Cheryl Molnar Long Island, b. 1978

Cheryl Molnar is a painter and collage artist living and working in New York City. She received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Pratt Institute. Her collage-paintings on both paper and wood panels depict the improbable landscapes of memory as re-imagined environments, as we contend with the impacts of gentrification, displacement and climate change. Combining photographic images from both Long Island and southern California, she merges beaches & cliffs, mountains & forests, iconic mid-century modern architecture and an assortment of flora and fauna to highlight the often chaotic relationship between nature and man-made structures. Utilizing three-point-perspective, her works draw in the viewer to immersive spaces that lend themselves to large-scale reproduction.