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A new piece in progress with hand shadow

A new piece in progress with hand shadow

Thank you to the @hambidgecenter and my fellow res

Thank you to the @hambidgecenter and my fellow residents for the conversations, space and time for reflection.🌿✨🌼🦌🌕 #hambidge #hambidgecenter

Please watch @jackpetocz makes me proud to be a

Please watch

@jackpetocz makes me proud to be a Floridian. Thank you ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

#votedesantisout

Good Morning painting Thai Basil @tinylittleland

Good Morning painting Thai Basil

@tinylittlelandscapes
#tinylittlelandscapes

New ‘Limp Pricks and Plants’ out of the kiln t

New ‘Limp Pricks and Plants’ out of the kiln today, super excited to get these on the wall.

So grateful to Lynn at The Clay Center of St Petersburg for her guidance 🔥

#porcelain

Thank you @baashgaahgallery and @alirezajavadiart

Thank you @baashgaahgallery and @alirezajavadiart 🔥 🌱

As the third #Prosopography continues, we shall see and hear #CynthiaMason on her work.

New work in process

New work in process

Great Book ⚡️🌱✨🐍

Great Book ⚡️🌱✨🐍

‘Snake Bite’ (2021) is a 10 by 8-foot hand-sew

‘Snake Bite’ (2021) is a 10 by 8-foot hand-sewn, hanging room divider with pink-tipped limp appendages cascading down its body.

The image of the rattlesnake was used as white colonist propaganda between 1751 and 1861 by visual artists Benjamin Franklin and Charles Gadsden. Appropriated from the Cherokee, Delaware, and Creek Tribes, early white colonists tapped into fears of sharing this new unruly landscape with its native inhabitants.

Colonial propaganda of the time like this example from Louisiana in 1774 (image 3), depict an indigenous warrior with a serpent tattoo on his chest holding a snake in his right hand and a scalp in his left, suggesting that the serpentine nature and powers of North American indigenous people pose a threat to colonists’ safety.

The rattlesnake image appropriated from the North American tribes soon became the primary visual symbol of a nation that optimistic white colonial writers called a second Eden.

For further reading on this I highly recommend ZM Hutchens essay “Rattlesnakes in the Garden, The Fascinating Serpents of the Early, Edenic Republic.’

#art21artbreak

Thank you @baashgaahgallery and @alirezajavadiart

Thank you @baashgaahgallery and @alirezajavadiart for featuring my process and work in your #Prosopography series🔥

Posted @withregram • @baashgaahgallery The #Prosopography introduces the artists whose works are related to one of the #Baashgaahprojects.

In the following section of the third #Prosopography, we review the making process of an artwork by #CynthiaMason.

Each work of art is created through a process of the artist's experiences, skills, identity, and personal and social circumstances, but what the audience encounters is only the final result. While the audience's awareness of the process of forming the work, opens a new path of art and artist ahead of them, and brings a sense of audience's participation in art.

#شناخت‌_نامه به معرفی هنرمندانی می پردازد که آثار آن‌ها در ارتباط با یکی از پروژه‌های باشگاه است.
در بخشی از سومین شناخت‌نامه، فرآیند شکل‌گیری اثری از #سینتیاماسون را مرور می‌کنیم.

هر اثر هنری فرآیندی از تجربیات، مهارت، هویت و شرایط فردی و اجتماعی هنرمند را طی کرده اما آنچه مخاطب با آن رو به رو می‌شود تنها نتیجه نهایی است. در حالی که آگاهی مخاطب از فرآیند شکل گیری اثر، مسیر تازه‌ای از هنر و هنرمند را به سوی مخاطب باز می‌کند و حسی از مشارکت مخاطب در هنر را به همراه دارد.

#Prosopography
#baashgaahartgallery
@cynthiamasonvisualart
@alirezajavadiart

Molded Breasts Linked by Ever Continuing Spirals t

Molded Breasts Linked by Ever Continuing Spirals that Decorated the Ceiling around All Four Walls of a Large Hall at the Palace at Zakros. Herakleion Museum, Crete. From In Search of the Lost Feminine, by Craig S. Barnes, Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 2006

A must read: Craig S. Barnes book In Search of the Lost Feminine: Decoding the Myths That Radically Reshaped Civilization discusses the earliest civilizations in which women and the environment were at the center, the contributing factors in the creation of patriarchal societies, which have dominated for 3,500 years, and the dramatic effect this change has had on Western history.

