Cynthia Camlin featured in New American Paintings

Above: Cynthia Camlin | Water Fragment, 1-10, ink, watercolor and vinyl polymer emulsion on paper panels, 12 inches x 9 inches each. Image courtesy of the artist.

I was thinking about humans going to extremes. My son was a teenager going to extremes at the time in Austin, Texas. The shootings by two middle schoolers in Arkansas had recently happened. I was also reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and about early Polar explorers. I found myself wanting to depict landscapes at the edges of the world that call to mind stories of extreme effort, self-induced hardship, and the drive towards knowledge or power that becomes unbalanced and obsessive. - Cynthia Camlin, Associate Professor

Read the full interview in New American Paintings.