Cindy Betzer Pharis

Cindy’s work is about connections that human beings make or don’t make through language, a gesture, a look, an expression, physical placement, cultural values, standards, emotions, and desires. Exploring how we communicate, accept, constrain, or reject these connections to form relationships is an evident theme throughout her work. Her art centers around the human figure, as it is often the vehicle which relays the connection. Portraits are a predominant part of her work as she is fascinated and challenged by the changes age, experience, the environment, lighting, background, and just a slight muscle movement can make. Her bodies of work are categorized similarly to how the artist lives her life: processes, portraits, and conceptual pieces, or experiences, relationships and connections to others, and her inner, more consuming ideas and reflections on how moral and spiritual gauges are created within social, historical, and instinctual contexts.