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Heather Sandifer

September 20th – November 15th, 2023
Solo Exhibition

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Pandemic Portraits No. 56, Barbara Leiner, painting, oil on canvas

Sarah Hinckley, The Sun is Fading Into a Passing Dream (1)

Drew King, "Get on the Bus," acrylic, oil on canvas

Pauline Galiana, "Shredded Impression 7," paper collage on Mylar

Reflections VIII, Claudia Mengel, work on paper, monotype

Cynthia Kirkwood, "Two, Red, Pink, and Blue," ink on Fabriano paper

Swimmer in Orange, Geoffrey Moss, mixed media, work on paper, graphite pencil, dry pigments and waxes on paper

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Nov 29

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CBCA In the Studio with Elena Lyakir⁠
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"The tremendous awe, beauty, and mystery contrasted by the feeling of being alarmedly exposed and insignificant against the magnitude of the landscape in Iceland is the Mysterium Tremendum I attempt to convey with these photographs." - Elena Lyakir⁠
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Elena Lyakir’s photography examines how emotions and memories are captured and represented through symbolism. Strongly informed by the emotional ramifications of her own displacement and diaspora, Lyakir describes herself as, “always in flux and on a journey to find a place to call home.” ⁠
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Additionally, she is intensely inspired by nature as a fundamental source of essence and myth and relates these feelings to her own immigration experience. The themes of beauty, nourishment, unpredictability, and fierceness are all prevalent in her work, most notably through her depiction of birds as symbols of hope, freedom, and migration.⁠
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Read Elena's Full Interview via the "In the Studio" link in CBCA's Instagram linktr.ee bio.⁠
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Nov 23

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The CBCA family is wishing a warm, happy, and bright Thanksgiving evening to all! Sending the joyous colors of autumn, the season of gratitude, your way through Liz Dexheimer’s 2016 monotype “Gathering”. Liz Dexheimer, “Gathering”, monotype, 2016, 42h x 29w ---⁠
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Nov 21

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“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” - John F. Kennedy⁠
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#CBCAartist George Chaplin "More (P43)," 2006, pastel on paper, 17h x 17w in.⁠
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Nov 1

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"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage." - Georgia O'Keeffe.⁠
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#CBCAartist @jamestgreco "Abstract Floral 3," 2022, acrylic, tempera on paper, 42h x 36w in.⁠
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Image 2: 'Paper Abstraction 4,' 2022, latex, enamel, acrylic on stretched paper mounted on frame, 72h x 48w in.⁠
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Image 3: James Greco, 'Abstract Floral 7,' 2022, acrylic, tempera on paper, 42h x 36w in.⁠
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Image 4: 'Paper Abstraction 1,' 2022, latex, enamel, acrylic on stretched paper mounted on frame, 72h x 48w in.⁠
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Oct 18

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"As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas, and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see." - Vincent Van Gogh⁠
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#CBCAArtist @karen_silve, "Market 18," 2015, acrylic on canvas, 50h x 56w in⁠
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Oct 7

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Oct 4

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CBCA in the Studio with Louise Crandell⁠
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"I listen to techno, dubstep and trance music while I’m working and I try not to think too much; not to force anything in particular. Mostly I’ll put down a few colors and shapes and see where they lead me; some sort of transcendent state. I don’t want my paintings to shout." - Louise Crandell⁠
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Louise Crandell virtually sat down with us to discuss her practice, creative process, and what inspires her work. Crandell is a painter whose ethereal, luminous landscapes hover somewhere between representation and abstraction, reality and memory, dealing with vague, fleeting recollections of places witnessed in the past and the powerful emotions they can evoke. ⁠
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Using a unique mixture of oil paint and wax, Crandell’s works are imbued with a translucent quality which perfectly complements the vague, barely discernible details of her pictures.⁠
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Read Louise Crandell's interview at https://www.cynthiabyrnes.com/louise-crandell-interview-october-2023/⁠
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Sep 28

