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About Cecily Herzig |
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About MeI graduated cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in 1996 with a major in Environmental Studies (with a geography focus) and a minor in Studio Art. I have worked in a variety of capacities for various businesses ranging from the Montshire Museum of Science and the Hopkins Center for the Arts, to Vicinity Corporation and the Upper Valley Land Trust. I have designed exhibits, taught pottery, managed multi-million dollar projects, and created conservation maps.I enjoy working in a range of mediums from oils and watercolors to clay and felt. I am currently working on a series of crayon drawings and oil paintings. For the works on paper the bulk of the pictures are drawn using 1-3 homemade multi-color crayons (crayonamundos). Many of these pieces are a collaboration with my (almost) 4 year old son. From the scribbles he provides I create lively characters. The end result being a richly colored pastel like image.
Ultimately what fascinates me in creating and looking at art are the little moments: the 1 inch square filled with an intricate interplay of color, the periwinkle smudged with white melting into orange, the approach of yellow in the middle of the night, the sudden jag or subtle curve of a line. All those vignettes of sight adding up to present something unexpected...
My art has been auctioned off by the Human Rights Campaign, and hangs in the headquarters of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund in New York City. It also hangs in many personal collections ranging from the Upper Valley to New York City, to Monterey California.
ExhibitsStory Pictures, Shiretown Books, Woodstock, VT, October 2008 - present.
Strafford ARTWORKS "No Common Denominator" Group Show, Lebanon Co-op Gallery, Centerra Marketplace, Lebanon, NH, 2008.
Never Yell at a Gladiator, South Royalton Market, South Royalton, October 2008.
Nothing you can touch is gone, but everything has changed. Lebanon Co-op Gallery, Centerra Marketplace, Lebanon, NH, 2008.
More of the Bizarre, La Brioche, Montpelier, VT, 2008.
Strafford ARTWORKS, Prints, Photographs, and Small Works, August L. Zollikofer Gallery, Hotel Coolidge, White River Junction, VT, 2008.
More of the Bizarre, Agatha Frys, South Strafford, VT, 2008.Crayonamundo Drawings, Shiretown Books, Woodstock, VT, 2007 - 2008.
Birds, Bats & the Bizarre, Fall Exhibit, Strafford ARTWORKS, South Strafford, VT, 2007.
Birds, Bats & the Bizarre, August L. Zollikofer Gallery, Hotel Coolidge, White River Junction, VT, 2007.
Birds, Bats & Bunnies, FloraLatte, Littleton, NH, 2007.
Crayon Creatures on Paper, Equal Grounds Cafe, South Royalton, VT, 2006.
Art Exhibit, Strafford ARTWORKS, South Strafford, VT, 2006.
Crayon Creatures on Paper, FloraLatte, Littleton, NH, 2006.
Current Works, Hotel Coolidge, White River Junction, VT, 2006.
Crayon Creatures on Paper, Agatha Frys, South Strafford, VT, 2006.
Annual Fall Festival of the Arts, Ammonoosuc Region Arts Council, Lisbon NH, 2001-2006.
Oil & Water, FloraLatte, Littleton, NH, 2005.
Holiday Show, Full Moon Café, South Strafford, VT, 2002 - 2001.
Commissioned/Printed Work2007 Strafford ARTWORKS Calendar. Image for November 2007.Mount Holyoke College Class of 1996, Mount Holyoke College, Winter 2001. Designed reunion booklet.
Hopkins Center Design Studio, Dartmouth College, January 1999. Created a woodcut illustration for the promotion of a
Dartmouth College Glee Club performance.Mount Holyoke College Class of 1996, Mount Holyoke College, Fall 1998. Designed new letterhead for the Class of 1996 stationery.
Press/ReviewsSeven Days, Vermont's Independant Voice, Portraits by the Artist as a Very Young Man . . . and His Mom, by Pamela Polston, November 2007.Excerpt: "This should not be mistaken for kiddie art: Herzig’s color sensibility and execution are too sophisticated for that. Still, most of her works with Ever include some googly-eyed critter of indeterminate provenance. These tend to look simultaneously fierce and cute, à la Maurice Sendak. "
Valley News - Exerpt from an article that reviewed 4 concurrent shows in White River Junction, VT, September 2007."...The paintings and crayon drawings that comprise "Birds, Bats and the Bizarre" have been inhabiting the Hotel Coolidge's Zollikofer Gallery for a while now, but a reception for artist Cecily Herzig is scheduled for tomorrow night.Herzig has spent much of the past three-and-a-half years caring for her young son. Her drawings and paintings have a sort of monster-under-the-bed quality - half-Sesame Street, half-Nightmare on Elm Street - that gives a sharp edge to their wacked-out cheerfulness and childishness..." ~ Alex Hanson
Memberships
Strafford ARTWORKS
AVA Gallery
Vermont Crafts Council
Bat, crayon & water soluble wax pastels on paper, 14" x 17"