https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1437858105822-C2S5RMPFV3WJ9OLKJUZ2/image-asset.jpeg Migrations: A Documentary by Z Frame - Cynthia Minet: Predator Sky Dance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1437858105822-C2S5RMPFV3WJ9OLKJUZ2/image-asset.jpeg Migrations: A Documentary by Z Frame - Cynthia Minet: Predator Sky Dance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1524080807982-CRG53JRJBAN8PZM11O7I/Title+Card+Migrations.png Migrations: A Documentary by Z Frame - Cynthia Minet Migrations: A Documentary by Zframe https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/beast-of-burden-video daily 0.75 2016-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1448761311762-SSEYN0RX9W3FEBKWD0UD/image-asset.jpeg Beast of Burden video - Beast of Burden Solo Exhibition at USC Fisher Museum Video by Eric Minh Swenson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1448761311762-SSEYN0RX9W3FEBKWD0UD/image-asset.jpeg Beast of Burden video - Beast of Burden Solo Exhibition at USC Fisher Museum Video by Eric Minh Swenson https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/drawings-3 daily 0.75 2020-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1508982055122-ZZEPYBZS069ERD4BKKEO/image-asset.jpeg drawings Study for Spoonbill #5, 2017 watercolor, pastel, charcoal 31 x 44 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1508986774199-S55ISXR8UZL7YRM7GN47/tethered-for-web.jpg drawings Tethered I, 2015. Charcoal, conte crayon on 100% rag paper 22 x 30 inches Private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1508988126226-2QP9CWYLAZB86KOX33KJ/IMG_4103.jpg drawings https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/new-blog daily 0.75 2024-06-19 https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/new-blog/2018/4/10/cynthia-minet-migrations-a-documentary-by-zframe monthly 0.5 2018-04-11 https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/new-blog/2018/4/3/lahome-magazine monthly 0.5 2018-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1522778092418-YQDZED2GEQAAWKTOVGR9/LAHome-Minet.jpg blog - LA'HOME Magazine! https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/new-blog/2018/3/20/article-by-gary-brewer-in-art-and-cake monthly 0.5 2018-03-21 https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/new-blog/2017/12/8/article-in-the-los-angeles-times-1 monthly 0.5 2017-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1512784483414-F9ZPMTM59ROVB4X7F33Z/JGJQ2IHP4VB5RKSJA7DRZMNS64.jpg blog - Article in the Los Angeles Times! https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/new-blog/2017/11/20/invitation-to-the-office-hours-reception monthly 0.5 2017-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1511223688885-WV7E13N6WI30SEMOEFFR/main+invitation.jpg blog - Invitation to the Office Hours reception https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1511223790233-X4114EF08PANUI1LP8BX/2017+Office+Hours_Opening+Reception+Invitation.jpg blog - Invitation to the Office Hours reception https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/new-blog/2017/10/25/appearance-of-modern-art-blitz-with-mat-gleason monthly 0.5 2017-11-11 https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/new-blog/2016/4/30/many-days-later monthly 0.5 2016-04-30 https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/new-blog/2016/2/21/day-1-of-my-new-blog monthly 0.5 2016-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1456095679873-T87MJAC7EV73NPOUC547/IMG_4465.jpg blog - Day 1 of my new blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1456097086627-DNN4DPFQXRFYJCAQZAAF/image-asset.png blog - Day 1 of my new blog     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1456096447468-91JQTLV97RVF9W2OVADZ/image-asset.jpeg blog - Day 1 of my new blog ... https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/new-blog/category/art monthly 0.5 https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/portfolio daily 0.75 2017-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1507317155892-EIY50BEKXKJUUJGATIKL/DSC-0006.jpg portfolio - Beast of Burden at the Fisher Museum this is a test https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1507317155892-EIY50BEKXKJUUJGATIKL/DSC-0006.jpg portfolio - Beast of Burden at the Fisher Museum this is a test