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Provincetown, MA 02657
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The Packard Gallery
A Family Tradition
About Cynthia

Cynthia Packard is a continuation of an artistic lineage.  Her great grandfather, Max Bohm, was a respected turn of the century Impressionist painter, and her mother, Anne Packard, is a widely collected landscape artist.

Born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and raised in Princeton, New Jersey, Packard came to Provincetown in 1980 after graduating with an honors degree in sculpture from Mass College of Art.  Upon her return she studied with the late Fritz Bultman, began to paint and found herself addicted to color, brushwork and the human form.  Her sculptor's and the interplay between her figures and the spaces that surround them.  A gifted colorist, she paints exceptional figures, children and still life's. Recently her work has exploded reaching new levels.  By applying tar, wax , shellac and plaster, she is creating a dramatic surface with the subject matter becoming more abstract.
Cynthia is the mother of four children, Zach, Caleb, Silas and Emma - all often the subjects of her paintings.

 

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Selected Reviews

"The works, at first glance seem calm.  But all illusions of tranquility dissolve when examining Packard's surfaces.  Here, troubled zones of color form a rolling patchwork that conceals, like a heavy autumn sea, the shape and weight of unseen mysteries and anguish.  The artist's tensions, her fury and her uncertainties, are palpable." - Ken Shulman, Arts & Antiques

 Selected Shows

2007 - Gallery Sono, South Norwalk, CT

2006 - Cape Cod Museum of Fine Art (retrospective)

2006 to present - Camino Royal,  Boca Raton, FL

1998 to 2005 - Bennett Gallery, Atlanta

1993 to present - Chase Gallery, Boston

1990 - Marlborough Gallery, Boston

1989 - Fontene Demoulis Fine Art, Boston

1988 - The Blue Mountain Gallery, New York

1987 - Zoe Gallery, Boston

1987 - Jack Gallery, New York

1986 to Present - Packard Gallery, Provincetown

1985 to 1986 - Denis DeBerry Gallery, Provincetown

1984 - West End Gallery, Provincetown

1983 - East End Gallery, Provincetown


Selected Collections

Biogen, Inc. , Cambridge

Cabot & Co. , Boston

Reggie Cabral

Clatouit Corporation , Miami

The Colony , Sarasota, FL

Hale & Dorr , Boston

Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Inc. , Boston

Kasey Kaufman

Norman Mailer

Red Cross Connecticut

Mr. & Mrs. Eric Sevareid

Barry Stein, Rosabeth Kanter

Bob Vila

Jose Quintero

Over 200 private collections throughout the US, Canada, and Europe.