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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Cydnie King
Curatorial Assistant The Contemporary DaytonBio
Cydnie L. King was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri to a family of artists. After graduating from Webster University in 2012 with a BA in Studio Art, she moved to Fairborn, Ohio in 2014 where she currently lives with her husband, son, daughter and dog.
Cydnie presently works for The Contemporary Dayton (The CO) as their Curatorial Assistant. She has been part of several exhibitions in Ohio and Missouri including the prestigious St. Louis Art Fair and solo exhibitions at the Terry Lynn Studio and Gallery in Fairborn, The Betty at Front Street and the African American Visual Artists Guild (AAVAG) in Dayton. Her main body of work explores the connection between humanity and nature by using bright vivid colors to portray androgynous figures and technological circuits physically attached to botanicals. King works with inks, pastels, color pencils and charcoals because she likes the fluidity of each medium together and the saturation of colors that help emphasize the power of the images she creates. King believes that her drawings help serve as a constant reminder that nature is still a strong part of our lives and always will be, no matter how much we may try to sever this bond.
Artist Statement
“We as humans are part of nature and nature will never leave us, no matter how much we may try to separate ourselves from it. We are always drawn back to it in some form. In my main body of work, I use androgynous figures and electronic components from circuit boards to stand for humanity as a whole while I put them together with leaves to best illustrate their similarities. I focus on the veins of leaves and flowers to compare them to our veins and sometimes show them deteriorating to emphasize my point of this special connection growing weaker, but still remains.”
Visit Cydnie’s website http://www.cydniedeedking.com, or follow her Instagram @cydnie_ld_king.
