Cynthia Kerby

Insipid: A Tea-Teared Indulgence (2025)
mixed media installation: ceramic doll legs and hands, vintage teacups and saucers, resin, mica powder, string and paper
6 x 15 x 13 in.
NFS

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ARTIST STATEMENT

We’ve surrendered without consent. Unpalatable change is being served to us, this manipulated indulgence, offensive and insipid, hot as every sip of a lie. We are confined without access to basic needs, to autonomy, and lives without coercion. Acts of resistance must extract our principles from this toxic infusion. What’s in your teacup?

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Cynthia Kerby is a mixed-media visual artist, originally from Michigan with Métis Ojibwe/French/Canadian ancestry. Her work has been shown at numerous galleries and art centers, and appears in various literary collections, including RHINO Poetry and Hypertext Magazine. She has curated exhibitions at The Westchester Children’s Museum in New York and at Space 900 in Evanston, IL., where she practices her art. A recipient of a Ragdale Foundation Artist Residency, Cynthia earned her MFA in Visual Communication from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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