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. Molnar's collage-paintings on both paper and wood panels depict landscapes of memory and re-imagined environments, as she contends 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, and iconic mid-century modern architecture to highlight the often chaotic relationship between nature and man-made structures. Her works draw in the viewer to immersive spaces that lend themselves to large-scale reproduction.