Nalini Cheriel

Nalini ‘Deedee’ Cheriel is a visual artist who started out creating record covers and T-shirts in the early ‘90s music scene. Born in the hippie town of Eugene, Oregon, she started a record label at the age of 19. Influenced by the popular DIY culture of that time, she played in several all-girl bands (Juned, Adickdid, The Teenangels, The Hindi Guns) and co-created the semi-autobiographical movie, Down and Out with the Dolls . The artist has lived and studied abroad: Honduras, Chile, England, Portugal, Spain and her native India. She graduated from the University of Oregon with a BA. Now residing in Los Angeles, Cheriel’s work explores roles of race, gender, class, environment and power in tales that channel the visual lexicons of girl rock bands, ancient and modern pop culture, East Indian temple imagery, revolutionary movements, and her Pacific Northwest natural environment through narratives. Her images are indications of how we try to connect ourselves to others and how these satirical and heroic efforts are episodes of compassion and discomfort. Bold elements drawn from landscapes -both urban and natural- and pop culture suggest the ability to find commonalities and relationships between ourselves and our surroundings that inevitably confirm our greater humanity and quest towards love. Book of Disbelieving by David Lawrence Morse 11 /2022 Mother Wild Illustration 5/2022. North American Review Feature 7/2022. Travel and Design Magazine 3/2022 Stuttgarter Zeitung 2/11/2022 Geese are Never Swans by Eva Clark (Published by Kobe Bryants Granity Books) illustration, 2021 Chattahoochee Review, cover, feature, spring 2020 Spirituality and Health July 2019 12 pages, interview Jet Fuel Magazine Cover/ Feature 2021 Juxtapoz WILD, 2016 Indiana Review, Volume 37/Number 2, 2016 (cover art) "Dreams I Never Told You & Letters I Never Sent" Poems by David Wojciechowski, 2017 (cover art) Epoch, Volume 65/Number 3, 2016 (cover art) LA WEEKLY 9/2019 Zinc: Arts, Lettres et Culture, 2016 (cover art) The Independant UK Feature 2016 BL!SSS Magazine 39, 2010 Kult, Issue 9 "Earth" BlackBook Magazine, 2015 Outside the Lines, Too: An Inspired and Inventive Coloring Book by Creative Masterminds, 2015 Queremos! "5 Anos de Shows em 67 Posters, 2015 Taschen, Illustration Now! 5, 2015 "For Another Writing Back" by Elaine Bleakney, 2014 (cover art)