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Cynthia Ryan Kelly

Cynthia Ryan Kelly

artist/painter

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      • Overstamped: a 30 year postcard project with Leslie Keats
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Freedom Summer Paintings: A Mississippi Season of Harassment, Terrorism and Progress

Guardians Against the Grain

water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015

Overseeing the shift. It takes a lot of faith.

The Search

water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015

FBI team scours the bogs for bodies of James, Mickey and Andrew

We Shall Be Released by 10:00pm

water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015

Don't be out after 10pm.

Kiss Good-bye the White Mansions

water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015

KKK are threatened by interracial romances.

Hell's Confetti

water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015

Molotov cocktails blow up SNCC offices.

What The Neighbors Saw

water-based media on panel| 48" x 54"| 2015

Southern Runes

water-based media on panel| 30" x 40"| private collection

Ella, Diane and Fannie Lou Watching

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

A Second Kiss Is In Sight

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

Clandestiny

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

Study for Hell's Confetti

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| private collection

Molotov Cocktail For Tradition

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

Study for The Search

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

Study for What the Neighbors Saw

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

Study for Guardians Against the Grain

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

Not Where You Want to Be

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

Not Everything Means Progress

water-based media on panel| 20" x 24" fr| 2015

Carrying around the shame that I so ignorantly walked the campus where 700 plus daring students and activists learned how to survive and I never once paid them homage.  I mean, goddamn.

©2022 Cynthia Ryan Kelly. Special thanks to Birdboar. And, of course, Leslie Keats for the original design.
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  • series
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    • landscape
    • figurative
    • still life
    • postcards
    • social justice
    • Horsemania 2022
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    • statement
    • a little bio
    • collections
    • history
    • just another telling page
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    • thank you