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Cherry Dawn Stowe - Fine Artist
The way in which especially Western societies are relentlessly immersed in an ocean of media doctored images of ‘reality’ fascinates Cherry Dawn Stowe (1983) tremendously. It is indeed a source of frustration to her in life and of inspiration in her work as an artist. She appreciates that the digital airbrush has carefully beautified many blemishes, but that it also carries the burden of much social harm on its conscience. As a young woman Cherry is a member of the largest target group the media aims to manipulate most and just like many other women of her age she fights an almost daily battle with her own self-image. This battle is what she intends to resolve in her art work. Nothing in the modern world is black or white, there is more than fat or thin, beautiful or ugly, smart or stupid, yet that is exactly the manner in which the world is represented again and again. Cherry’s reaction to this is an artistic style recognizable by large blocks of color, clear boundaries, a minimum of texture, and especially a lack of depth. This way she reduces her images further than the media can, though she expects the airbrush will overtake her any minute. - From the 'Original Art Vademecum – Lustrum Edition' (Promotie Advies, NL 2008)
Cherry Dawn Stowe graduated with a Master’s in English earned with distinction from the Scottish University of Dundee, where she also studied film and psychology. She was born in the Netherlands in 1983, and currently resides in the U.S., where she works as an editor and an artist. She likes to think of herself as an ignorant woman of the world.
