Cindy Tower American

Works
  • Cindy Tower, Passage, 2009
    Passage, 2009
  • Cindy Tower, Sun, 2019
    Sun, 2019
  • Cindy Tower, Double D, 2019
    Double D, 2019
  • Cindy Tower, Darien, 2019
    Darien, 2019
  • Cindy Tower, Crescent, 2019
    Crescent, 2019
  • Cindy Tower, Curtain Rise, 2019
    Curtain Rise, 2019
  • Cindy Tower, Maiden Form, 2019
    Maiden Form, 2019
  • Cindy Tower, '20 Fiddler Crab Holes, 2020
    '20 Fiddler Crab Holes, 2020
  • Cindy Tower, Pine Orchid Orange View, 2020
    Pine Orchid Orange View, 2020
  • Cindy Tower, Cloak of Moon and Stars, 2020
    Cloak of Moon and Stars, 2020
  • Cindy Tower, Beaver Moon, 2020
    Beaver Moon, 2020
  • Cindy Tower, Crescent Visor, 2020
    Crescent Visor, 2020
  • Cindy Tower, Corset Sunset, 2020
    Corset Sunset, 2020
  • Cindy Tower, Fall in Spring, 2020
    Fall in Spring, 2020
  • Cindy Tower, Driveway, 2020
    Driveway, 2020
  • Cindy Tower, Glimmer, 2020
    Glimmer, 2020
  • Cindy Tower, Mapel, 2021
    Mapel, 2021
  • Cindy Tower, Ensor Ghoul with Covid, 2021
    Ensor Ghoul with Covid, 2021
  • Cindy Tower, Joy and Sorrow (for Jocelyn), 2021
    Joy and Sorrow (for Jocelyn), 2021
  • Cindy Tower, Paper, Scissor, Rock, 2021
    Paper, Scissor, Rock, 2021
  • Cindy Tower, Fall in Spring, 2021
    Fall in Spring, 2021
  • Cindy Tower, Harbor View, 2021
    Harbor View, 2021
  • Cindy Tower, West Crib Full Moon, 2021
    West Crib Full Moon, 2021
  • Cindy Tower, Sunset over Bathrobe, 2021
    Sunset over Bathrobe, 2021
  • Cindy Tower, Saturn, 2021
    Saturn, 2021
  • Cindy Tower, Sunset over ZuWalicks, 2021
    Sunset over ZuWalicks, 2021
  • Cindy Tower, My Father's Pant-legs, 2021
    My Father's Pant-legs, 2021
  • Cindy Tower, Pink Bra, 2021
    Pink Bra, 2021
  • Cindy Tower, Cherry, 2022
    Cherry, 2022
  • Cindy Tower, Plane View, 2022
    Plane View, 2022
  • Cindy Tower, Green Spot, 2022
    Green Spot, 2022
Overview

Cindy Tower is a painter, sculptor, video and performance artist who lets her creative background shine through in her practices. Tower’s “Combine” paintings break divisions between the materials of artmaking and ordinary things like old dresses; between painting and sculpture; and between the fields of art and daily life. Their themes traditionally have had an environmental perspective on consumption, intimacy, obsolescence, loss, and transcendence as they interplay with the natural world. They are landscape-based, often biographical, with elements in the paintings standing in for herself, family members, or moments or places in her life.

Her paintings are an overwhelming celebration of materials and process. They hope to provide the viewer with a visceral, physical experience that not only engages but also actually engulfs the viewer in the self-contained environment of each work of art. Tower’s views are optimistic in that they create beauty despite being formed out of the rejected detritus of modern consumer society. Tower provides social commentary on collective wastefulness and over-abundance.

Born in Alamogordo, New Mexico, Cindy Tower received her B.F.A. from Cornell and was a forerunner of the Williamsburg art scene in the early eighties. She went on to obtain her MFA in 1988 from the University of California, San Diego, where she studied under Eleanor Antin and Allan Kaprow. Her work has been reviewed in national publications, including Art in America and The New York Times. Cindy currently splits her time between maintaining a studio in Branford, CT and in San Antonio, TX.

Tower has exhibited nationally and has been the focus of numerous one-person exhibitions including the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Mykonos Biennale in Greece. Tower is a social activist who also uses her artistic skill in support of racial, gender and housing equality, animal rights and awareness of climate issues.

Exhibitions