien's work tends to be colorful with the narrative quality of storytelling.
The vivid color palette and the artist's expressionist style create a feeling and mood.
She paints continually while surrounded by family and the mundane activities of daily life. Painting brings her
joy as well as a sense of self.
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