Some new tiny little landscape paintings I have be

Some new tiny little landscape paintings I have been working on. It’s been really freeing to work in a smaller pocket size format. Limiting my working time has allowed for beautiful imperfections to remain. Sitting down to record immediate observations has been really liberating and calming 💛🌙☀️✨

Really excited about these little ones
🌱✨ 🌼 50 porcelain and terracotta sperm/stamen for a new painted construction

Thank you @baashgaahgallery and @alirezajavadiart

Thank you @baashgaahgallery and @alirezajavadiart for featuring my process and work in this beautiful series 🌱

Posted @withregram • @baashgaahgallery Trained as an architect and fascinated by the overlap and edges of topographies, Cynthia Mason makes soft sculptures and mixed media constructions that scramble the spatial and material codes of painting and sculpture.
Mason’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States. Mason received her MFA at the University of South Florida and BFA from Ringling College. She is the recipient of a Professional Artists Grant from Creative Pinellas, an Honorable Mention in the Visual Arts by CAA, two Florida Artist Enhancement Grants and has been selected for numerous artist residences including The Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap Georgia, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, The Carrizozo Artists in Residence Program in Carrizozo, NM, Jentel Artist Residency Program in Banner, Wyoming; and the School of Visual Arts Summer Painting Program in New York.
Cynthia currently lives and works in St Petersburg, Florida.

سينتيا ماسون در رشته معماري تحصیل و شيفته ی همپوشاني ها و خطوط توپوگرافي است.
مجسمه های او که از پارچه یا ترکیب مواد شکل می گیرند، سازه هايي هستند كه كدهاي فضا محور و ماديِ نقاشي و مجسمه سازي را در هم مي آميزند.
آثار ماسون در نمايشگاه هاي انفرادي و گروهي متعددي در گالري ها و موزه هاي مختلف ايالات متحده به نمايش درآمده اند. او مدرک کارشناسی هنرهای زیبای خود را از دانشگاه فلوریدای جنوبی و کارشناسی هنرهای زیبای خود را از کالج رینگلینگ اخذ کرده است و دریافت کننده بورسیه هنرمند حرفه ایی پینال، عنوان افتخاری در پلتفرم هنرهای بصری سی. ای. ای.، دو دوره بورسیه پیشرفت هنری فلوریدا است. همچنین منتخب اقامت های هنری متعددی نظیر مرکز همبیج در رابون گپ جورجیا، بنیاد هلن ورلیتزر در نیومکزیکو، هنرمندان کاریزوزو در برنامه های اقامت هنری در کاریزوزو، ان. ام.، برنامه اقامت هنری جانتل در بنر، ویومینگ و برنامه نقاشی تابستانه مدرسه هنرهای بصری نیویورک بوده است.
سينتيا هم اکنون در سنت پطرزبورگ، فلوریدا، کار و زندگی می کند.

#Prosopography
#baashgaahartgallery

#1: @_jasonlazarus_
#2: Skyway 20/21: Courtesy of USF Contemporary Art Museum; Photo by Will Lytch.

Posted @withregram • @fredfleisher More work i

Posted @withregram • @fredfleisher

More work in Imagined Futures here at @swale_house Swale House on Governors Island! Work from left to right: Mary Mattingly, Zoe Reid (video and small sculpture) and Cynthia Mason. @marymattingly _zztop_ @cynthiamasonvisualart
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I will be posting more artist’s works throughout the show (including my own install for it).

#marymattingly #zoereid #cynthiamasonvisualart #governorsisland #swalehouse #imaginedfuturesexhibition #imaginedfutures #fredfleishercuratorialprojects #sunyoldwestburyvisualartsdepartment #artexhibition

So honored to participate in Imagined Futures cura

So honored to participate in Imagined Futures curated by @fredfleisher @swale_house 🌼✨☀️Thank you Fred for putting together such a thoughtful and beautiful show.

⚡️⚡️⚡️The second installment of Imagined Futures is here! The exhibition is at Swale House @swale_house
Nolan Park #11 on Governors Island
on view May 5 -22 with an artist’s reception Sunday, May 15, 12 - 5pm!

