ARTIST STATEMENT
I have long thought about my work as an exploration of emotional landscape. What I have come to know is that it is an exploration of coming home.
Working with organic materials, I am unraveling layers of time and consciousness. My hope is to touch those places within each of us which hold our deepest memories, known to us only through our bodies. The work reflects my interest in who we are within a larger natural world, and how the generative power of nature becomes a source of our creativity when sparked by our own inner fire.
The materials I use are chosen intentionally for their inherent qualities and for their symbolism. Part of the power and beauty of the work is in its transitory essence, the anticipation of its eventual disintegration. Each piece holds within its materiality the shared journey of all life: the seeds of birth, death and regeneration. The work, then, becomes both a metaphor for life and an intersection into our own path. Its energy lies in its rawness and ultimate impermanence.
BIO/RESUME
Cindy Cleary is an artist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area. The collaborative nature of her art practices grew out of her MFA work in the Department of Arts and Consciousness at JFK University, Berkeley, CA. The deep artistic friendships developed there continue to support and move forward her vision of weaving together the wisdom of inner realms and the paths we walk in the world.
For several years she collaborated with artist, healer and JFK graduate Pam Bolton. Together they worked with foraged materials, stones, paper and clay - and with the spirit and energy held in the elemental forces of nature – to create site-specific sculpture and interactive installations in a variety of venues.
Cindy's work has been shown at Lucid Art Foundation (Inverness), Gallery Route One (Point Reyes Station), Sonoma County Museum (Santa Rosa), The Lab (San Francisco), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), SOMARTS (San Francisco), Other Side Arts (Denver), Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Los Medanos Gallery (Pittsburg, CA), Institute of Noetic Science (Petaluma), and O’Hanlon Gallery (Mill Valley).
A complete resume is available upon request.
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