Artist Statement
Ms. St. Onge grew up on college campus and on the back of a red roan pony. She cites making pictures with a view camera, as a pivotal point where short of horses, she discovered her next passion. In graduate school as an intern at M.I.T. she contact printed the archives of Dr. Harold Edgerton and discovered that intersection of art and science as impetus for much of her work.
Process Statement
Using an 8 x 10 view camera, the negatives are contact printed for artist proofs and archiving and then scanned into digital files for enlargements.
Cheryle St. Onge as the daughter of a physicist and a painter, her childhood was the cross over of art and science. Her photographs have been widely exhibited and included in four books. She has received numerous awards, among them a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and a Polaroid Artist Materials Grant. She has an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and is a photography faculty member at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
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