cynda valle – tragic tale of augusta bitner

Description

Artist Statement

I’ve dedicated my life to painting; I’ve been doing it daily for over 45 years.
I feel compelled to paint and hope to continue for as many years as I am given to live. It feels as necessary as food and sleep. It has become my reason for living. In my paintings the most ordinary moments of my most ordinary life become infused with undercurrents of poetry, romance and surrealism. I feel like this “magical” world coexists with the concrete one and access to it is a matter of simply changing my
perspective. My painting has taught me this different way of “seeing “and I hope it will also suggest to the viewer the wonder of this vision as it applies to their own life and experience. There is a technical craft to painting that has taken me years to acquire; I feel like I’m never done learning and perfecting it. I happily
embrace this life long process.

Artist Biography

Cynda Valle has been painting daily for over 40 years. She emerged onto the art scene in Los Angeles in 1980, living and working from her downtown studio. After a stint of child rearing in rural norcal she returned to LA and lives/works at the Los Angeles artists brewery. She is represented by Art on 5th, Austin,TX. She has an extensive national exhibition record including; Manhattan Beach art center, SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery, Grace Hudson Museum (Ukiah, CA), Long Beach Museum of Art, The Lobby at The United Nations, Armory Arts Center (West Palm Beach , FL), Riverside Art Museum, Couturier Gallery (Los Angeles), Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery (Los Angeles), LeBand Art Gallery (Loyola Marymount Univ.)and
the Cultural Arts Center (Las Vegas, NV), to name a few. Cynda Valle’s work has been reviegazine, ARTnews Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Artweek , as well as numerous exhibition catalogues.