Cheryl
Franz
- ARTIST -
TENSION
The space between
HOPE & DESPAIR
ASHRAF JAMAL
"… Franz holds onto figurative form, yet like Winterbach’s artist, she is far more inspired by its dispersion, its estranged becoming. This is why the dominant register in her art is its energy field.
While the artworks are framed, circumscribed, they nonetheless hurtle onward, outward, inward. The mark-making is febrile and wild, yet more profoundly about a smudged intimacy, in which the conflicting mediums and techniques compel the viewer to enter an oblique story, a tenuous arrested passion.”
A STUDY
“Hope”
is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
EMILY DICKINSON
In its flight, there is wisdom,
In its song, a memory,
Of the land’s heartbeat
And the rhythm of the earth.
"AFRICAN BIRDSONG"
Flora
SERIES: SOUTH AFRICAN FLORA
In the heart of South Africa's wild landscapes the resilient Leonotis leonurus, standing tall with its fiesty blooms, each whorl a tribute to the majestic lion.
This remarkable plant not only thrives in the harshest conditions but also plays a vital role in the ecosystem offering both beauty and healing to the people and creatures that call this land home.
ANTHONY MORTON
… "Cheryl Franz, in her series "Bound by Hope - The Journey," tantalizingly evokes the essence of hope. Her images beckon, coaxing us into their domain. They mediate their ontological foundations, serving as conduits
to their existential underpinnings, guiding us through the realms they propose. For a moment we enter their fiction
and leave our own. "
Respice finem
- consider the end -
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Creative Vision
Exploration of the tensions that lie in
the spaces between hope and despair
"THE UNEXAMINED LIFE IS NOT WORTH LIVING.”
PLATO