Hacker Art & Publishing

A    Cherie Hacker is a conceptual artist and abstract painter whose work is process oriented. She knows the value of allowing art ideas to develop over time.  Quintessentially a mixed-media artist with a studio in Downtown Sacramento, Cherie is also a member of Axis Gallery. Born and raised in Chicago, Cherie holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art, a Bachelors in Studio Art from UC Davis and served a Smithsonian Graduate Internship in 2000-01 for the American Art Museum. She has installed and curated many gallery and student shows, and is a “Teaching Artist” with the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.  An avid nature lover, Cherie is in the tenth year of the Lamp & Endtable Environmental Art Project  that has taken her from Alaska throughout the Northwest. 

     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 andinstallations.  “I tend to use several media within one piece.  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.”

 Installation at Axis Gallery 2011