CHERYL GROSS is an illustrator, painter, writer and motion graphic artist living and working in Jersey City for the past 11 years,
originally from Brooklyn, NY. She is also a professor at Pratt Institute and Bloomfield College. Gross received her MFA from Pratt Institute. Her work has appeared in numerous films, TV shows, publications, and graces the walls of many corporate and museum collections including: Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, New York Times, 100 New York Painters, Schiffler Publishing, Riverside Museum, Riverside, Ca., USA, The Museum of The City of New York, Mississippi Museum of Art, The New York Times, Comedynet.com, Associatedcontent.com, Current TV, Laforet Harajuku Museum, Tokyo, Japan, and Artist-In-Residency, Kunstlerhaus, Saarbruken, Germany. Finalist Elizabeth Hulings Foundation, 2014, Artist-In-Residency Program, Dilsberg, Germany, 2015, 3- time recipient Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation Artist Residency (ESKAFF), Jersey City, 2018-2019.
ABOU THE WORK
Gross equates her work with creating and building an environment, transforming her inner thoughts into reality. Beginning with the physical process, she works in layers. She is involved in solving visual and verbal complexities such as design and narrative. Her urban influence has indeed added an ‘edge’ to her work. The work on display depicts the diversity that she loves so much about Jersey City. That is why Gross calls it her home.
Scooter Girl was a small child following her mother who was wheeling a baby carriage. The painting focuses on observing the locals and how they live their daily lives.
originally from Brooklyn, NY. She is also a professor at Pratt Institute and Bloomfield College. Gross received her MFA from Pratt Institute. Her work has appeared in numerous films, TV shows, publications, and graces the walls of many corporate and museum collections including: Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, New York Times, 100 New York Painters, Schiffler Publishing, Riverside Museum, Riverside, Ca., USA, The Museum of The City of New York, Mississippi Museum of Art, The New York Times, Comedynet.com, Associatedcontent.com, Current TV, Laforet Harajuku Museum, Tokyo, Japan, and Artist-In-Residency, Kunstlerhaus, Saarbruken, Germany. Finalist Elizabeth Hulings Foundation, 2014, Artist-In-Residency Program, Dilsberg, Germany, 2015, 3- time recipient Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation Artist Residency (ESKAFF), Jersey City, 2018-2019.
ABOU THE WORK
Gross equates her work with creating and building an environment, transforming her inner thoughts into reality. Beginning with the physical process, she works in layers. She is involved in solving visual and verbal complexities such as design and narrative. Her urban influence has indeed added an ‘edge’ to her work. The work on display depicts the diversity that she loves so much about Jersey City. That is why Gross calls it her home.
Scooter Girl was a small child following her mother who was wheeling a baby carriage. The painting focuses on observing the locals and how they live their daily lives.