SERIES WIP PROJECT - LARGE PAINTINGS While in graduate school at Yale, I was astonished by the University's glass slide collection revealing overhead views of Michelangelo's sculptures from the Medici Chapel. I was amazed to see how closely Michelangelo coils the figures within the stone; for example how the turn of a toe nudges perfectly into the corner of the marble block. Inspired by Michelangelo's strategy, the WIP PROJECT women appear within the rectangle of the canvas, using the space and edges to push against, to brace themselves, to pull away from and from which to launch themselves. WIP PROJECT - SMALL PAINTINGS While in graduate school at Yale, I was astonished by the University's glass slide collection revealing overhead views of Michelangelo's sculptures from the Medici Chapel. I was amazed to see how closely Michelangelo coils the figures within the stone; for example how the turn of a toe nudges perfectly into the corner of the marble block. Inspired by Michelangelo's strategy, the WIP PROJECT women appear within the rectangle of the canvas, using the space and edges to push against, to brace themselves, to pull away from and from which to launch themselves. WIP PROJECT - DIPTYCHS While in graduate school at Yale, I was astonished by the University's glass slide collection revealing overhead views of Michelangelo's sculptures from the Medici Chapel. I was amazed to see how closely Michelangelo coils the figures within the stone; for example how the turn of a toe nudges perfectly into the corner of the marble block. Inspired by Michelangelo's strategy, the WIP PROJECT women appear within the rectangle of the canvas, using the space and edges to push against, to brace themselves, to pull away from and from which to launch themselves. WOMEN IN PREDICAMENTS IV Each Women in Predicament is heroic in the sense of confronting the void, of appearing insignificant in contrast to the whole, and yet nevertheless, persisting with resolve and determination. Life imposes a kaleidoscope of phases in adulthood, experienced but not often acknowledged. The Women in Predicaments Series tracks them and pins them to the wall. GOOD GIRLS It's a club. Want to join? Open to men too. There are no rules. Because, of course we would never do anything others wouldn't want us to do. It's easy. We get to do lots of fun things. The Good Girls combines collage, drawing and handwriting, putting forth negative truths as positive realities, illuminating all the things we do to keep us good - and restricted. The Good Girls will be published as an edition of prints and in book format. Each Good Girls image will become a large scale painting with caption as title. LES CHATEAUX - FAUX COMMISSIONS These are faux commissions, in which personae from my Acrobats, Big kiss and Ignudi series reappear as inhabitants of these French chateaux. Source photos from Les chateaux de l'ile-de-france, Collection Realites, Hachette, 1962 WOMEN IN PREDICAMENTS I Predicaments, intrinsically neither good nor bad, present us with moments of potential in which all possibilities co-exist and the outcome is as yet unknown. DIVINE COMEDY "Divine Comedy" is an installation painting, first shown at BACA/Downtown in Brooklyn, NY. "Divine Comedy" covered the walls and ceilings of three areas of the BACA site, each one reflecting the distinct regions of Dante's masterpiece. The first stair well becomes Hell (L'inferno), the second stairwell with its 20 ft ceiling is Purgatory (Purgatorio). "Divine Comedy" culminates in a square, high-ceilinged room, transformed into a swimming pool, entered into as if underwater Paradise (Paradiso). "Cyr's versatile and imaginative image-juggling plays elegant games with the history of painting, and manifests these strengths in a fantastical and involving production." - 108 Review TULIP MANIA II A further development of the Tulip Mania series, now more gestural and abstract, in order to convey the mingling of chaos, beauty and darkness. TULIP MANIA I Oil paintings inspired by 17th century Dutch flower paintings and the tulips and never-blooming roses sold in New York City delis.