Cynthia Mailman
These pieces are all part of a larger group of work done in conjunction with and relating to my painting, God created for The Sister Chapel Project in 1979. These book pages are an artistic and fact based look into the origins of our concepts of God. In the past, and for 40,000 years, people saw and worshipped only female gods. Michelangelo clearly depicted God as a man. For most religions today man is master by divine right. Are we females equal? It is something we need to give thought to and not something we should “Shut Up” about.
Cynthia Mailman was born in Bronx, New York from immigrant parents. She is an American painter and educator. She became known for her landscape paintings done in cool colors describing space in an original way. She was one of the first to confront ecological dangers in her art. Mailman is an original member of SOHO20 Feminist Gallery and was a part of the woman’s art movement.
Mailman graduated from the High School of Industrial Arts, NYC, Pratt Institute and an has a MFA from Rutgers. She has had over 20 solo shows, and has been written about in major art publications and books including, “The New York Times” and “The Power of Feminist Art “ among others. Her art is in the permanent collections of; The New Jersey State Museum, The Akron Museum of Art, The Everson Museum and the permanently installed “Sister Chapel’ at Rowen University which has recently been featured in Harper’s Bazaar magazine.
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