Cindy Marie Pawelski

medium: photography

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France Remembers 2003 Photography	Lumiere: Eiffel Tower 1991 Photography	Petit Zinc: Paris 1991 Photography
Jardin de la Source: Nimes, France 2004 Photography	Milwaukee Riverwalk 2000 Photography	Electric Company Building, Milwaukee 2003 Photography
Blue Light (Self-Portrait) 1995 Photography	Lake in Blue 2000 Photography	Trois Femmes 2000 Photography
Madres 2004 Photography

Contact information
1830 N. Oakland Ave. #9
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Email Address: cindyesprit@yahoo.com
Web site: pantherfile.uwm.edu/cindymp3/www/

Artist statement
With an education in fine art, photography, digital arts and French studies, Cindy's work is synthesis of these disciplines. Her first artistic efforts were watercolor paintings. She appreciated the lightness and economy of the technique, although she did not always work in the usual wash manner, but often used a fine brush to work in precise detail. Most of her work at that time was influenced by surrealist artists and by her spiritual ideas.

After graduating with a degree in photography from Milwaukee Area Technical College, Cindy worked doing photo restoration: airbrushing away cracks, etc. on copy photos of very old, damaged photos. Along with photo retouching and restoration, at that time Cindy also learned the art of hand-coloring black and white photos that are archival, which will maintain their color and not fade as do conventional color prints. Now she uses this technique to convey a sense of sentimentality to certain photos. The focus of her art these days on the following subjects: Milwaukee, Lake Michigan, France and Women/Girls.

Currently Pawelski works part time as Outreach Coordinator for a Holocaust restitution taskforce using her French speaking skills to outreach to Holocaust survivors in French and English speaking countries. She also volunteers her time and creative skills for many activist and nonprofit groups in the Milwaukee area.

Biography
Exhibits and Awards:
2007 Solo photo exhibition, Hotel Intercontinental Art Gallery, Milwaukee, Wis.
2007 Exhibit of my MOODS OF LAKE MICHIGAN photo, Milwaukee Urban Ecology Center.
2004 Exhibit MILWAUKEE IN MY VIEW, Milwaukee County Historical Society, Milwaukee, Wis.
2001 Photo "Blue Lake" in EIGHT COUNTIES juried show, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wis.
2001 Photos on exhibit WISCONSIN PHOTOGRAPHERS, Charles Wustum Museum Racine, Wis.
2000 Part of FOUR FEMMES collaborative event of the works of four Milwaukee women artists, Miramar Theatre, Milwaukee.
1998 Photo "Trees In Rain" purchased by WISCONSIN ARTS BOARD for Art In Public Places.
1998 Self portrait "Blue Light' exhibited INTERNATIONAL SPIRITUAL ART COMPETITION, Fra Angelico Foundation, Chicago Ill.