Cynthia Tudor
I do not enter the studio to create something to see, but to leave behind what you do not want to look away from.
Biography
Early into my marriage, I underwent a bilateral mastectomy. The healing that followed over the next year was more emotional than physical. The struggle to stand naked before a mirror and feel within myself as a woman... whole. I used to idly sketch on a drawing pad through the afternoons to pass the time. Nothing serious. But my husband one day suggested returning to school. Study fine arts. I enrolled in a small local university with a focus at first upon drawing, then broadened out to printmaking. I completed a BFA, then later attended graduated school for art education to teach. I would work with inner-city elementary children throughout the day, and afterwards climb the stairs of an old warehouse to my studio. I'd begin laying out the materials that I needed, while waiting for the model to arrive.
Influences
Egon Schiele, Kathe Kollwitz, Max Beckmann, Franz Marc, Otto Dix, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Education
The artist at work
Solo Expositions
2023 "The Fourth Rule - A Story for Annabelle" My work was selected for the cover of a political thriller by Oliver Adkins to be released in the Spring of 2024. Dayton, OH, United States
Collective Expositions
2004 "Digressions in Line" An Exhibition of 22-Printmakers from Three Cities: Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus. Dayton, OH, United States
2001 "Dayton Billboard Project" I created a mural of a still life measuring 11 x 24 ft. for the city. Dayton, OH, United States