https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1507317221292-GKWBOI7FXJSYBURPIA8L/DSC-0008-2.jpg portfolio - Beast of Burden at USC Fisher Museu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1507317307967-GEV6ROJYFENZL95V5MDP/DSC-0006.jpg portfolio this was a solo show at the Fisher Museum at USC. Featuring life size animals made from recycled plastics, and drawings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1507317796888-CDA5Y17WCOXBMYO38OLA/11cminet_predator_skydancefull_for+drain.jpg portfolio - PREDATOR: SKY DANCE THIS IWAS KLJDLFJDL;FJSAF;LJSL ;[[PK',;;KL;K https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/new-gallery-2 daily 0.75 2017-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1508886203935-7T6SF8G9JB19DXVA08NI/migrationsforairport.jpg New Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1508886203935-7T6SF8G9JB19DXVA08NI/migrationsforairport.jpg New Gallery https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/drawings-test daily 0.75 2017-10-26 https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/portfolio-2 daily 0.75 2017-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1507316714649-3P0LAR5XM6BPNGY9Z915/04_predator_falcon.jpg portfolio - the falcon this is new to me https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/the-ruse daily 0.75 2018-09-08 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/t/5b933538562fa717cd9437e8/1536374045399/ Sculptures https://static1.squarespace.com/static/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/5b93351388251b7b96839643/5b93351d562fa717cd943711/1536374045399/ Sculptures https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/new-gallery-3 daily 0.75 2019-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1571957057258-KJ3TUGMQCKH32J9RB8XF/01_cynthiaminet_IMAS+full+view+copy.jpg Portfolio Page Migrations, 2018 (installation at the International Museum of Art and Science, (IMAS), Post-consumer plastic, sequenced programmable LEDs, fasteners, sound, motion sensors, refuse gathered from Texan borderlands, recycled climbing ropes, cleats, cable. Each bird= 70x60x38 inches, (with slight variations in size), exhibition spaces 30 x 90 ft (IMAS) The brilliant sculptures of Los Angeles artist Cynthia Minet, carefully constructed of brightly colored plastics, LED lights and sound, combine whimsy, serious social and political commentary, and a deep commitment to the preservation of our natural environment. IMAS is honored to host her site-specific installation, Migrations, the result of visits to the Rio Grande Valley and observation of the aquatic wading bird the Roseate Spoonbill. Minet sees the Roseate Spoonbill as an effective artistic surrogate for human experiences in the region. Native to the Southeast coastal regions, its migration takes it all the way to South America. Due to its dependence on a specific balance of water levels and food for its survival and propagation, the Audubon Society considers this bird an indicator of the environmental health of the Gulf Coast. Minet’s sculptures are based on close study of the bird’s anatomical structure with a result that is highly realistic yet painfully fantastical. Artifacts dropped along the border are imbedded into the sculptures of Migrations: clothing, ear buds, cigarette packaging, Homeland Security bags, mascara, a toothbrush and “Minions” sticker. Scott Nicol, artist, border activist, and faculty at South Texas Community College, added artifacts to those Minet collected. The use of found materials, whether migrant dropped or sourced from recycled household containers or toys, expresses the underlying meanings of the installation. Through these discarded objects, Minet explores both the risks migrants take to escape intolerable situations and the specter of plastic which slowly erodes in our landfills but never disappears. Petrochemical products are a significant component in the loss of habitats and species to climate change and pollution. Given the worldwide migrant crisis and plans of the U.S. administration to build an even larger wall, Migrations is strikingly timely in its exploration of the complex social and political issues of borderlands, whether in the United States or worldwide. The spoonbills’ return from an almost extinct status in the late 1800’s is now threatened again by man-made obstacles that parallel the threats to