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Lauren Cherry
is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY, establishing her
art studio in New York City in 1984. Once described by the New York
Times as a 'modern day Michelangelo', she has delighted some of New
York's most exclusive names, ranging from museums and Fortune 500
companies to royalty, with her illusionistic paintings and fine art.
Her works have
been published in numerous interior design journals including
Architectural Digest and Interiors, and exhibited in museums such as
The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and The Portland Museum of
Art. She has been featured on Lifetime television, and has had the
privilege of a faculty position at the School of Visual Arts, where she
first began teaching her knowledge of painting and the creative process.
Lauren Cherry was born in New York
City- raised in a family of professional artists. Her mother a gifted
sculptor, and her father- a musician with The Metropolitan Opera House
as
well
as a painter. Her brother, a contemporary composer. Growing up in
a free and imaginative environment where both the visual and musical
arts were as available to her as air, Lauren began drawing at a very
early age along with musical studies at the age of 5. She was appointed
life member of The Art Student's League by the age of 12, where she
began formally studying from the model. Later she attended the High
School of Music & Art and
received her BFA from The School of Visual Arts.
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