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Artists Spotlight: Drew King “My work with abstract form, and with this recent series of oil paintings, focuses mainly on shape, form and volume as subject matter…Building my paintings involves a process of random marking and manipulation.
The effect is both organic and industrial. By layering straight and curved lines my aim is to form gestural constructions that are fluid and evolving.” -Drew king See more of Kings work at CynthiaByrnes.com Image 1: “Edgewater,” acrylic and oil on canvas, 40h x 40w in. Image 2: “Between Days,” acrylic and oil on canvas, 40h x 40w in. Image 3: “Over the Moon,” acrylic and oil on canvas, 46h x 40w in. Image 4: “Holiday,” oil on canvas, 40h x36w in. Image 5: “Get on the Bus,” acrylic and oil on canvas, 40h x 40w in. Cynthia Byrnes Contemporary Art⁠
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Sep 27

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Sep 19

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Get to know artist Claudia Mengel in the studio as she creates, explaining an exciting new process and collection of works. “It’s gonna be fun to get to know the process and be part of something that controls me as much as I try to control it” Cynthia Byrnes Contemporary Art⁠
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Sep 13

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“In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt." - Pablo Picasso⁠
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#CBCAartist Jill Moser, "Pink Mama," 2018, 12 color screen print on Rives BFK, 35h x 30w in. ⁠
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Image 2: "New Morning," 2013, oil and acrylic on canvas, 37h x 35w in.⁠
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Image 3: "Cycle X-27, 2013," unique monoprinted screenprints; etching, lithographic, and silkscreen inks on Rives BFK, 40h x 43w in.⁠
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Image 4: Blues, 2013, oil and acrylic on canvas, 55h x 56w in.⁠
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Sep 6

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CBCA in the Studio with Will Clift⁠
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Sculptor, Will Clift, virtually sat down with us to discuss his new body of work, his motivations, and his creative process. Clift explores gesture in sculpture through the interaction of form and balance. His sculptures consist of intersecting parts that stand in equilibrium. No part is extraneous, and the delicacy of this balance reveals the fine line between weight and weightlessness, motion and stillness. He captures the moment between being grounded and taking flight, the pure potential of movement that has not quite commenced.⁠
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Beginning each sculpture with a form or moment in the world around him that captures his attention, Clift’s process relies on intuition and a carefully honed sense of balance and proportion.⁠
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For each of his elegant sculptures, Clift’s hope is that, ‘the balance between movement and stillness evokes a sense of harmony, playfulness and wonder.'⁠
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CBCA: What thoughts go through your mind when you create?⁠
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Will Clift: All sorts of thoughts go through my head day and night, and it’s no different when I’m creating a new work. But over the years I’ve learned to let go of those thoughts, to allow them to come and go but to not encourage them, not listen to them. So many thoughts bring with them ‘shoulds,’ comparisons, or intellectual ideas, and these can get in the way of something truer that is what I’m trying to allow out. When I can get past the thoughts, that’s when I can reconnect to that old intuition that I had when I was young, to get my head out of my own way, to work in a way that is largely naïve to the world and to the art world in particular. ⁠
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Read Will Clift's full interview at https://www.cynthiabyrnes.com/will-clift-interview-september-2023/⁠
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Aug 25

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"Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us." - Maya Angelou⁠
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Image 1: Laura Fayer, "Light Matter," 2015, acrylic and Japanese paper on canvas, 36h x 48w in.⁠
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Image 2: Emily Hamilton Laux, "Fences Half Consumed: Finny," 2015, archival pigment print⁠
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Image 3: Perry Obee, "Marshall I," lithograph, chine colle, 15h x 18w in., ed. AP⁠
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Image 4: Vittorio Masoni, "Sweet Dreams," 2010, acrylic on canvas, 16h x 19 1/2w in.⁠
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Aug 15

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CBCA’s Alice Roosevelt 🐶 is who you have to impress during studio visits. Cynthia Byrnes Contemporary Art
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Aug 9

