Cynthia Daignault
Cynthia Daignault | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1978 (age 45–46) Baltimore, Maryland |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Stanford University |
Cynthia Daignault (born 1978) is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn. Her work is often described as rigorous and intense.[1][2] Daignault is also a writer[3] and musician[4] and curator.[5]
Biography
Daignault was born and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland.[6][7] She attended Stanford University and graduated with distinctions and honors and a BA.[7] Instead of pursuing an MFA, as many modern American painters often do, Daignault chose to work with established artists, including Kara Walker,[8] in more traditional models of mentorship.[1]
Daignault has a reverence for the tradition of painting, yet her work speaks to a sense of the modern, according to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.[9] Her process of painting relies less on exact visual realism, than on ideas and feelings.[1] Daignault works with light and time and strives towards a sense of the universal. She feels that painted objects are like "concrete word poetry"[1] and she has been called "a poet of a painter" by the New Yorker.[10] Often, her works exist in the divide between abstraction and figuration.[11]
Daignault's paintings are often installed in series. The work, I love you more than one more day (2013) consists of 365 small oil canvases.[12] This piece was described as lyrical and existing on the "verge of transcendence."[13]
Daignault took a few years to paint alone in the woods.[14] She has said that the experience strengthened her resolve as an artist and that painting is her "life's practice."[1] Daignault is also a published art writer and editor, including the monograph "Improbable History" about painter Sean Landers published by JRP|Ringier in the Fall of 2011,[15] and the founder and editor of the publication A-Z.[16]
Awards
- Rema Hort Mann Foundation (2011)
- MacDowell Colony Fellow (2010)
- White Columns Curated Artist Registry (2009)
References
- ^ a b c d e Valli, Marc; Dessanay, Margherita (2014). A Brush with the Real: Figurative Painting Today. London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd. pp. 5, 142–147. ISBN 9781780672830.
- ^ Spence, Rachel (11 October 2012). "Taste for the Anti-Frieze". Financial Times. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ Ha, Paul, Cynthia Daignault and Michelle Reyes Landers, eds. Sean Landers: 1990–1995, Improbable History. Zürich: JRP|Ringier Kunstverlag AG, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2011.
- ^ Johnson, Ken. "An Ode to a Borough's Creativity". NYTimes.com. New York Times.
- ^ Istomina, Tatiana (26 July 2014). "Eric's Trip at Lisa Cooley's Gallery". Arte Fuse Magazine. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ "Artist of the Week: Cynthia Daignault". LVL3 Media. 6 February 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ a b "Cynthia Daignault". Lisa Cooley Gallery. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ Rosenberg, Karen (14 June 2014). "The Antidote to Sweet".
- ^ "Cynthia Daignault". Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. 18 March 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ "Goings on About Town" (PDF). The New Yorker: 8. 20 September 2013.
- ^ Wilson, Michael (21 September 2011). "White Columns". Artforum International. 50 (2): 317. ISSN 1086-7058. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ Yerman, Marcia (31 October 2014). "Crossing Brooklyn: Art From Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond". Huffington Post. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ Halle, Howard (9 September 2013). "Time Out New York" (PDF). The New Yorker. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ Donnelly, Kate. "From Your Desks". From Your Desks. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
- ^ Ha, Paul, Cynthia Daignault and Michelle Reyes Landers, eds. Sean Landers: 1990–1995, Improbable History. Zürich: JRP|Ringier Kunstverlag AG, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2011. ISBN 9783037641781
- ^ Daignault, Cynthia. "A-Z". A-Z. Retrieved 2015.
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