491 - Cheryl Wassenaar, "A Delta + Columbia PKWY", signed mixed media work from 2002, one-off

Cheryl Wassenaar, "A Delta + Columbia PKWY", signed mixed media work from 2002, one-off Cheryl Wassenaar, American artist, "A Delta + Columbia PKWY", Sign Construction, mixed media/wood/varnish/perforation, 33.5 x 34 x 6.5 cm, signed, dated and titled on the reverse About the artist: Studied at the University of Cincinnati; Professor at the College of Art at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St Louis, Missouri; she explores the function of text within a hybrid practice encompassing painting, sculpture and design; she works primarily with found and manufactured commercial signs - which bear the traces of accumulated experiences, signs of wear and weathering, and encapsulate urban history - transforming the discarded wood into visual communication metaphors that draw on the language of modernist painting and contemporary advertising.