Abigail Synnestvedt entered Northern Vermont University’s Low Residency MFA program in the summer of 2020. She received a BFA and Certificate in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia PA in 2015. Synnestvedt’s work was included in OHO Projects Guston Response Takeover at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on August 20th, 2022. In 2019 she was part of the two person exhibition In Plain Sight at Lauren Kindle Studios in Easton, PA. Her work was included in the Wet Paint Exhibition, at the Workhouse Arts Center in Virginia juried by Harry Cooper in 2017. In July of 2022, she attended the Vermont Studio Center Residency. Synnestvedt is a two time winner of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.
Observed from life, my subjects are interpreted into a composed world of light, color, and shapes. Light, color, and shape are abstract formal elements that provide the structure for my representational depictions. I engage with the deep sense of beauty I feel from the abstract elements I observe.
My preferred medium is paint, but my artistic practice also includes drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Different creative disciplines inform one another, and one becomes a better painter by becoming a better draftsman, printmaker, and sculptor.
I wish to convey psychological narratives through environments, light, and atmosphere. My sense of humanity and spirit is expressed in the posture of a person, character of a place, or the disposition of still life objects in my work. My work invites the viewer to experience the presence of the sitter, scene, or object that I’ve felt while making the piece. Grappling with formal elements of painting I desire to leave the viewer not with a reproduction of life but with an intangible feeling.
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