Cynthia Daignault

Cynthia Daignault
Born 1978 (age 36–37)
Baltimore, Maryland
Nationality American
Education Stanford University

Cynthia Daignault (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 in a more traditional model 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.[8] 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. [9] Often, her works exist in the divide between abstraction and figuration. [10]

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.[11] This piece was described as lyrical and existing on the "verge of transcendence."[12]

In 2015, an image from another painter Elisheva Biernoff was accidentally used in a press release for Daignault's postcard project (“The Mysterious Arrival of an Unusual Letter…").[13] Upon discovering the error, Daignault published a lengthy apology on her website, which presents an argument for renewed mindfulness in the use of digital image databases.[14]

Daignault took a few years to paint alone in the woods.[15] She has said that the experience strengthened her resolve as an artist and that painting is to be her "life's vocation."[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.[16]

Awards

Quotes

"One of the best things about being a painter is being on a continuum with a long, unbroken history of human production that stretches back thousands of years."[1]

"It has to be about everything or it’s about nothing." [17]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Valli, Marc; Dessanay, Margherita (2014). A Brush with the Real: Figurative Painting Today. London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd. pp. 5, 142–147. ISBN 9781780672830.
  2. ↑ Spence, Rachel (11 October 2012). "Taste for the Anti-Frieze". Financial Times. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Johnson, Ken. "An Ode to a Borough's Creativity". NYTimes.com. New York Times.
  5. ↑ Istomina, Tatiana (26 July 2014). "Eric's Trip at Lisa Cooley's Gallery". Arte Fuse Magazine. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Artist of the Week: Cynthia Daignault". LVL3 Media. 6 February 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Cynthia Daignault". Lisa Cooley Gallery. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Cynthia Daignault". Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. 18 March 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  9. ↑ "Goings on About Town". The New Yorker: 8. 20 September 2013.
  10. ↑ Wilson, Michael (21 September 2011). "White Columns". Artforum International 50 (2): 317. ISSN 1086-7058. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  11. ↑ Yerman, Marcia (31 October 2014). "Crossing Brooklyn: Art From Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond". Huffington Post. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  12. ↑ Halle, Howard (9 September 2013). "Time Out New York". The New Yorker. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  13. ↑ Boucher, Brian (10 March 2015). "Cynthia Daignault Feels Terrible for Stealing Elisheva Biernoff's Painting". Artnet News. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  14. ↑ Daignault, Cynthia. "Apology". Cynthia Daignault. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  15. ↑ Donnelly, Kate. "From Your Desks". From Your Desks. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
  16. ↑ 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
  17. ↑ Darwin, Liza (September 2013). "Artist in Residence". Nylon Magazine.

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