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Cecil Herring has shown her paintings, sculpture, digital art, wearable art, photography in galleries and museums all over the world. She has created works in many media, blazing trails in new technology including electroforming metals, creating works in polyvinyl chloride sculpture created using welding and sprayable vinyl. Her first New York show was Spacescapes© held at Center Gallery, 49 W. 57th Street, NYC. This show received notice in New York Times, London Telegraph and ABC News on the 6 p.m. broadcast. The Spacescapes© show traveled to Air Force Space Museum, and North Miami Gallery and Stetson University in Deland, FL. Later, she began to explore electroforming and was invited to show her collection of wearable light weight jewelry and body sculpture at Mosconi Hall in San Francisco at SurFin International Convention after her cover story in Surface Finishing magazine. Then she turned to digital technology, an emerging tehcnology in the late 80s. She studied this new medium, post grad after receiving her BA in Humanities the Arts, sculpture, painting, writing, theatre and music at U. of Central Florida. She then exhibited this medium all over the world, including China, Germany, U.S. and showed her large digital prints at a symposium in Mosconi Hall in San Francisco. Her digital works are in many collections including Kodak, in Germany and the U.S. and on-line at NASA.gov with her work on Cassini Saturn Mission. She has collectors in Norway, Germany, Spain and across Europe and the U.S. Currently, she exhibits her art works in galleries and on the internet and in her on-line gallery http://wwwspacescapes.com
A Miami native, she began painting at age 19, later studying at U. of Florida, U.C.F., Arrowmont School of Crafts, receiving a BA in Humanities-the Arts, painting, sculpture, music, theater and writing, at U.C.F. in 1986. In 1988 she began computer art training, graduating from McFatter Technical School, Davie, FL.
She first showed an original digital painting in 1995 in 'WWOL, World's Women On-Line,' Beijing, China for 4th Women's Congress sponsored by the United Nations and chaired by Hillary Clinton. She won a Kodak National Innovator Award, for large format digital prints, shown at Seybold, 2000, San Francisco. In 2004 Her digital paintings were shown at Art Fair 2004, Cologne, Germany, on 'Electronic Wall' a 30 ft. Electronic Wall. Koi, an original digital work was published in Photography, 7th Ed. Prentice Hall, 2001. She sells her original paintings and prints in many countries. Her works are in many public and private collections in the US, Norway, Germany, and Spain. Her most notable collected work is a sterling silver eagle pendant commissioned for First lady Mrs. Betty Ford. She met Mrs. Ford, received accolades and much press for this work. It is now in the, Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, Kodak, Rochester, N.Y., Other noted collected works are: paintings, Orlando Modern Art Collection, Phase II Publishing, Los Angeles, steel sculpture commissioned for U. of F. Medical Library Collection, Purchase Award Bronze Sculpture for City of Titusville, bronze Altar pieces, St. Charles Cathedral, Orlando, 7 foot welded bronze sculpture 'Man with 3 Arms,' Crealde Sculpture Garden, Winter Park and numerous private collectors. She made a collection of Florida landscapes 3 years ago and exhibited them widely. Most recently, Cecil exhibited an 80 x 30 inch panorama in the Florida Biennial IV at Florida Museum in 2008. Currently she is creating a collection of boxing paintings in homage to her namesake father Cecil Darby, a professional boxer, wrestler, and race car driver.
