From a friend...

​Review by Gary Erbe


The Weinberger Fine Art Gallery is located in the trendy up-and-coming Crossroads
area in Kansas City, Missouri. It was there that I encountered Cynthia Bjorn’s
paintings and her solo show.

Soft hues of yellow, blue, green and red sit quietly on the stark white walls in the
spacious Weinberger gallery. The artist, Cynthia Bjorn, has dissolved the material
world into the innocence of pure untainted emotions. Her paintings don’t speak;
they whisper an undistinguishable sense of sadness and joy.

With almost unalterable focus, she follows a singular persistent goal, to quiet her
mind with a meditative stroke from her paintbrush. She methodically builds herself
a nest with one relatively straight line at a time and echoes that gesture a thousand
times over to cradle her soul.

One could argue about the futility of Cynthia’s endeavors to comprehend and define
a region of time and space that exist without borders. We should ask, how does one
secure that space and neatly place it into the boundaries of a painting?
But, Cynthia doesn’t shrink away from the futility of this endeavor; she strived
forward toward the undoable. She struggled on her and our behalf. She fights to
create a personal space where ugliness and pain is replaced with beauty and peace,
leaving us with forty-two beautiful paintings that the entire world can reflect upon
and enjoy.
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All of us will experience times of extreme anguish and emotional pain. Some of us
may even ask ourselves, am I alone in my pain or do I share this with some greater
cosmic entity? Cynthia explores the latter in her paintings and creates bridges
between two worlds with love.