Cyndy Barbone
Cyndy Barbone
“A rose is a rose is a rose” (Gertrude Stein), 2020
Woven cotton and embroidery
88 x 79.5 inches
(5 individual panels hung together)
NFS
"This spring, as COVID-19 fatalities in New York rose in unfathomable numbers, I wanted to commemorate those lost to the pandemic and also comment on what the number 32,350 (the death toll in New York state when I started) looks like in visual form. This is a bar graph of sorts: each length of fabric contains a count of woven roses based on New York state fatality rates. For March, when the first deaths were reported, the woven roses are large. I document half of the month on one length of fabric. As daily deaths increase, the roses become progressively smaller, and less days are able to fit on each panel."
Cyndy Barbone is an artist based in Greenwich, New York, where she lives and maintains a studio. Working primarily on the handloom, she creates figurative work, inscribing her woven textiles with images that are personal yet have cultural or political references. For her, weaving has been a metaphor for the creation of something other than just cloth, whether a moment or a narrative.
Her work was recently featured in the VIII International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art WTA in Madrid in 2019. Awards include the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Crafts, which she received twice. Cyndy has an MFA from California College of the Arts and was a guest instructor at Penland School of Craft in October 2019. She was an adjunct instructor at North Country Community College until her position was eliminated in July 2020 due to the Covid-19 financial crisis.
Her work was recently featured in the VIII International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art WTA in Madrid in 2019. Awards include the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Crafts, which she received twice. Cyndy has an MFA from California College of the Arts and was a guest instructor at Penland School of Craft in October 2019. She was an adjunct instructor at North Country Community College until her position was eliminated in July 2020 due to the Covid-19 financial crisis.