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Cynthia Reynolds
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NYC sculptor and installation artist

Discarded packaging enthusiast

https://cynthiareynolds.art

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My work at @57w57arts.bsky.social - perfect light
A close up shot of a small brown honeycomb board sculpture with facings removed, formed into a circle and hung under tension between brass wall mounts A small brown honeycomb board sculpture with facings removed, formed into a circle and hung under tension between brass wall mounts. A sliver of window appears on the left side of the photo. A small brown honeycomb board sculpture with facings removed, formed into a circle and hung under tension between brass wall mounts. A stripe of light from the window is on the wall to the right of the piece. A translucent porcelain sculpture cast from air pillow packaging hanging on a white wall with light from the window making the left side glow
June 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Taking the two-piece sculpture that served as the fifth dancer in the ballet performance for CounterPointe 12 to her home in storage.
Found and altered honeycomb paperboard packaging sculpture in the loading dock of a self storage facility. It is backlit by the sun, which illuminates a brick building in the background, visible through the open garage door. Found and altered honeycomb paperboard packaging sculptures leaning on plastic bags of other works made of packaging for a ballet performance. They are sitting on a curb between a maroon car and a red car, both in the shade, with other cars viewable on the other side of the street, which is sunlit. Found and altered honeycomb board packaging sculpture on the sidewalk in the sun, casting a shadow. There is a car behind it at the curb and a pigeon walking toward it from the right. Two brown honeycomb board packaging sculptures leaning against the wall inside a self storage facility. There is gray carpet and the walls are white. Doors to storage units are red.
March 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Why not take a break from the horrors and come see ballet performances made by women artists and choreographers in Brooklyn March 7-9?

Friday is SOLD OUT but tickets are still available for two shows on Saturday and one on Sunday - info at the link

www.nortemaar.org/projects/cou...
A man wearing a black unitard and air pillow packaging stands in pointe shoes A black and white picture of a dancing figure on pointe with three arms and a stack of artworks in color
February 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Unfurled found paper packaging
Brown crimped paper packaging mounted on a white wall next to a window
February 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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www.nortemaar.org/projects/cou...

Come see my collaboration with choreographer Anna Antongiorgi 🩰

CounterPointe12:
new work by women choreographers and their collaborations with artists

Mar 7-9

The Mark O'Donnell Theater at The Entertainment Community Fund
Brooklyn, NY
A pink pointe shoe filled with bubble wrap and suspended by ribbons which are tied in a bow
February 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I took this picture on my block the other day. I love this little cardboard corner protector, just hanging out alone on this bench, waiting for another corner that needs to be protected.
A small cardboard corner protector sitting on a white bench with black graffiti scribbles. In the background is a street and on the other side of the street are an orange traffic cone and a white VW bug.
February 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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These are from “03.06.05 : Packing the Body, Packaging the Self,” a series of 14 cast boxes with packing peanuts.

Materials include porcelain, iron, beeswax, and carbon steel. The full installation is shown in the third photo.
A translucent white porcelain box with open flaps filled with cast metal packing peanuts that are visible through the side. The background is dark. A translucent yellow beeswax box with open flaps filled with rusted steel packing peanuts. The background is dark gray. A room full of thin upright gray pedestals on which are placed small box sculptures. The floor is wood.
January 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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These are from “03.06.05 : Packing the Body, Packaging the Self,” a series of 14 cast boxes with packing peanuts.

Materials include urethane foam, stainless steel, silk, wool felt, urethane rubber, lard, and iron.
A white foam cube that is lit from below and glowing yellow. A stainless steel packing peanut sits atop it. The background is dark gray. A spindly fibrous white box lit from below that is filled with blue gray wool felt packing peanuts A toast brown colored soft box with sagging flaps filled with glowing yellow shapes. It is lit from below. The background is black. A dark metal box with open flaps and a mound of yellowish foam protruding from the top. The background is dark.
January 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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These are from “03.06.05 : Packing the Body, Packaging the Self,” a series of 14 cast boxes with packing peanuts.

They are about 4 inches wide and the peanuts are cast from manufactured originals. Materials include blackened iron, glass, cotton, urethane rubber, stainless steel, and lard.
A black metal box with open flaps filled with glass packing peanuts A white lumpy cast cotton pulp box with blackened iron peanuts. It is lit from below and the bottom half is glowing. A stainless steel box with open flaps, filled with amber colored rubber packing peanuts. The background is dark. A melting cube of lard with flesh colored packing peanuts mixed in. It is lit from below and glows in orange and yellow. The background is black.
January 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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A blue felt cube with a center gap that is lit from within A rusted steel box with open flaps filled with packing peanuts made of beeswax A glass box filled with packing peanuts made of undyed silk An amber colored urethane box turned inside out and filled with translucent white porcelain peanuts. It is lit from below.
January 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Come see my collaboration with choreographer Anna Antongiorgi 🩰

CounterPointe12:
new work by women choreographers and their collaborations with artists

Mar 7-9

The Mark O'Donnell Theater at The Entertainment Community Fund
Brooklyn, NY

Tickets at www.tickettailor.com/events/norte...
January 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Yesterday, I moved my storage. It was not fun, but I got to briefly visit some of my porcelain "drawings" from 2018. These are a recto and verso pair, press molded in plaster molds of one-inch round air pillow packaging.

So long, Manhattan Mini Storage, which sadly sold out a few years ago.
a translucent panel of porcelain held up against a window with a metal grid. A hand holds the piece from the right side. a translucent panel of porcelain held up against a window with a metal grid and a parking lot in the background. A hand holds the piece from the right side. a translucent panel of porcelain in a window sill with a metal grid with buildings and blue sky in upper half. a translucent panel of porcelain held up against a window with a metal grid and a parking lot in the lower half, buildings and blue sky in upper half. A hand holds the piece from the right side.
January 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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video of "respire : verb (used without object) 1 - to inhale and exhale air for the purpose of maintaining life; breathe. 2 - to breathe freely again, after anxiety, trouble, etc."

found and altered packaging, breath
2020
January 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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respire : verb (used without object) 1 - to inhale and exhale air for the purpose of maintaining life; breathe. 2 - to breathe freely again, after anxiety, trouble, etc.

found packaging, breath
2020
A vertical group of transparent air pillow packaging hanging in front of a white wall over a wood floor A vertical group of transparent air pillow packaging hanging in front of a white wall over a wood floor
January 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Hits different today
The Statue of Liberty with water flowing in front
January 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Safe Place : foam tubes

I found these foam tubes in a big bag on Second Avenue in 2021. They were probably used to protect furniture legs because they were folded over at one end and taped. I opened them back up and stacked them in the window at my studio.
A triangular stack of white foam tubes in a window with one side higher than the other. The sun is glowing through the window.
January 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Weak Monuments
found and altered honeycomb paperboard packaging
Five brown hanging paper mesh sculptures made of peeled cardboard in a brightly lit room with windows
January 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Hi! I picked the thing in the first picture up off the sidewalk in NYC and turned it into the things in the second and third pictures by picking away all the extra bead foam to leave only a single layer.
A large panel of white foam with five hemispherical cavities on a sidewalk five white bowl-shaped sculptures made of foam on a wide white platform pedestal with a gray painted floor and a white radiator in the background four white bowl shapes in two stacks in the sun on a gray painted floor
January 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Me: Do you mind if I say a word? Widow: Please do Me: *clears throat: Plethora! Widow: Thank you. That means a lot.
July 5, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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Goslings yellow and fuzzy
May 2, 2024 at 3:13 AM