| Cynthia Ona Innis | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Cynthia Ona Innis |
| Born | 1969 San Diego, California, U.S.A. |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Painting |
| Training | M.F.A. Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University (1994), B.A., University of California at Berkeley (1991) |
| Awards | 2006 SF Arts Commission Gallery Honorarium and Exhibition, James D. Phelan Award in Printmaking, MacDowell Colony Fellowship and Residency, Kala Fellowship Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA., James D. Phelan Award in Painting, UC Berkeley, CA (1991) |
Cynthia Ona Innis (born 1969) and raised in San Diego, California is an American painter, sculptor and visual artist based out of Oakland, California.[1] Her work has been called, "sensual," "organic" and "science fiction-y" where, "a futuristic heaven-meets-hell."[2] Innis graduated with a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and earned her post-graduate M.F.A. from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She has received the San Francisco Arts Commission Honorarium, the James D. Phelan Award in printmaking, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and Residency award, and the James D. Phelan Award in painting, among other awards and recognition.[3]
The Los Angeles Times' Holly Myers describes Innis' work: "Mesh pods hover languidly, swaying in currents of blue, lavender and pink, or else shoot across the canvas with predatory propulsion, trailing clouds of black, rust red or brown, while lozenge-shaped fragments of cut fabric (largely satin and fake fur) gather in loose clouds. The pigment is thin and watery in some places, saturating the ground (whether canvas or stretched satin) and blurring sensually into other shades."[1]
Innis has been a visiting art professor and/or faculty member at several prominent universities and arts institutes. Among the institutions where Innis has taught, are the University of California at Berkeley, the San Francisco Art Institute and Boise State University in Boise, Idaho.[4]
Cynthia Ona Innis' work is represented by the Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles.[1] Her works are in the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, the Imagery Estate Winery Artists Collection, Glen Ellen, CA and the Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA.
Innis is the daughter of architect Donald Innis and his wife, teacher and well-known floral designer, Virginia. Cynthia Ona Innis is married to Executive Chef Sascha Weiss (The Plant Cafe Organic, San Francisco).[5] Weiss has worked as Executive Pastry Chef at the famous Millennium restaurant in San Francisco and co-wrote the restaurant’s first cookbook. Weiss has also been a private Chef for filmmaker George Lucas. Innis recently gave birth to her first daughter Ona and resides in the Bay Area. Cynthia Ona Innis' sister is film editor, Chris Innis.[6]