CINDY RIZZA
ARTIST STATEMENT
My recent still lives are celebratory portraits of the remains of caretaking. These material things used for function and decoration are experienced close to our bodies and thus form some of our most intimate memories of sanctuary. Stacked textiles and domestic comforts bloom with patterns and repetition ensuring us that their comfort is unyielding even when no longer needed. When juxtaposed with natural settings outside of their native interior habitats, these heirlooms transcend their functions to become identities in themselves, creating order and beauty in an unmanageable world.
Native to Maine, Cindy Rizza is a classically trained, representational oil painter with her BFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Her iconic representations of familiar domestic subjects summon conflicting feelings of comfort and loneliness, hope and foreboding, and of life and loss. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant, Second Prize at the 9th Annual Lore Degenstein National Figurative Drawing and Painting Competition at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA and most recently the Best of Show Prize at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art Annual Juried National Exhibition, in Wausau, WI. Her work is collected internationally. Cindy lives and works in Southern New Hampshire.
My recent still lives are celebratory portraits of the remains of caretaking. These material things used for function and decoration are experienced close to our bodies and thus form some of our most intimate memories of sanctuary. Stacked textiles and domestic comforts bloom with patterns and repetition ensuring us that their comfort is unyielding even when no longer needed. When juxtaposed with natural settings outside of their native interior habitats, these heirlooms transcend their functions to become identities in themselves, creating order and beauty in an unmanageable world.
Native to Maine, Cindy Rizza is a classically trained, representational oil painter with her BFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Her iconic representations of familiar domestic subjects summon conflicting feelings of comfort and loneliness, hope and foreboding, and of life and loss. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant, Second Prize at the 9th Annual Lore Degenstein National Figurative Drawing and Painting Competition at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA and most recently the Best of Show Prize at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art Annual Juried National Exhibition, in Wausau, WI. Her work is collected internationally. Cindy lives and works in Southern New Hampshire.
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