About

Cynthia Camlin's recent paintings are inspired by unique wetlands in the coastal Southeast, oval-shaped Sphagnum bogs, shallow lakes and longleaf pine savannas that once numbered in the thousands. This work is an outgrowth of Swamp/Garden, a series that addresses the entanglement of social and ecological history. Through abstracted forms and metaphor in paintings, drawings and installations, Camlin's work has reckoned with climate change for two decades, with imagery from dying coral reefs that recall a brain encrusted with plaque to dividing and cracking grid structures that resemble the collapse of both ice sheets and architecture. Camlin received a BA at Duke University, an MA at the University of Virginia and an MFA in 2000 at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor at Western Washington University, Camlin teaches Painting and Drawing and two interdisciplinary courses, Art and Ecology and the international course Figure and Symbol.

Contact: cynthiacamlin@gmail.com