"Purple Martin House" St. Joseph By The Sea Pastel, 21"x30"
"Las Primeras
Nieves del Otono" 24"x21", Pastel on sanded board
AWARDS:
Pastel Society of America - New York,NY 1988,1989,1991,1993,1995
American Artist Professional League - New Jersey Chapter - Ocean County College, NJ 1994
Central Jersey Chamber of Commerce Festival of Art - Plainfield, NJ 1992,1994,1995
American Artist Professional league - New York, NY 1988,1990,1993,1996
American Artist Professional League - Ridgewood, NJ 1992, 1993
Fanwood-Scotch Plains Art Association Scotch Plains, NJ 1992 Award winner Spring Show
Mid-West Pastel Society Show - Libertyville, IL 1989 Award winner
National Small Painting Exhibition - Albuquerque, NM 1986 Award winner
PUBLICATIONS
The Best of Pastels by Pran & Monafo - Rockport Publishers, May, 1996
ONE-WOMAN EXHIBITIONS:
The Barron Arts Center - Woodbridge, NJ 1996
Swain Gallery - Plainfield, NJ 1995
Georgian Court College - Lakewood, NJ 1994
Burgdorff Realtors Corporate Gallery- Murry Hill, NJ 1994
Poricy Park - Middletown, NJ 1993
Valley Cottage Library Gallery - Valley Cottage, NY 1992
The Kemper Group - Long Grove, IL 1989
University of Arizona - Tucson. IL 1988
Tohono Chul Park - Tucson, AZ 1987
JURIED GROUP SHOWS:
The Salmagundi Club Non-Member Exhibition - New York, NY 1995, 1996
Catherine Lorllard Wolfe Art Club - New York, 1995
Lever House Gallery - New York, 1995
Chubb Corporation - Atrium Gallery - Warren, NJ 1994
The Newark Museum - Art Educators of New Jersey - Newark, NJ 1994
Arts Center of Northern New Jersey - New Milford, NJ 1993
Jersey City State College - Art Educators of New Jersey - Jersey City, NJ 1993
Barron Arts Center "Winter Thoughts" - Woodbridge, NJ 1993
Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters - Art Educators of NJ - New Brunswick, NJ 1992
Kean College - James Howe Gallery - Art Educators of New Jersey - Union, NJ 1992
Visions Gallery - Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, NY 1991
Arts Council of Rockland - Spring Valley, NY 1990
Arizona Aqueous '88 - Six-State juried exhibition - Tubac, AZ 1988
COLLECTIONS:
Delta Corporate Services- Parsipapany, NJ
Cogen Technologies- East Brunswick, NJ
The Library Co-op. Inc.- Edison, NJ
Dr. Palermo M.D. -Plainfield, NJ
Abbott Laboratories- Abbott Park IL
First National Bank Of Shawnee- Shawnee, OK
Oklahoma City Allergy Clinic- Oklahoma City, OK
National Cowgirl Hall of Fame- Hereford, TX
T.R. Roof & Associates- Tucson, AZ
Butler & Stein Attorneys- Tucson, AZ
Petroleum Abstract and Title Company- Traverse City, MI
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Represented by Swain Galleries Plainfield, NJ and Oceanside Gallery, Belmar NJ
Pastel Society of America, Full Juried Member, NY, NY
The American Artist Professional League, Fellow Member, NY, NY
Allied Artists of America, Associate member, NY, NY
Marquis Who's Who of American Women, 17th Edition
Marquis Who's Who In American Art, 21 st, 22nd Edition
Marquis Who's Who In American Education, 5th Edition
Delta Phi Delta, Honorary Art Fraternity, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
National Art Education Association, Reston, VA
National Catholic Educational Association, Washington, D.C.
Art Educators of New Jersey Artist/Teachers NETWORK
N.J. State Council on the Arts - Visual Arts Slide Registry
Permanent Teaching Certification: New Jersey, Massachusetts
ART EDUCATION:
Massachusetts College of Art - Graduate work 1983-84
Boston University, School of Fine Art - Graduate work 1967
Indiana University of Pennsylvania - B.S. Art Education 1966
Pastel study with:
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Mother Seton Regional Girls Catholic High School, 1989-1996 - Clark, NJ
Ghost Ranch Conference Center, 1988-89, One week workshops - Abiquiu, NM
New Mexico Art League, 1987, Two day workshop - Albuquerque, NM
High School Art Instructor, 1981-84, Art & Graphic Design - Reading, MA
Elementary Art Instructor 1966-69 - Westford, MA 1996-68
Cheryl O'Halloran McLeod exhibits widely in invitational, juried, and one-woman shows including University of Arizona, Artist League of New Mexico. Barron Art Center, Arts Center of Northern New Jersey, National Arts Club in New York. Her work may be seen at Swain Art Galleries. Listed in Who's Who of American women, Cheryl has won numerous prizes and is a full member of The Pastel Society of America, The American Artist Professional League and. holds a Permanent Teaching Certificate in the State of New Jersey.
My art deals primarily with identifying common spaces, gardens, entrances, exits. and I tell you about, myself by letting you see through my own eyes for just a moment. Rather than being a destination art has become a journey along a path of increasing awareness and sensitivity. Teaching becomes a means of awakening perception.
As an artist-teacher, I instruct the future and try to bring not only knowledge and experience, but the ability to challenge and stimulate ideas. Teaching and the making of art offers me the opportunity for personal creative expression. Students arid art ... a life's work made pleasurable when both come together.
Cheryl O'Halloran McLeod is a pastel artist with vision. She knows how to use her talents, skills, and intuition creating magical moments--- opportunities to experience the familiar as new... intimate ... personal. From portraits and still lifes to landscapes and architectural paintings, viewers cannot help becoming involved ... enchanted ... challenged.
Using the medium of Degas, Cassatt, and Chardin, McLeod shares her special gift ... a sensitivity to colors, texture, and light. She is able to capture the richness, indeed the lusciousness, of a plethora of colors. Lively and fresh, her work reflects the excitement where dark meets light and colors play.
Further, she can capture the luminescence of a fleeting moment when the light dances on the landscape ... a moment that might have otherwise escaped. Her portraits portray not only the likeness of the individual but also an intangible essence and radiance from within.
McLeod offers insight, interpretation, and introspection ... a rare glimpse of truth, beauty, and the human condition. Her style is impressionistic, her work contemporary.
A former resident of Boston and the Southwest before returning to her native Midwest, McLeod earned her bachelor's degree in art education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Graduate study then led her to Massachusetts College of Art and Boston University. In recent years, her rich, energetic style has matured under study with Daniel Greene of New York, Albert Handel of New Mexico, and Robert Cormier of Massachusetts.
An associate member of the Pastel Society of America and an artist member of the American Artist Professional League, McLeod is playing an important role in the current resurgence of pastel painting in the United States.
