Featured Artist: Cherry Koch

Cherry Koch is one of our Featured Artists! Her piece "In the Garden" is currently up in our office.

Let's learn a little more about Cherry!

Cherry Koch works from a portside studio in Duluth Minnesota where she produces paintings, sculptures, and other mixed media creations. A self-proclaimed “punk rock painter” Cherry has accumulated a long history of non-traditional experience. This includes warehouse art exhibits, underground fashion shows, and DIY festivals.

Despite living in a city with no lack of inspiring vistas, you won’t find landscapes inside her sketchbooks. People, emotions, and relationships are what motivate Cherry’s work. Her narrative-infused portraits are “love letters” to her friends, as she creates dreamy worlds for them to exist eternally. Making use of a bright color pallet and cheap craft materials, the paintings conjure a feeling of nostalgia while the subject matter within adds a layer of unexpected horror. This is her depiction of reality, void of toxic positivity.