:: Cynthia Dill

:: work

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:: contact

dillc@NewPaltz.edu

:: artist's statement

Competing issues disturb the peace in our ties to the natural world around us, and especially our maritime spaces. Recreation, industry, aesthetics and issues of convenience vs conservation all meet, greet and crash with varying degrees of humor and pathos. The amazing resiliancy of the natural world informs both my personal life and work. And sensuality of both the process of painting and medium, urge me to paint in response to the ebb and flow of our perpetual ties to the River and the Hudson Valley.

In the November, 2001 issue of the Chronogram, Beth Wilson writes in her column, “Lucid Dreaming”: She (Dill) has applied herself primarily to the issue of place , memorializing in paint local venues that now speak volumes about themselves, and the people and community connections (and disconnections) they represent. Essentially, Dill has conducted an aesthetic quest for the very things that many of us find ourselves doing in the rest of our lives, since September 11. Born in Texas and travelling throughout the U.S., Alaska and France, I have lived and worked as an artist in the Hudson Valley for the last 26 years. I studied in Florida, Italy, the New York Academy of Art, and at SUNY New Paltz where I received an MFA in painting. I have been listed in Who’s Who in American Women since 1999. My paintings can be seen in the permanent collections of Dutchess Community College, the Hudson River Maritime Museum, the Culinary Institute of America, the Deland Museum of Art and Cablewave Industries (Meriden, CT) and my work has been shown regionally and nationally in juried shows. My work is represented locally by James Cox in Willow, NY.