Studio 37: Cindy A. Pavlinac

Candle Light, from Light Play, Seeking Solace in Dark Times, a daily pandemic lockdown photo journal

fine art photography, multimedia, digital arts

Cindy A. Pavlinac is a fine art photographer specializing in the power of place, from Stonehenge to Mt. Tam. Her art been exhibited in hundreds of shows including the de Young Open. Her photos have won numerous awards including Time Magazine Pictures of the Year and appeared in over 800 publications. She has presented multimedia productions from Grace Cathedral in San Francisco to Oxford University in England and creates site specific interactive installations, projecting hundreds of images onto hanging silk veils, usually near a labyrinth.

My art is contemplative photography, combining camera craft with a musician’s timing to snatch slivers of ever-flowing light, color, movement. Subtle worlds reveal gifts to those who slow, look with heightened awareness, see with gentle presence. We can slip into a pure world of wondrous nature, timeless patterns, magical seeing, and return with images of quiet power, calm peace, true hope. As a photographer, I lure images out of wisps of time, seeking alignments back to source, revealing the convergence of inner and outer landscapes, spinning complex tales of pilgrimage, ancient and modern, imaginative and real, questing towards expressions of the extraordinary.

Photography is all about light. Without light, there is only darkness. We are called to the journey and by wandering, we find our way home.

Cindy earned a MA in Arts & Consciousness Studies, a MFA in Creative Writing and Narrative Medicine, is a certified Labyrinth Facilitator, Integrated Learning Specialist, and adjunct Assistant Professor in Visual Studies at Dominican University of California. She is a founding studio artist at Art Works Downtown.

Art transforms walls into windows. Cindy prints on archival photo paper, high gloss aluminum metal, mounted acrylic, and other magic media. Her work is available for purchase in person at her studio and online internationally.