Dale's Story

Dale Cherney was an artist who carefully examined the everyday and familiar from a perspective that was anything but. Throughout her career she created bold original forms that explored the contrast of movement amid stillness.

Born in 1985, Dale Cherney began her art as a young child, winning many art contests from elementary school through high school. She studied art as an undergraduate at Cornell University where her photography was published in Untitled Magazine’s Surreal series, April 2006.

Cherney's photographs have been showcased at Cornell’s Alice Cook House as well as its Johnson Museum of Art. Dale did fashion photography and promotional advertising work for the artist Bob Daniels, as well as created CD covers for several musical groups.

In 2012 Dale Cherney came to Stony Brook University, where she continued her art studies. Sadly, on June 3, 2015, Cherney passed away from complications of schizophrenia. Her work is currently being displayed at the Charles B. Wang Center Zodiac Gallery.