Cheryl Rock

Cheryl Rock completed her BFA at University of Windsor.  Passionate about the power of diverse stories, she has a focus on reconnecting to oral tradition through her imagery.  Her current work is with hand-cut, archival paper and mixed media.  Central to her artistic practice, Cheryl is inspired by the desire to create dialogue with a diverse audience through commonalities in human experience. 

Cheryl’s current series is Re-visioning Royalty.  She uses her two-dimensional pieces to communicate notions of beauty, resilience, royalty, and tenacity.  Re-presenting the stories of the Black diaspora, Cheryl’s two-dimensional cut paper pieces explore; Afrofuturism, Black identity, cultural hybridity and document the tenacity of the human spirit.

 “I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition – about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive!”
-Maya Angelou