Hacker Art & Publishing

     Cherie Hacker was born and raised in Chicago.  Early on, she experimented with all types of media.  At twelve she spent her earned allowance on art supplies and painted with oils on an easel in her bedroom.  Her personal high school fieldtrips embodied taking the “L” to the Art Institute where she was influenced by Picasso and Dali.  Cherie holds a MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, a BA in Studio Art from the University of California, Davis, as well as Associate Degrees in Art, General Education, and Railroad Technology.  An educational highlight for Cherie was a Smithsonian Graduate Level Internship in 2000-01.  She attended over thirty comprehensive workshops, seminars, and museum tours.  Assigned to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, she assisted in Exhibition Design and on the NEA Artists Archive Project.   Cherie has installed and currated many gallery and student shows.  Most recent, she was Gallery Director at Asylum Gallery in Sacramento, and taught Art Foundations at Folsom Lake College.

     Cherie Hacker is a conceptual artist and abstract painter whose work is process oriented.  She is an avid nature lover, experienced at hiking volcanoes and rafting big rivers.  She knows the value of allowing your art ideas to develop over time.  “I am in the seventh year of an environmental project, The Lamp & Endtable Project, in which respect for the earth is my ultimate message.  This has taken me on wilderness journeys from Alaska, thru the Northwest mountains, beaches, and deserts.” says Cherie.  “I began from dreams and sketches.  Now the lamp and end table appears in paintings, sculpture, photography, and printmaking.”  She is quintessentially a mixed-media artist with a studio in Sacramento.

     Cherie has exhibited her art in group and solo shows in Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Alaska, California, India and China, and with the project: The Faces of Courage – 911 Heroes in which larger than life portraits traveled throughout the east coast and in two World Trade Centers.  With several bodies of work, Cherie moves in and out of each as the inspiration calls from portraits to nature to coyotes, to abstracts, to ceramic sculpture and installations.  “I tend to use several media within one piece.  One painting may contain charcoal, ink, gesso, collage, oil, latex, alkyd, and enamel.  I use recycled wood, paint, wallpaper books, and found objects from flea markets.   I aspire to work on the Lamp & Endtable project indefinitely, and to document the changes in our environment thru it.”