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My recent work is concerned with the ritual of layering, light and mixed media. I am exploring the spaces between structure, fluidity, and density, and the visible effects of light through pigment in relation to the materials and weather. My working methods have developed out of many layers of translucent applications of wax to create a moment in time. Accidentally my new Patron Saints of weather were transformed from an earlier series influenced by views from the deck and the constant world surrounded by weather in living in the Lower Cape. This new series are a bit reminiscent of Mexican Retablos, which are devotional paintings on canvas or tin which offer thanks to a particular saint in the form of a short narrative, believers displayed them in home altars to honor their patron Saints. After doing much research I found that there are patron Saints of everything! From good weather to wax melters.

Cherie Mittenthal works in many mediums: wax, tar, marble dust, oil sticks, graphite and miscellaneous mediums. She graduated with a Master in Fine Arts degree from the State University of New York at Purchase and Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford. She is the Executive Director of Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. She is the Chair of the Provincetown Cultural Center, treasurer of the board of Campus Provincetown and a member of the Provincetown Economic Development Task Force.

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