About the Artist
Cindy Rizza is an American painter who received her BFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Her iconic representations of familiar domestic subjects summon conflicting feelings of comfort and insecurity, shelter and confinement, and love and loss. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant, Second Prize at the 9th Annual Lore Degenstein National Figurative Drawing and Painting Competition at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA and the Best of Show Prize at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art Annual Juried National Exhibition, in Wausau, WI. Her work is represented at George Billis Gallery in New York, NY and Galerie Mokum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Cindy grew up in Massachusetts and Maine during her early years, and has remained in New England, now living and working in Southern New Hampshire.
About this collection: "Vanitas"
This new collection of still lifes offers a contemporary interpretation of the Dutch tradition of vanitas painting. Nostalgic textile patterns are paired with elements from the natural world, creating contrasts that evoke conflicting emotions—comfort and unease, shelter and confinement, love and loss. The juxtaposition of decorative, man-made objects with natural remains places the domestic and the wild on equal footing, suggesting that both share the same inevitable fate. These works draw parallels between the ephemeral comfort we seek in material objects and the cyclical rhythms of the natural world. By blurring the boundaries between nature and imitation, authenticity and artifice, the paintings explore how each mirrors the other, revealing a shared vulnerability to time, decay, and impermanence.
Medium: Oil on panel
Framed, ready to hang
Southern New Hampshire
About the Artist
Cindy Rizza is an American painter who received her BFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Her iconic representations of familiar domestic subjects summon conflicting feelings of comfort and insecurity, shelter and confinement, and love and loss. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant, Second Prize at the 9th Annual Lore Degenstein National Figurative Drawing and Painting Competition at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA and the Best of Show Prize at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art Annual Juried National Exhibition, in Wausau, WI. Her work is represented at George Billis Gallery in New York, NY and Galerie Mokum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Cindy grew up in Massachusetts and Maine during her early years, and has remained in New England, now living and working in Southern New Hampshire.
About this collection: "Vanitas"
This new collection of still lifes offers a contemporary interpretation of the Dutch tradition of vanitas painting. Nostalgic textile patterns are paired with elements from the natural world, creating contrasts that evoke conflicting emotions—comfort and unease, shelter and confinement, love and loss. The juxtaposition of decorative, man-made objects with natural remains places the domestic and the wild on equal footing, suggesting that both share the same inevitable fate. These works draw parallels between the ephemeral comfort we seek in material objects and the cyclical rhythms of the natural world. By blurring the boundaries between nature and imitation, authenticity and artifice, the paintings explore how each mirrors the other, revealing a shared vulnerability to time, decay, and impermanence.