Viewing is Thursday - Sunday 12 - 5pm throughout the show. Thanks to Swale House for hosting this exhibition!
Please check Governors Island Ferry schedule and ticketing depending on where you would depart from to get there. DM me for any questions or details. I’ll post installation images throughout the coming weeks.
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Imagined Futures, curated by Fred Fleisher
(initially conceived in collaboration with Kim Darling)
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Mark Andrew, Kevin Bright, Kim Darling, Marguerite Day, Fred Fleisher, Josh Kil, Susan Knight, Eric Hagan, Patty Harris, Cynthia Mason, Mary Mattingly, Tricia McLaughlin, Eric Ondina, Zoe Reid, The G-77, Walter John Rodriguez
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Special thanks to SUNY College at Old Westbury @sunyoldwestbury for my Faculty Development Grant that helped to make this show possible.
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@markintheheart @thekevinbright @kimdahling @margueriteday @fredfleisher @pataphaxitas @susan_r._knight @finallyeric @patty.harris.5661 @cynthiamasonvisualart @marymattingly @tricia_mclau @eric.ondina _zztop_ @walterjohnrodriguez @davidbsmith_
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Imagine design conceived by Anthony Wyant and adapted by Marguerite Day.
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#imaginedfutures #fredfleishercuratorialprojects #sunyoldwestbury #sunyoldwestburyvisualartsdepartment #markandrew #kevinbright #kimdarling #margueriteday #fredfleisher #fredfleisherartist #joshkil #susanknight #erichagan #pattyharris #cynthiamason #marymattingly #triciamclaughlin #ericondina #zoereid #walterjohnrodriguez #davidbsmith #artexhibit #exhibition #stayingwiththetrouble #artexhibition #art #swalehouse #governorsisland #theg77artcollective

It’s more likely than not that matriarchies rule

It’s more likely than not that matriarchies ruled in prehistoric times.

Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük
Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
Ankara, Turkey
c. 6000 BC

Super excited about the new soft altar I am workin

Super excited about the new soft altar I am working on 🌱will eventually hang 11 ft high with a 3 ft drape into the floor 🐍🌙🐍

So excited to have work in IMAGINED FUTURES 👁de

So excited to have work in IMAGINED FUTURES 👁details below 👁THANK YOU @fredfleisher 👀for putting together such a thoughtful exhibition ⚡️
Posted @withregram • @fredfleisher Hey! I am thrilled to announce the second installment of Imagined Futures! The exhibition will be held at Swale House @swale_house on Governors Island from May 5 -25 with an artist’s reception Sunday, May 15, 12 - 5pm! Viewing is Thursday - Sunday 12 - 5pm throughout the show. Thanks to Swale House for hosting this exhibition!
Please check Governors Island Ferry schedule and ticketing depending on where you would depart from to get there. DM me for any questions or details.
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Imagined Futures, curated by Fred Fleisher
(initially conceived in collaboration with Kim Darling)
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Mark Andrew, Kevin Bright, Kim Darling, Marguerite Day, Fred Fleisher, Josh Kil, Susan Knight, Eric Hagan, Patty Harris, Cynthia Mason, Mary Mattingly, Tricia McLaughlin, Eric Ondina, Zoe Reid, The G-77, Walter John Rodriguez
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Special thanks to SUNY College at Old Westbury @sunyoldwestbury for my Faculty Development Grant that helped to make this show possible.
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@markintheheart @thekevinbright @kimdahling @margueriteday @fredfleisher @pataphaxitas @susan_r._knight @finallyeric @patty.harris.5661 @cynthiamasonvisualart @marymattingly @tricia_mclau @eric.ondina _zztop_ @walterjohnrodriguez
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Imagine design conceived by Anthony Wyant and adapted by Marguerite Day.
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#imaginedfutures #fredfleishercuratorialprojects #sunyoldwestbury #sunyoldwestburyvisualartsdepartment #markandrew #kevinbright #kimdarling #margueriteday #fredfleisher #fredfleisherartist #joshkil #susanknight #erichagan #pattyharris #cynthiamason #marymattingly #triciamclaughlin #ericondina #zoereid #walterjohnrodriguez #artexhibit #exhibition #kunst #stayingwiththetrouble #artexhibition #art #swalehouse #governorsisland

My front yard in Florida, excited for my new littl

My front yard in Florida, excited for my new little landscape paintings coming soon
✨🌕🌼🐛 👀🦜🐍

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