Cheryl Pope

Cheryl Pope is an American visual artist who works in sculpture, installation, and performance.[1]

Biography

Pope received her BFA in 2003, and in 2010 completed her Masters in Design: Fashion, Body, and Garment, both at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[2] She spent 12 years studying under artist Nick Cave,[1] and in 2015 she received a 3Arts award in recognition of her excellence in the visual arts.[2] She currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois, as both a practicing artist and a boxing instructor.

Work

Through her work, Pope seeks to examine issues of race, gender, and other social issues. Pope's MD thesis, The Games We Play, featured a circle of tube socks that viewers could toss coins into. On each sock was written a word from Chicago teens that represented a binary. This installation also featured a sound component, where the voices of teens could be heard from a cone in the center.[3] The work is a combination of sculpture and performance that calls into question things left unsaid.

Just Yell, an ongoing project by Pope, seeks to address gun violence faced by youth in Chicago.[4] Just Yell is a series of installations that frequently employs poetry and performance by high school students in Chicago as a way to work out issues in a non-violent way.[5]

gollark: Because THOSE are THINGS which EXIST.
gollark: Oh, so there are no firestorms?!
gollark: Not enough verbs.
gollark: That should obviously do something.
gollark: I don't think these make much sense to anyone except whoever came up with them; is there even bee dioxide?

References
  1. "Biography". Cheryl Pope. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  2. "Cheryl Pope". 3arts. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  3. "Pope Surface 85 Thesis Report" (PDF). www.cherylpope.net. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  4. Foumberg, Jason. "Gun Violence Wears a Cheerleading Uniform at Cheryl Pope's New Exhibit". Chicago Mag. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  5. "MCA Live Silence the Silence". Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
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