Cheryl Meeker is a San Francisco based artist working in a variety of media, whose work touches on the fundamentals of sustenance, both physical and spiritual, in our economically and environmentally destabilized world. Recent work explores spiritual and scientific approaches to the environment. Projects in-process engage with historical events, archives, and the development of ceramic sculpture, bringing a relatively cerebral feminist project into more urgent materiality.
The pandemic opened space for an intimate, ongoing coral reef fish watercolor project, and a collaborative landscape restoration project in a local public park. Actions with the housing and climate justice movements and work in the public library system have informed her work and led to hybrid action/art works holding public space. In the art team Dan and Cheryl, with Dan Spencer, interviews and situational interventions fused the tensions of lived interaction with the artificiality of the studio, site, or relational set-up. Working with City Studio/ARTivate allowed for engagement with high school students fusing art and activism in public spaces like on a sidewalk on Market Street and at the David Ireland house at 500 Capp Street.
A founding member of stretcher.org, she worked collaboratively to create the first online art publication in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has been exhibited at Anglim/Trimble, Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, ATA, Mission 17, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, the Oakland Art Museum, and online at SFMOMA Open Space, and the Richmond Art Center. Her writing has been published in NYFA Current, Stretcher, and Art Papers.
