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. She has been commissioned by Los Angeles County to create a custom mosaic for the High Desert Restorative Care Center in Lancaster, California, Percent for Art and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and PS19Q in Corona, Queens, where she installed a permanent, 43-foot ceramic tile mural. She is currently a member artist at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Notable collections featuring her work include Cantor Fitzgerald and Microsoft.