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The Elegance of Artistic Ritual - Gathering Absence This work on alterations to a body, mind, soul, and emotions - during a life threatening illness -- reveals the paradox of health and sanity in visions of inner sanctums during external terror. Each personal haven spawns discoveries from the frightening, yet reassuring territory of the infinite eternal, allowing for visionary results of passionate freedom of life to be re-discovered. |
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shapes are poised in an ethereal ambiance, wrought during many layers
of paint build-up.
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In the mist of illness there is prosperity. My work, is my perception of an inner spiritual core; where the infinite curing source resides. It is in this space of vast emptiness where we all merge, and become our true self. Through raw, honest paintings, the experience of a quiet mystery exists. |
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Cynthia Hurtubis' work explores many of life's linked dualities. Cynthia struggled with Aplastic Anemia for over 6 years before her untimely death. The strain of illness, while a drain on the body, fueled her art with questions and visions of internal and external worlds. She created spaces, simultaneously vast and microscopic, expanding infinitely in both directions. Cynthia used the vocabulary of her illness, the cells that made up her blood, to depict abstractions of emotion and spirit - to contemplate the quiet mystery of our bodies. Cynthia received her masters in Fine Art at John F. Kennedy University. Her master’s exhibition, supported by a Murphy Cadogen award, allowed her final exhibition to become a true success. In addition to exhibiting her work in several galleries, she held public lectures on healing light in artwork. The di Rosa Foundation added her painting; Rusty Man, to their Bay Area artist collection. Cynthia Hurtubis's last work was with tar, ink, and oil paintings. Discussions revolved around dreams, text, symbol, and story telling. |
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"Art is just such a method of questioning, and what it sees and depicts results from
what it asks of its subject matter." Jamake Highwater |
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