our own social fabric. Cynthia Minet has created a conceptually and politically astute body of work that exudes a wry hope for our future: that we will commit to the care of our natural and human worlds. Curator: Jennifer Cahn, PhD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1571957057258-KJ3TUGMQCKH32J9RB8XF/01_cynthiaminet_IMAS+full+view+copy.jpg Portfolio Page Migrations, 2018 (installation at the International Museum of Art and Science, (IMAS), Post-consumer plastic, sequenced programmable LEDs, fasteners, sound, motion sensors, refuse gathered from Texan borderlands, recycled climbing ropes, cleats, cable. Each bird= 70x60x38 inches, (with slight variations in size), exhibition spaces 30 x 90 ft (IMAS) The brilliant sculptures of Los Angeles artist Cynthia Minet, carefully constructed of brightly colored plastics, LED lights and sound, combine whimsy, serious social and political commentary, and a deep commitment to the preservation of our natural environment. IMAS is honored to host her site-specific installation, Migrations, the result of visits to the Rio Grande Valley and observation of the aquatic wading bird the Roseate Spoonbill. Minet sees the Roseate Spoonbill as an effective artistic surrogate for human experiences in the region. Native to the Southeast coastal regions, its migration takes it all the way to South America. Due to its dependence on a specific balance of water levels and food for its survival and propagation, the Audubon Society considers this bird an indicator of the environmental health of the Gulf Coast. Minet’s sculptures are based on close study of the bird’s anatomical structure with a result that is highly realistic yet painfully fantastical. Artifacts dropped along the border are imbedded into the sculptures of Migrations: clothing, ear buds, cigarette packaging, Homeland Security bags, mascara, a toothbrush and “Minions” sticker. Scott Nicol, artist, border activist, and faculty at South Texas Community College, added artifacts to those Minet collected. The use of found materials, whether migrant dropped or sourced from recycled household containers or toys, expresses the underlying meanings of the installation. Through these discarded objects, Minet explores both the risks migrants take to escape intolerable situations and the specter of plastic which slowly erodes in our landfills but never disappears. Petrochemical products are a significant component in the loss of habitats and species to climate change and pollution. Given the worldwide migrant crisis and plans of the U.S. administration to build an even larger wall, Migrations is strikingly timely in its exploration of the complex social and political issues of borderlands, whether in the United States or worldwide. The spoonbills’ return from an almost extinct status in the late 1800’s is now threatened again by man-made obstacles that parallel the threats to our own social fabric. Cynthia Minet has created a conceptually and politically astute body of work that exudes a wry hope for our future: that we will commit to the care of our natural and human worlds. Curator: Jennifer Cahn, PhD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1571958069163-JM8UYWHHT8683WZOIA7R/cynthiaminet_migrations%40IMAS.jpg Portfolio Page Migrations, 2018, (detail), at the International Museum of Art and History, McAllen, TX Post-consumer plastic, sequenced programmable LEDs, fasteners, sound, motion sensors, refuse gathered from Texan borderlands, recycled climbing ropes, cleats, cable. Each bird= 70x60x38 inches, (with slight variations in size), exhibition space 30 x 90 ft (IMAS) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1571958043690-IZ5GC4EFLFTMQ1LLE92Z/CynthiaMinet_Migrations2.jpg Portfolio Page Migrations, 2019, (detail) at the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA. Post-consumer plastic, sequenced programmable LEDs, fasteners, sound, motion sensors, refuse gathered from Texan borderlands, recycled climbing ropes, cleats, cable. Each bird= 70x60x38 inches, (with slight variations in size), exhibition spaces 30 x 90 ft (IMAS), 30 X 60 ft, (MOAH). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1571958094929-FAFHZSOZS8LIGW7OL5BH/CynthiaMinet_Bird5_MOAH.jpg Portfolio Page Migrations, 2019, at the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA. Post-consumer plastic, sequenced programmable LEDs, fasteners, sound, motion sensors, refuse gathered from Texan borderlands, recycled climbing ropes, cleats, cable. Each bird= 70x60x38 inches, (with slight variations in size), exhibition space 30 X 60 ft, (MOAH). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1571957243056-ED16N7KM8WTBXUCJCYV4/02_cynthiaminet_packdogs%40fishermuseum_new5x7.jpg Portfolio Page Pack Dogs, installation for Gyre: The Plastic Ocean, Anchorage Museum, AK., shown here at USC Fisher Museum of Art. 2014, 2015. Post-consumer plastic, LEDs, coaxial cable, PVC. Each dog= 56 1/4 l x 28 h x 14 d, sled= 85 l x 46 h x 39 d inches, (not pictured). Overall installation= 46 x 360 x 60 inches (dimensions variable) 2014. Pack Dogs is a site-specific installation made for the Gyre: The Plastic Ocean exhibit at the Anchorage Museum, Alaska, in 2014. Part of the Unsustainable Creatures series, the Pack Dogs are interpretations of five huskies pulling a transport sled. The colored lights in the dogs are meant to reference the hues of the Aurora Borealis. Since the dogs are working animals, they are meant as surrogates for human experience, and represent our domestication into our chores, and into our dependency on petrochemicals and on electricity. As part of an exhibit that focused on marine debris, they point to our shared responsibility for the planet. Gyre: The Plastic Ocean (and Pack Dogs) ran from Feb 7- Sept 6, 2014 at the Anchorage Museum, Alaska. It travelled to: Center for Disease Control Museum, (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia. 2015, the USC Fisher Museum, Los Angeles, California 2015, and to San Jose State University Gallery, San Jose, California, 2016 The Pack Dogs were displayed at the Eden Roc Hotel lobby, Miami Beach, Florida. December 7, 2017 through mid-January 2018, during Art Basel Miami/Miami Art Week. Three of the dogs were just presented in Ecotopia, at LightBringer/Day One as part of ArtNight Pasadena, for which I received an artist minigrant from the City of Pasadena. (October 2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1508888995672-QNG9Y5XGNE8GFI9MCJHS/09Minet_+LAX+%231-1.jpg Portfolio Page Packing(Caravan), 2013. Recycled and re-purposed plastics, PVC, hardware, LEDs. Overall length of display case= 80 h x 480 l x 60 w inches. On view in the Customs Hallway of the Tom Bradley International Terminal, Los Angeles International Airport. 2013. Packing Caravan is a project commissioned by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Los Angeles World Airports temporary art program in 2011. The installation filled the display case in the Customs Hallway of the Tom Bradley Terminal with a series of new sculptures made specifically for the 43’ foot display case. It consisted of four life-size pack animals. Inspired by working animals that international traveller could identify with, it featured a camel (11 feet), an elephant (11 feet), and two oxen (9 feet each). In addition to providing tourists with an exciting visual display, the Packing (Caravan) presented a humorous parallel to the international travel experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1571958978112-MLNIF269UIIRLGRRYQIO/new+elephant.jpg Portfolio Page Solo Exhibit, Beast of Burden.(detail) USC Fisher Museum of Art, 2015 Unsustainable Creatures:Elephant, 2014. (Originally part of Packing(Caravan), at LAX. 80 x 115 x 52 iinches recycled and repurposed plastic, LEDS, PVC, hardware in background, Predator:Falcon1 2014 25 x 32 x 6 inched,post-consumerplastic,LEDs The USC Fisher Museum of Art is pleased to showcase a solo exhibition of Los Angeles artist Cynthia Minet. This body of work presented under the title Beast of Burden features illuminated, life-size, mixed media sculptures of domesticated animals from the series 'Unsustainable Creatures.' The exhibition draws upon the artist's ongoing reflection on the complicated relationships and dependence humans have with the world we inhabit, and continued interest in scientific and ecological issues. It also emphasizes Minet’s investigation of materials, and her aesthetics in successfully transforming found and repurposed plastic materials into visually compelling mixed media sculptures. The term 'Beast of Burden' traditionally refers to an animal, such as an ox or an elephant, used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work. It