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"Though we travel the world to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." - Ralph Waldo Emerson⁠
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Image #1: Benice Horowitz, 'Sag Harbor Series 2,' 2010, acrylic on paper, 22h x 30w in.⁠
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Image #2: Ann Conrad, "Casco Bay 22," 2004, solar intaglio with hand coloring, printed/painted on gray magnani pescia, 22h x 30w in.⁠
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Image #3: J. Henry Fair, "Doors to Nowhere," 2013, chromogenic print, ed. 8⁠
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Image #4: Joy Moser, "Far Point," 2011, oil on wood, 24h x 24w in.⁠
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Aug 5

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Watch @syragomez unglazed porcelain flower installation come alive! Cynthia Byrnes Contemporary Art
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Aug 2

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Painter Mike Filan virtually sat down with us to discuss his new body of work, “The Freedom Series.” Michael Filan’s painting process has become brushless. The gestures, drips and splashes that unite his work have become increasingly more intricate over time and address viewers in a language that is private, intense and consistently self-referential. ⁠
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Within the context of abstraction, Filan is constantly inventing a new vocabulary that employs gesture, form and notation. The intensity of color is used as a mystical guide that leads him through the creation process. Spacial planes are created on the painting’s surface that offer resting points for viewers to pause before further embarking on a journey of exploration.⁠
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CBCA: What is your work/ this new body about?⁠
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Mike Filan: The paintings in ”The Freedom Series” express his euphoric sense of freedom that he feels when creating artwork. I put pieces together, reliving memories and inventing new alphabets to create compositions that have a frenetic, phonetic, energetic, and sympathetic inclusionary invitation to viewers. The series explores my sense of freedom, joy, and pleasure mixed together with a childhood and adult understanding of some of life’s mysteries — combined with many surprises.⁠
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Read Mike Filan's full interview at https://www.cynthiabyrnes.com/mike-filan-interview-august-2023/⁠
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Jul 31

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Jul 21

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#repost from @gideonmendelson Adding two works on paper by #CBCAArtist @jeanettefintz elevates this already stunning kitchen Cynthia Byrnes Contemporary Art
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In the Studio with Louise Crandell

November 8th, 2023

Elena Lyakir virtually sat down with us to discuss her new body of photographs, Mysterium Tremendum, featuring the Icelandic landscape.

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In the Studio with Louise Crandell

October 4, 2023

Louise Crandell virtually sat down with us to discuss her practice, creative process, and what inspires her work.

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In the Studio with Will Clift

September 6th, 2023

Sculptor, Will Clift, virtually sat down with us to discuss his new body of work, his motivations, and his creative process.

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In the Studio with Irene Yesley

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In the Studio with Mike Filan

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Mind and Body: Pauline Galiana Solo Show

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Subject to Change, Photographs by Vicky Stromee

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In the Studio with Geoffrey Moss

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The D&D’s Spring Market Keynote Event, May 10, 2023

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Beauty/Destruction

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CBCA curates a colorful collection for Farrow & Ball’s Virtual Home

Showhouse

Tour the Showhouse

In the Stuido with Dana Saulnier

Artist Interview

Are We There Yet?

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In the Studio with Rebecca Welz

Artist Interview

Design on a Dime Benefit

Event

Congrats to Liz Dexheimer

Artsy Editorial

In the Studio with Kaz Strankowski

Artist Interview

In the Studio with Sarah Hinckley

Artist Interview

In the Studio with Zemma Mastin White

Artist Interview

Rooms with a View 2022

Showhouse

Introducing Katrine Hildebrandt

New Artist

Normal For Now

Exhibition

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New Series

Introducing Rebecca Welz

New Artist

Collect, Collaborate, Decorate

Past Event

The Face of America Feature

Press Highlight

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In the Studio with Perry Burns

In the Studio

Introducing Michael Filan

New Artist

Designing With Fine Art & Wallcovering

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Case Study

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In the Studio with J Henry Fair

Artist Interview

Introducing Christina Watka

New Artist

CBCA Collaborates with Kevin Isbell

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That’s a Wrap!

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Introducing Emily Hamilton Laux

New Artist

Introducing Brian Walters II

New Artist

Brilliant Gems

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In the Studio with Bastienne Schmidt

Artist Interview