Artist Bio
Cynthia Winika is a multi-media artist who has shown her work in museums and galleries in the US and abroad. She is the principle encaustic instructor for R&F Handmade Paints and has been teaching nationally and internationally for over 15 years. She has received grants from the Women's Studio Workshop and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her paintings and encaustic technical advice are featured in The Art of Encaustic Painting by Joanne Mattera. To view more of Cynthia's work, go to www.chelseaartgalleries.com.
Artist Statement
I have always been attracted to the saturation, sensuality, and mysterious veiled quality of beeswax based paintings; especially the Fayum mummy portraits. Painting, doing collage
work, and printmaking, combined with the use of encaustic technique allowes me a way of invigorating and combining these processes. This has led to my current work. I love
the way I can subdue or clarify an underlying work by varying the number of wax applications. Layering with encaustic medium, scribing and filling incisions with oil paint to give a dry point look, creating multi-level, layered collages allows me to create a depth under my surface with an archeological quality, expressing the history of the process.
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EDUCATION
Taipei, Taiwan, ROC Private instruction in Chinese calligraphy, art history, painting, philosophy, language
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI. Chinese art history, painting.
State University of New York at New Paltz, B.S. in Art Ed. emphasis on painting and printmaking.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
A.I.R. Gallery, NYC Solo Show / 2006
A.I.R. Gallery, NYC National Members Exhibition / 2005
Gallery at R&F, Kingston NY: Unbound / 2005
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. SUNY New Paltz, NY: Out of the Vault, Recent Acquisitions / 2004
Schenectady Museum: Mohawk/Hudson Regional exhibition / 2004
Galerie Hendrich-Kleist-Haus: Lichtpause:Fulen um zu Begreifen, Berlin, Germany / 2004
WomanMade Gallery: Chicago IL Spatially Inspired curated by Ilse Bolle / 2004
Dutchess Community College: Surface, Matter, and Artifice. Curated by Juan Garcia-Nunez / 2003
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hackensack, NJ: solo show: Chinese Well Fireworks Drawings / 2003
Gallerie Burgerhaus Stollwerk, Cologne, Germany / 2003
American PotluckBennington College, Bennington, VT / 2003
Faculty Exhibition, North Country Studio Conference / 2003
Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, IL The Whole Ball of Wax / 2003
Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter NY / 2002
UNREPRODUCABLE:curated by Fawn Potash Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT / 2002/br> Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz: Hudson Valley Artists / 2002
New York Mercantile Exchange, NYC, NY: Uncommon Portrayals / 2001
Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY, Exhibition by Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region / 2001
Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH: Images in Wax: (Contemporary Encaustic) / 2001
Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY, curated by Carl Plansky to: Artists in the Art Industry / 2001
Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD: Snapshot / 2000
Gallery at R&F, Kingston, NY: Installation: From Process to Object: A Collaborative Artists’ Book / 2000
The Gallery at R&F, Kingston, NY / 1995 Nancy Margolis Gallery, Portland, ME / 1995
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Hudson River Museum of Westchester, NY / 1992
Smithsonian Institution, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC / 1991
Philadelphia Print Club, Philadelphia, PA / 1992
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Cleveland Art Institute, Harvard Fine Arts Library, State University of New York at New Paltz, NY Institutional Libraries at: Harvard, Yale, Skidmore College, Rochester Institute of Technology, Univ. of theCommonwealth of VA, University of DE, Reed College, Califa Books San Francis, Women’s Studio Workshop
AWARDS
Schenectady Museum: Mohawk/Hudson Regional award winner: Omni Corporation / 2004
New York State Foundation for the Arts: S.O.S. grant recipient / 2001
Women’s Studio Workshop artist’s book production grant, funded in part by the NYSCAPanelist: Dutchess Council County on the Arts Project Grants for Ulster County, NYArt News Award: Cooperstown Art Association Juried Annual Show / 2000
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
New York Times, Westchester Section Unbound: Selected Artists by D. Dominick Lombardi
New American Painting, Vol. #56, Open Studio Press, Boston, MA / 2005
Collage Sourcebook: Rockport Publishing, MA/ 2005
Lichtpause: Exhibition Catalog.. Fulen um zu Begreifen, Berlin, Germany / 2004
Observer: State University of New York at New Paltz alumni news quarterly, vol .XX1 #2/ 2003
Collage for the Soul: Rockport Publishing / 2002
The Art of Encaustic Painting by Joanne Mattera, published by Watson-Guptill, New York, NY / 2001
Artist Proofs. A CD-ROM catalogue for Snapshot, Contemporary Museum Baltimore / 2000
Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America by Gail Stavitsky, published by the Montclair Art Museum / 1999
Represented by: A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
