Suite 3-139

www.cynthiagrow.com

cynthiagrowart@yahoo.com  

609-610-2958

Hours by appointment

Reflective of time spent in Italy, Grow’s ongoing work finds expressive purpose in abstraction and looks to nature – at once profoundly simple and quite complex, to reveal emotional and dramatic content.  Themes of change, death, renewal, evolution – synonymous with nature itself, are used as metaphors for human emotion and relationships.

Biography

Cynthia Grow received a diploma in Contemporary Painting and Ancient Painting Techniques from Accademia d’Arte in Florence, Italy and has attended art workshops and seminars throughout Italy, as well as New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, & Sculpture, National Academy of Design School of Fine Art, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In addition to studio training, she received a Master of Liberal Arts with a concentration in 20th Century Arts & Literature from University of South Florida.  She has worked for contemporary art galleries in New York and Philadelphia as well as the Editorial Department of Fine Art Books at Princeton University Press. She recently completed a program

at Christie’s Education New York, receiving a Graduate Certificate in Modern Art, Connoisseurship & History of the Art Market.

Grow’s paintings hang in a number of private collections and her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions in galleries and public spaces both in the United States and abroad, including New York and Philadelphia as well as Florence, Siena, Lucca, and Venice, Italy.

Currently in the Studio

Night Sea is my newest and still-evolving series. In these large-scale paintings, I have created moody, atmospheric renderings of gathering storm clouds slowly drifting, moving, and swelling over dark seas. These works have been created with a limited palette of blue and grey and draw from no documentary source other than imagination and memory. What results is a sense of uneasy premonition and impending turmoil running throughout the work: introspective, isolated, and lonely, these works look to nature’s atmosphere of uncertainty as metaphor for human emotion.