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This gallery features work that has already been acquired by a collector or museum.

This page is useful to the gallerist, educator, collector, curator or writer in the following ways:

The work might be borrowed for future exhibitions with the permission of the owner.

The images can be viewed to inspire a new commissioned sculpture by the artist.

A complete body of work can be viewed from early work to present.

The images may be available for publication by contacting the artist for permission.

Cheryl Tall at 769-479-0399 or chryltal1829@yahoo.com.

Larger images, and high resolution images available by contacting the artist .

Inspiration, Materials and Techniques

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	From Darwin to Divinity1	From Darwin to Divinity2	Mercutio the Messenger	Time Traveler	Pacific Towers


	Broken Wing	Gaia's Daughters	Tallulah	Call Waiting	Dove and Tower


	Violetta du Lac	Draco Lindo	Circle of Light	Ruby Lantern	The Reader

The

Architect

Artemesia

Negotiators

Man in the Moon

Chrysalis

City Dwellers

Doorman

Electra

Endless

Conversation

Europia


	Festina Tarde	Lady Abundance	Handy Man	Heavy House	House Heads


	Kiln Goddess	Lady of Samos	Magister Operis	Power Boat	Nest of the Questors

Inspiration, Materials and Techniques

Influenced by the writers Joseph Campbell (The Power of Myth) and Gaston Bachelard (The Poetics of Space), Tall creates sculpture driven by her own personal mythology.

She works with a soft responsive clay that encourages repetitive shingle like finger marks. This unique texture serves to unite her body of work and gives her characters an otherworldly look that can suggest armor, petals or scales.

Tall is often asked "How long does it take to make a large sculpture?" Because of the softness of the clay, only 5" can be built in a day. All the sculptures start at the bottom, working in an spiral coil-pinch technique until the need for a separate layer is reached. At this time, she will create a lego-like connector on the inside of the piece so it can go apart and come back together. After the building is complete, the sculpture must be dried, coated with powdered copper and terra sigillata, and fired 14 hours in a kiln. Sometimes additional firings are needed, so the whole process can take from 6 weeks to 3 months.

The resultant surfaces resemble a richly textured abstract painting. The colors are subtle, reminiscent of lichen covered stone and ancient tapestries. Tall wants the sculpture to have a feeling of 'history', almost as though they were created years ago by an unknown civilization.

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