Cynthia Back
Primary Medium: Printmaking
Other media: Mixed media
Cynthia Back
Email: Cbackstudio (at) aol (dot) com
Website: http://www.Inliquid.com/art/otherportals/back.php
Artist Statement
I work as a printmaker and painter. I am drawn to water for its design and abstract qualities, but most especially because it is a resource that is being commodified, a force of nature that is destructive by its absence and presence, a life force, and a constantly changing source of beauty and pleasure. Much of my current work is concerned with the idea of rivers and their tributaries, and bays and rocky coastlines. I return again and again to the same places, focusing on light and movement.
I like the discipline and forethought of the reduction linocut process and the surprises that come with each new color printing. Starting with observation, the final images are culled from memory, shaped by my own experiences and perspectives.
I often work in series, finding it an excellent way to explore many possibilities concerning one theme.
Other media: Mixed media
Cynthia Back
Email: Cbackstudio (at) aol (dot) com
Website: http://www.Inliquid.com/art/otherportals/back.php
Artist Statement
I work as a printmaker and painter. I am drawn to water for its design and abstract qualities, but most especially because it is a resource that is being commodified, a force of nature that is destructive by its absence and presence, a life force, and a constantly changing source of beauty and pleasure. Much of my current work is concerned with the idea of rivers and their tributaries, and bays and rocky coastlines. I return again and again to the same places, focusing on light and movement.
I like the discipline and forethought of the reduction linocut process and the surprises that come with each new color printing. Starting with observation, the final images are culled from memory, shaped by my own experiences and perspectives.
I often work in series, finding it an excellent way to explore many possibilities concerning one theme.
Selected Works
|  Hammmonasset Beach #1 - 2008 - reduction linocut - 8" x 10" - $250.00 [Fundraiser] View of Long Island Sound from Hammonasset Beach State Park, CT in winter.  Hammonasset Beach #2 - 2008 - reduction linocut - 8" x 10" - $250.00 [Fundraiser] A view of Long Island Sound from Hammonasset Beach State Park in winter.  Passage #2 - 2009 - reduction linocut - 24" x 18" - $900.00 Leaves floating on water late in autumn. |
Artist Bio
Cynthia Back is a printmaker and painter who has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant in 2005, a Puffin Foundation grant in 2003, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1996; a residency to Acadia National Park in 2009; fellowships to The Ballinglen Arts Foundation Ltd., Co. Mayo, Ireland in 1997 and 1999, Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain in 2000, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in 2000, The Cill Rialaig Project, Co. Kerry, Ireland in 1999, and The MacDowell Colony in 1994. Her work is included in numerous private and corporate collections, including The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., the New York Public Library, the Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and The New-York Historical Society. Ms. Back received her B.F.A. at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and studied at Wimbledon School of Art and St. Martin's School of Art in London, England. She currently lives in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.