Cher Juracich

Eve

Eve

Work Details

Eve

2023

Oil on canvas

66" X 78"

Inventory ID: # 3670





    About Cher Juracich

    For the last several years, evident history has been a point of focus in my work. I have painted subjects that are storied by time and their journey up until that moment. Wondering about the process that brought a canyon to form or the time and events it took for a car to become a dilapidated ruin motivated my study. Portraits and figures have been a vehicle for this curiosity as well.

    In the past year, outside of the studio, I began to dig into my interest in photographic vernacular of the past. I was pulled by the feeling of peering into a moment in time that was unselfconsciously and unwittingly part of a history that would later become known. The intimacy in some of these everyday pictorial moments connects me to the sense that my human experience has been shared by countless others across time.

    Allowing this intrigue to bleed into my work, I began to search within my own past, before my birth, for moments of pivotal importance. A couples motorcycle club that my grandparents belonged to. The infatuation that drew them together. The hospital stay after the birth of my mother. The beach near their family home. I wanted to stand with them in those moments.

    I felt it was important to depict these imaginings at life size and in a visual style that related to the time in which they happened. For this, I employed influences from the illustration of the early to mid 20th century, rhythms and shapes that describe forms with efficiency, and a limited palette with less modern pigments.

    This focus on personal history has opened the door for me to explore narrative within my figurative paintings. Since those first few large-scale paintings, I am moving into less personal and more broad behavioral and situational concepts. My intention with this series is to offer contexts for the viewer to enter with enough information to tell themselves a story about what is happening but not so much as to control the narrative.
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    Born in 1986, Cher grew up in Northern California with parents whose love of music and the outdoors fed her passions for expression and exploration. She sang in musical productions throughout childhood and spent free time drawing and tending to the pets she would make of small wild animals. She moved to Arizona in 2000, where she rooted into art studies and soon became a mother in 2003. She received a BFA in Painting from Arizona State University in 2014. Thereafter, she worked as an illustrator in the EdTech industry developing curriculum for K-12 online classes. In 2021, she left her job to pursue painting full time.

    All Works by Cher Juracich

    Eve

    Eve

    2023

    Oil on canvas

    66" X 78"

    Inventory ID: # 3670

    Orange County Curve

    Orange County Curve

    2024

    Oil on Canvas

    31 X 45.5 Canvas

    Inventory ID: # 3811

    Happy Hour

    Happy Hour

    2024

    Oil on Canvas

    36 X 80 Canvas

    Inventory ID: # 3813

    Daily Reprieve

    Daily Reprieve

    2023

    Oil on canvas

    48" X 60"

    Inventory ID: # 3668

    I Hear Your Name in Everything

    I Hear Your Name in Everything

    2023

    Oil on canvas

    48" X 66"

    Inventory ID: # 3669

    Sunshine

    Sunshine

    2022

    oil on canvas

    60 X 54

    Inventory ID: # 3539

    Deep end

    Deep end

    2022

    oil on canvas

    56 X 72

    Inventory ID: # 3540