Cynthia Beth Rubin & Renata Janiszewska

Cynthia Beth Rubin
New Haven CT USA 

Cynthia Beth Rubin (b. 1950, Rochester NY) is a new media artist based in New Haven, CT USA, with a studio practice extending from New York City to Narragansett, RI. Rubin is a gradate of Antioch College, in Ohio (BA), and the Maryland Institute, College of Art (MFA).

Rubin’s selected exhibitions include a solo at the Kraft Center for Jewish Life, Columbia/Barnard, New York NY (February, 2013), and numerous showings of Layered Histories (collaboration with Bob Gluck) such as the Jewish Museum, Prague, Czech Republic (2005), Legion Arts Center, Ceder Rapids, Iowa (2009), and Seduced by the Sacred, Jewish Art Salon Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford CT (2010). Her video les affinités recouvrées (Recovered Affinities) was featured opening night of multiple Jewish Film Festivals in 1995 (San Francisco, Boston). Recent group exhibitions include Waltz with the Earth: Art Kibbutz, Governor’s Island New York NY (2014), Under the Viaduct: West Harlem Art Fund New York NY (2014), Art Gallery at SIGGRAPH2013 (peer reviewed group exhibition) Anaheim CA (2013), and annual group exhibitions at the Oxford Gallery, Rochester NY.

A three-time recipient of grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Rubin has also been awarded international artist residencies and grants from sources as diverse as the Videochroniques (Marseilles) and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.

Renata Janiszewska
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Visual artist Renata Janiszewska was born in London, England. She has worked in mixed media, illustration, sculpture, installation and murals. She has been painting on electronic canvas since 2010. She lives in Toronto.