also pertains to any domesticated animal trained to perform tasks for humans. Minet’s singular and visually commanding take on this notion focuses on the burden that consumerism and disposable culture places on the natural world, and the need for sustainable resources. The exhibition will also premiere Minet’s new series focusing on raptors. These birds of prey, long trained for the more exotic sport of falconry, are currently used in commercial bird eradication programs, and are flown through vineyards several times a day, rendering them almost as domesticated as farm animals. The artist explores this dichotomy and implications such as the predator drone, the role of humans as predators, and the falcon and hawk as symbols of strength and renewal. curator: Ariadni Liokatis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1402513461518-STC1E7BU3VJXDTHWTCS4/HBAC2%401500.jpg Portfolio Page Ox Pull originated at the Huntington Beach Art Center, in a 3-person show in 2012. The Oxen were subsequently shown as a solo installation at the Culver Center for the Arts/UCR ARTSblock in 2012. In 2013, they were part of the Packing (Caravan), at Los Angeles International Airport. 2014 saw them at the Museo, Anaheim. In 2015, they were installed again in another full installation at CSUN's Performing Arts Center Gallery. In 2016, a single ox surrounded by illuminated bottles was shown in Ox Pull along the River, part of the CURRENT: LA/Frogtown Artwalk along the Los Angeles River. Ox Pull, Huntington Beach Art Center, CA. July-September 2012. Part of Escape from the Landfill, 3 person show with Joyce Dallal and Olgah Lah, Curated by Darlene D'Angelo. Photo credits: Martin Cox   https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/work-avenue daily 0.75 2025-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1402435499193-QGQOSSSZEL35U9WDLH5U/Minet+Press+Photo+LAX+%401500.jpg SCULPTURE packing (caravan) Customs Hallway of the Tom Bradley Intl. Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport. Commissioned by the Los Angeles World Airports Art Program and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. April-October 2013. Photo credit: PanicStudios/LA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1508983489287-3F8SC4Z4W1GFVPE8ECRZ/minet_falcon.jpg SCULPTURE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1483137743073-4MKUOV6K1N2S2MA8S6I2/tam_entangled_plasticelephant_02.jpg SCULPTURE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1506903084759-REFG3TM8TVKHIBVAXT02/DSC-0006.jpg SCULPTURE - Cynthia Minet: Beast of Burden In conjunction with the Gyre:The Plastic Ocean exhibit, this solo show at the Fisher Museum of Art included new drawings and sculptures on the themes of domestication and the contrast between wild and tamed. October 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1635204666423-WCZPL4XQ23PKVK3G7EMM/upper+cut+image.png SCULPTURE - Upper Cut, 2020 8h x 17w x 20d inches wood, plastic, metal, paper, mounted on existing methane vent 2020 (work destroyed over the course of two weeks) My work is often site-specific, made in response to the exhibition venue, and I usually work with recycled materials and light to draw attention to environmental issues. This disused methane vent, on North Broadway outside of Chinatown, inspired me to make a piece that plays with scale. It points to life in a petrochemical-dependent world, where the divide between the "haves and haves-not" grows ever wider. Located on a main thoroughfare, the work was slowly vandalized. I replaced the stolen miniature hand-made figures, and repaired other broken parts several times, until the piece was ultimately destroyed beyond repair. Upper Cut was part of artist collective Durden and Ray’s “We Are Here / Here We Are”, a Los Angeles County-wide exhibition of nearly 100 artists that explored our innate desire for connectivity through sensation. Due to the constraints of the COVID-19 lockdown, the artists in this exhibition chose public spaces to display their work — from Santa Monica to the East Side and from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach. The location of each piece was posted on a Google Map that allowed the exhibition to be explored virtually or in real life. We are here. http://www.durdenandray.com/the-exhibition-project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1635208431815-DW1MSPCZIFJIX2SUG112/Minet_frog-lit-for-web.jpg SCULPTURE - Frog, 2016 18 x 18 x 18 inches. Post-consumer plastics, LEDS, PVC, toys. Made as a commission for artist Joyce Dallal to draw a visual and conceptual parallel between her Another Toy Story project, and the Disappearing Frogs Project. Exhibited in North Carolina in April 2016, it is now in the private collection of the Disappearing Frogs Project coordinators. