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Cynthia
Samuelson
Biography
“My work has been a search
for a creative medium that would give me the greatest latitude to
explore design, color, texture, negative space and a wide range of
subjects,” says Cynthia Samuelson, explaining how she came to work in
the unconventional medium of painting on shaped paper maché. What she
set out to do was break two major restrictions of traditional painting,
the flat surface and the rectangle. She exploits the recycled newspapers
in the paper mache surface for pattern, color, gray times, line and even
text, but blends in realism for balance. “I counter this non-traditional
surface with painterly realism, to find my expression,” she says.
Samuelson attended
Carnegie-Mellon University, where she majored in fine arts, and then the
University of Wisconsin, where she earned her degree in fine art. She
also attended the New School in New York City and DeCordova Museum
School in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
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