Photographic artist CHERYL MEDOW (UCLA BFA Fine Arts, 1967) has worked in ceramics, watercolor, pastels and printmaking and now works primarily with a professional digital camera, Photoshop and related applications. Medow’s trained eye and seasoned photographic skills allow the viewer an entirely new way to “see” the beauty of the natural world. For her series Envisioning Habitat, An Altered Reality Medow incorporates her classical training in the arts with her creative and imaging skills to transform the sublime beauty of nature with gesture, line, shape, balance and color. Traveling widely in pursuit of her vision, she captures images of birds in the wild, which she then blends with multiple hyper-realistic landscape images to create idealized habitats for the birds she has chosen to celebrate. For Medow, her final compositions serve as a reminder for viewers of the majesty of our natural world. Since first exhibiting her work in 2006, Medow has received many accolades and her work is held within many collections. In 2019, ten images from Medow’s Envisoning Habitat series were on view at the Chicago Museum of Science, Peggy Notebaert Museum and the Wildling Museum in Solvang, California hosted an exhibition in 2018 entitled Nature Imagined that included twenty-two of her images from this series.

Most recently Medow’s work was published in Zoom, Collecting Photography #256, from Italy in 2019. LensWork #133 (August 2017) featured Medow’s work on the cover and included a portfolio of images within. In 2015, an article and portfolio of her work The Art Of Birds, Revealed Through An Altered Reality was published in National Geographic PROOF (Online). Medow’s photographs were first published in Nash Editions: Photography and the Art of Digital Printing (New Riders, 2007).