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1579829079252-YQNGUHLVSMUZDPT9DOHW/CRAFT_CYNTHIA_028_for+postcard.forweb.jpg SCULPTURE - Jacked: Panthera Atrox Recycled plastic, wood, aluminum, steel, motor, LED lights, fasteners Size= 156 l x 43 w x 54 h (without beam extended). With beam extended, height is 84" inches 2019 Informed by a long-standing interest in ecological issues, Cynthia Minet’s animal sculptures— featuring her signature use of found plastic materials and LED lights—address the complicated roles of plastic, consumer culture, and electricity in modern life. Minet’s Jacked: Panthera Atrox is one-part animal and one-part machine combining the form of the panthera leo atrox—an extinct North American lion whose remains have been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits—with the mechanisms of a modern-day oil pump jack. By using post-consumer plastics to construct the hybrid form, Minet draws attention to both the past and the present of petroleum, simultaneously referencing the ancient animal remains that have been preserved in the Miracle Mile area’s tar pits and highlighting the damage that consumption of petroleum products has had upon the environment and animal species. In doing so, she illustrates the entire cycle of petroleum, from its discovery in its rawest form as tar to its processed state as everyday plastic. To create her work, Minet collected plastic bottles, toys, and other products from the trash or second-hand stores. She meticulously cuts the plastic components into shapes that are joined together over an armature to create the final form. Minet worked with two collaborators to realize her project, Mike Roof on the mechanical aspects of her piece and Vaughn Hannon on lighting design. written by curator: Holly Jerger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1571957243056-ED16N7KM8WTBXUCJCYV4/02_cynthiaminet_packdogs%40fishermuseum_new5x7.jpg SCULPTURE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1635213473619-ESUFWO9ZULKA7FEZ0VNN/07-08-21_CYNTHIA_21809.jpg SCULPTURE - SECONDS TO LAST, 2021 Inflatable sculpture made from repurposed camping tents, fan, sequenced LEDs, tie ropes, sand bags 67 x 120 x 64 inches 2021 image credit: Brittany Bravo Seconds to Last is a new solo installation by Cynthia Minet. Minet is known for her life-scale illuminated sculptures of animals. Made from recycled plastics and lit by LEDs, her works draw attention to our human dependencies on fossil fuels and electricity, as well as the resulting environmental degradation facing our planet. The artist's first inflatable sculpture, Seconds to Last, depicts the nearly extinct Northern White Rhinoceros: there are only two surviving members of the subspecies on Earth. In a nod to her most recent work, which focused on both human and animal migration, Minet utilizes repurposed camping tents sourced from her neighbors' visits to the Burning Man festivals. As our cities fill with people living in tents, the result, in part, of our profit-based economy, so too does the rhinoceros face extinction, due to poaching and loss of its habitat. The sculpture is lit by LEDs whose colors reference the seven energy chakras. Presented in a darkened room at the museum, the project's sequenced lighting slowly extinguishes before the viewer, until its presence will be only sensed in darkness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1635213907604-N43A4HSED5LMPYGDDEUU/18minet_pigatPOST%2Bcopy.jpg SCULPTURE Unsustainable Creatures, solo installation at PØST, Los Angeles. August 2009. Unsustainable Creatures is an ongoing project begun in 2009 in response to an invitation to make work for a night club in Padova, Italy. The location was flanked by a recycling facility, and it was a logical starting point for sourced materials that could be illuminated by optical fibers and LEDS. The first piece was