On Display: August 12 - 29:
Opening Reception: Thursday August 14th, 4pm - 6pm

Cynthia Packard

Cynthia Packard (b. 1957) has been artistic since childhood—from hanging batiks at sidewalk shows with her mother to creating mixed-media paintings on a variety of subjects.

After graduating from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1981 with an MFA in sculpture, Packard moved to Provincetown, where her family’s artistic lineage began. Her great grandfather, Max Bohm (Gold Medalist of the Paris Salon in 1898) is credited as an original founder of Provincetown as an artists’ colony. Her mother, Anne Packard, is a world-renowned landscape painter based in Provincetown and was a very important part of her decision to live there, too, and paint.

Packard modeled for the late Fritz Bultman and eventually became his sole student. It was during her twice-weekly studies with Bultman that she learned the Hans Hofmann method of drawing, which she describes as almost scientific in nature. The founding editor of Provincetown Arts magazine, Chris Busa, observed that Packard has an innate understanding of the importance of the removal of lines, revision of gesture, and the radical use of the reorientation of geometry.

Provincetown painter Cynthia Packard has been selected by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod as the 35th Annual Citizens Bank Pops by the Sea commemorative artist.Ms. Packard, who grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, comes from a lineage of artists. Her great-grandfather was the noted impressionist Max Bohm, who played a significant role in establishing Provincetown’s art colony. Her mother, Anne Packard, is renowned for her sea and landscape paintings.

Ms. Packard graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1981 with a master of fine arts degree in sculpture; she moved to Provincetown to pursue a career as an artist.