Art in the Café • Cyndy Sperry

 

Art in the Café:
Artwork by Cyndy Sperry

Cyndy Sperry enjoys working from historical paintings. She finds spaces and figures and movements in the original work and then, through media and compositional rearrangements, transforms the pieces into original creations. In this exhibit, the artist explores 19th century painter Edward Hicks' Peaceable Kingdom series as well as his George Washington Battle of Trenton paintings. Connecting these pieces to the continuum of her last decade of work is a shared love of horses and the spaces they fill, both with and without riders.

Cyndy Sperry works in the hills and forests of Chesterfield, MA, and has been a member of the Oxbow Gallery cooperative in Easthampton for 20 years. She has also participated in the Hilltown Open Studio Tour for the last five years.

Washington Crossing the Delaware was a virtual collaboration during COVID. Together with friend and fellow artist Joanna Dunn, Sperry would “annotate” on top of famous paintings using the Zoom toolbox. Some of their digital collaborations were also realized as two-dimensional pieces. The source for this piece is a painting from Emmanuel Leutze hanging at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC. The original is 21 × 12 feet.