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Cybele Lyle
*Pasadena, CA - USA
 

BIOGRAPHY

2007 Hunter College, MFA
2001 California College of Arts and Crafts, BFA, Printmaking
1995 Oberlin College, BA, Environmental Studies


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008 DISCOVER (Cara Barer, Astrid Korntheuer, Cybele Lyle,
            Thomas Misik, Lydia Panas, Joachim Schulz, Flavia
            Söllner), Galerie Poller, New York
         tART Salon, Rabbit Hole Gallery, Brooklyn

2007 Photo Miami Installation, Galerie Poller, New York
        Space Stories, Chashama Gallery, New York
        MFA Thesis Show, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York
        Round 1, Dresslab.com, Online Magazine
        Good Times: Crash & Play, Vespa, New York

2006 International Flipbook Festival, Traveling

2005 What Means Free?, Chelsea Hotel, New York
        MAs Select MFAs, Times Square Gallery, New York
        Paintings & Prints, Hang Gallery, San Francisco
        Ink and Clay 30, Cal Poly, Pomona, CA

2003 Paintings, Hang Gallery, San Francisco

2002 Paintings, The Canvas, San Francisco

2001 Prints and Paintings, CCAC, San Francisco

2000 Miniatures, Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento


AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

2008 Associate Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts (Master Artist: Rob Pruitt)
2007 Nancy Ashton Memorial Prize, Hunter College
2006 Resident Artist, San Francisco Day School, San Francisco, CA
2000 Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking Scholarship Award



 

ABOUT THE WORK
I have a terrible memory and a strong desire to remember. A fear of forgetting, ultimately a fear of loss, combined with the need to protect against this loss drives my current body of work. Like putting on eyeglasses, using my various cameras has become a part of daily routine, documenting the everyday aspects of my life and helping to bridge the gap where memory fails. To help myself hold on to memories I started what became an ongoing practice, taking photos each day of whatever small things were happening; playing darts with friends, eating lunch, etc. These snapshots become the artwork, made up of images from every day up until the piece is finished. The implication is that this process will continue and tomorrow’s events will make up the next collection of photographs. The day-to-day quality of the work circumvents loss because it does not end. Since each detail has been recorded and turned into art, the hope is that my daily life has been validated and preserved outside of myself, suggesting a continual presence and a place in the future.

While much of my work is concerned with loss in terms of people, relationships and community, there are also pieces that focus more on place. These speak to the subjective relationships we have with our neighborhoods, architecture, and surroundings. Untitled (SF), 2006-07 is a huge photograph of a house in San Francisco, which is altered slightly through paint, re-photography and cutting. The image is a little different than a regular photograph of a building, as if it is not quite real. The windows are cut out so the viewer can look through them into the interior space of the installation. The photograph is the façade of a building, and is about the outside and about what you see first.

Cybele Lyle

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