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Cynthia Nixon is an American artist best known for her mixed-media work. Born in Rochester, New York, she received a B.A. from Dickinson College and an M.Ed. from the Pennsylvania State University School of Visual Arts, where she was taught by Linda Plotkin and Stuart Frost, a student of Ben Shahn. Her studio is located in central Pennsylvania. Cynthia Nixon’s work expresses an interest in the symbolic associations in realist paintings through centuries of Western art from the Northern Renaissance through the traditions of American Realism. This interest prompted the artist, in mid-career, to take a master class at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia with the American painter Bo Bartlett, a protégé of Andrew Wyeth. In her work, Cynthia Nixon has consistently created luminous surfaces with detailed painting, augmented with gold leaf and metallics. Her themes range from the intensely personal to the universal. Crash Quilt was created after her back was fractured in an automobile accident. Lost Souls evolved as a memorial to the September 11th World Trade Center destruction. Transcendence was commissioned as the backdrop for Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s invocation en route to acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. Cynthia Nixon is represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Her work has been exhibited widely and is included in over one hundred public and private collections in the United States, Europe and Japan.