this pig, and the single works have developed into multiple groupings and re-configurations of life-size domesticated animals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1635224065034-2ZK4NFA440JM9WL0UV1G/minet_ox+at+muzeo.jpg SCULPTURE Ox I at The Muzeo, Anaheim, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1580924471523-OE5WJ39VEVXKLSCDTDJK/cynthiaminet_gorilla2forsite.jpg SCULPTURE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1571957057258-KJ3TUGMQCKH32J9RB8XF/01_cynthiaminet_IMAS+full+view+copy.jpg SCULPTURE - Migrations (Spoonbills), installation view, 2018, at the IMAS Post- consumer plastic, PVC, wood, fasteners, programmable LEDs, motion sensor, speaker, found objects from Rio Grande borderlands, rope, cable. Each bird approx. 70 x 60 x 38 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1691267050509-7DZ0NO3Q0JH9ECEE67AU/image-asset.jpeg SCULPTURE - PET new little dog sculpture, 14 x 14 x 8 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1425245986161-1OOQXV7VV10N49DCRN1G/muzeo+front+view.jpg SCULPTURE Caravan @ Muzeo features sculptures from the Unsustainable Creatures series, an ongoing project since 2009. Here installed as part of Transcending Trash, the Art of Upcycling. Curated by Matthew Leslie. Muzeo, Anaheim, CA. April 26-Aug 31, 2014. 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Charcoal, conte crayon on 100% rag paper 22 x 30 inches Private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1508986886736-S1PYOWGGEQL2JVZ893SL/image-asset.jpeg Predator Drawings Tethered II, 2015 watercolor, pastel, charcoal 40 x 26 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1508986924146-8WD6CG3EC7KUGDTXTF6L/IMG_1228.jpg Predator Drawings Study for Predator:Sky Dance II, 2015 charcoal, conte' crayon, gouache on Stonehenge paper 22 x 30 inches   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1508986488457-EV0IO4MZUKWA7WMDMAE2/IMG_1229.jpg Predator Drawings Study for Predator:Sky Dance I, 2015 charcoal on Arches paper 22 x 30 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1406848884362-DJV07JXDP57XQF496V58/minet_bird+drawing+1.jpg Predator Drawings Study for falcon sculpture I, 2014 charcoal on paper 48 x 53 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1508985182516-LRQXC9EQJ76B7QPS33V7/minet_bird+drawing+2.jpg Predator Drawings Falcon Study II, 2014 charcoal and conte on rag paper 30 x 44 inches, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1508983755055-F7T2PGC5P90JLNH04PRH/ca+m%27etonne%21.jpg Predator Drawings Ca m'etonne!, 2015 Watercolor, pastel pencils on Arches paper 22 x 30 inches Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/1508986556813-D1IO2TE3WS0Z1HGAL2JB/sea-ground--largeforweb.jpg Predator Drawings Sea? 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This disused methane vent, on North Broadway outside of Chinatown, inspires me to make a piece that plays with scale. It points to life in a petrochemical-dependent world, where the divide between the "haves and haves-not" grows ever wider. https://cynthia-minet.squarespace.com/latestnews daily 1.0 2026-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/db35d34a-3acd-43e0-80a9-ed05781f6123/CYNTHIA+MINET+3-2-2026_tiger.jpg Latest News - Make it stand out Stacked is a sculpture in a new medium for me. I cut up and repurposed polystyrene packing materials, and sand cast them into aluminum at Alphacast Foundry in Los Angeles. The sculpture is made of 4 abstracted forms: a Galapagos Tortoise, an inverted Red Wolf/Dog hybrid, a horse fragment based on the last wild horses in the Russian steppes, and a human figure that surmounts them, dominating all the endangered species of the planet. I hope that visitors will notice the recycling logos and other brand markings on the sculpture and understand the messaging about the ecological threats of using polystyrene and other petroleum derived products. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bd64be4b0aea826722df8/e2b035b9-2236-474c-bd7f-1a168ce9ebce/Screenshot+2025-04-27+at+1.33.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Latest News - Make it stand out Unsustainable Creatures: Elephant 80 x 115 x 52 inches Post-consumer plastics, PVC, LEDs, hardware 2013 This sculpture was originally made for an installation at the Los Angeles International Airport’s International Terminal, in 2013