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Peggy Cyphers
Peggy Cyphers (born 1954) is an American painter, printmaker, professor, curator, and art writer. Cyphers was a formative figure in the East Village art scene during the 1980s, and has had her work exhibited in the United States and Europe since then.
Cyphers grew up in Baltimore and Chesapeake Beach, Maryland and has been inspired by the Miocene fossil deposits, Calvert Cliffs and aquatic life of the Bay since childhood.[citation needed] She received her BFA from Towson University and also attended the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Upon moving to New York in 1977, she studied painting at the Pratt Institute and received an MFA with a Ford Foundation Award. Cyphers became a part of the East Village art scene in the 1980s, and exhibited her first major series of work “Modern Fossils.”
Cyphers is a tenured adjunct professor of painting at the Pratt Institute. At Pratt, her former students include Mickalene Thomas. Cyphers mentored Thomas and encouraged her to apply to graduate school at Yale University. She has also taught at New York University; Parsons; University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Royal Academy of Art Helsinki; Lahti Polytechnic Institute, Lahti, Finland; School of Visual Arts; and New York School of Interior Design. She has taught in the Pratt in Venice and Tuscany Programs.
Since 1988, Cyphers’ critical writings have appeared in such publications as Painters on Paintings, Art Journal, Arts Magazine, Tema Celeste, A Gathering of the Tribes, New Observations, Cover, The Thing.net, and Resolve40, as well as catalog essays for museums and galleries.
Cyphers has been a resident artist at Tong Xian Art Residency, Beijing, Santa Fe Art Institute, International Studio Program NYC, ArtOmi, Yaddo and Triangle Artists Workshop.
In addition to showing her own art, Cyphers has curated exhibitions at Exit Art, Solo Impressions, and Creon, among other venues.[citation needed]
Roberta Smith writing in The New York Times, said that Cyphers paints "in an effortless style that corrupts and complicates the staining technique originated by Color Field painters like Helen Frankenthaler with various ideas in the air: notational, pattern-prone motifs, landscape references and allusions to textiles and fabric. The plants are still here, but now they are usually soft blooms and plumes of color that also suggest, with a little help from the titles, wet pavement, blurry stop lights or even the Brooklyn Bridge."
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Peggy Cyphers
Peggy Cyphers (born 1954) is an American painter, printmaker, professor, curator, and art writer. Cyphers was a formative figure in the East Village art scene during the 1980s, and has had her work exhibited in the United States and Europe since then.
Cyphers grew up in Baltimore and Chesapeake Beach, Maryland and has been inspired by the Miocene fossil deposits, Calvert Cliffs and aquatic life of the Bay since childhood.[citation needed] She received her BFA from Towson University and also attended the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Upon moving to New York in 1977, she studied painting at the Pratt Institute and received an MFA with a Ford Foundation Award. Cyphers became a part of the East Village art scene in the 1980s, and exhibited her first major series of work “Modern Fossils.”
Cyphers is a tenured adjunct professor of painting at the Pratt Institute. At Pratt, her former students include Mickalene Thomas. Cyphers mentored Thomas and encouraged her to apply to graduate school at Yale University. She has also taught at New York University; Parsons; University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Royal Academy of Art Helsinki; Lahti Polytechnic Institute, Lahti, Finland; School of Visual Arts; and New York School of Interior Design. She has taught in the Pratt in Venice and Tuscany Programs.
Since 1988, Cyphers’ critical writings have appeared in such publications as Painters on Paintings, Art Journal, Arts Magazine, Tema Celeste, A Gathering of the Tribes, New Observations, Cover, The Thing.net, and Resolve40, as well as catalog essays for museums and galleries.
Cyphers has been a resident artist at Tong Xian Art Residency, Beijing, Santa Fe Art Institute, International Studio Program NYC, ArtOmi, Yaddo and Triangle Artists Workshop.
In addition to showing her own art, Cyphers has curated exhibitions at Exit Art, Solo Impressions, and Creon, among other venues.[citation needed]
Roberta Smith writing in The New York Times, said that Cyphers paints "in an effortless style that corrupts and complicates the staining technique originated by Color Field painters like Helen Frankenthaler with various ideas in the air: notational, pattern-prone motifs, landscape references and allusions to textiles and fabric. The plants are still here, but now they are usually soft blooms and plumes of color that also suggest, with a little help from the titles, wet pavement, blurry stop lights or even the Brooklyn Bridge."