Cynthia Huff of Taos, New Mexico has a diverse and dynamic artistic background.  After nearly twenty years of successfully working in ceramics and sculpture she began her current focus on painting, collage and 2-dimensional work in the early 1990's.  She has been awarded individual artist grants from the states of Tennessee and New Jersey and her work has been exhibited in galleries nationally and internationally.

2006-2008  Huff's paintings convey a personal language that incorporates spontaneous and expressionistic techniques and experimental processes.  She embraces a rawness in her rendering and frequently juxtaposes symbolic motifs and historic references.  Subject matter is typically transformed into visual signs, symbolic allusions, ironic associations and metaphors that link and suggest.  Her most recent work reflects the open spaces and quiet.

2005  These  paintings had a humorous bent and incorporated ideas of the food chain, the animals involved in this chain and luck.  Using the process of random selection, images were gathered and filtered; ideas accepted or rejected and used as interpretive tools.  Random selection has been used in the past to foretell the future and is the basis for what some call intuition.  Huff intuitively chose symbols and images that suggested luck, fortune telling and patterns of divination.  

2002-2004  This series of paintings were influenced by whimsical late 19th century Italian sculpture called chalkware and turn of the century children’s nursery rhymes.  These paintings represented tasteless knick-knacks to some and sweet memories to others.

1990's  Early paintings included symbols and inspiration from her travels in Mali, Senegal, France, Italy, Belgium and Holland.  Many were religious in nature as well as lyrical and narrative.  Changes in palette and subject were influenced by architecture and religious imagery.

EDUCATION  BFA from Herron School Art, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana

MFA from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Art Ability Gallery, Dallas, TX

Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME

River Run Gallery, Lambertville, NJ

RiverBank Gallery, Stockton, NJ