Bio

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Originally from Middletown, New Jersey, Rebecca Cuming is a painter who has been living and working in Broomfield, Colorado since 2005. 

Cuming received her Bachelors Degree of Fine Art (honors) in1980 from the School Of Visual Arts in New York City. Prior to that she studied at the Arts Students league in NYC and Tyler School Of Art in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.

Cuming has exhibited extensively in the United States including the National Gallery, The Sumner Museum and Senate Building in Washington D.C , Monmouth Museum in Middletown New Jersey, the Allan Stone Gallery in New York City.

Cuming's regional exhibitions include the State Capitol, Denver, CO, The Arvada Center For The Arts, Arvada CO,The Lincoln Center,Fort Collins CO,The Dairy Art Center,Boulder,CO, Pirate Contemporary Art ,Denver, CO. Redline,Denver CO, and Goodwin Fine Art,Denver, CO. 

Cuming's work has been published in architectural and design magazines, and acquired by corporate and private collections throughout the United States.

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 Artist Statement 

​OPEN SPACE

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Lost in wonder, I find freedom

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Growing up on New Jersey's shores and living on Maine's coast, I've always been drawn to expansive horizons.  The wide-open spaces of the western landscape evoke a sense of familiarity ,replacing ocean waves with hypnotic prairie grasses swaying gently and linear patterns of plowed fields stretching toward the horizon. The speckled birdlife weave in and out of furrowed pathways, like white caps dissolving seamlessly  into the water's edge.

This landscape became my new ocean, symbolizing sustenance, survival and the human impact on our environment. I incorporate water elements, acknowledging its value in a dry climate.

Gardening influences my color palette, with suggestive flowers and symbolism infused into the field concept.

The contrasting applications of palette knife textures represent land's solidity and thin washy layers of overlapping color; water's fluidity.

Through my large-scale canvases , I relive the awe-inspiring experience of nature's grandeur , recapturing the thrill of its vastness and beauty. 

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ABSTRACT   

In my abstract works ,I explore the  intersections of color, emotion and nature. I seek balance and harmony in these "landscape based" non- representational  paintings through contrasting elements: warm and cool colors, hard and organic edges, control and spontaneity , masculine and feminine energies. I use various tools in which to apply paint: palette knife . wide brushes , edges of sticks, rags etc. and  use other materials such as pencil, charcoal and oil pastel to create a vocabulary unique unto itself. My intuitive ,fluid process presents unexpected challenges allowing each piece to unfold naturally.

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My  dualistic approach to the contrasting series of works, allows me to express different aspects of my personality and creative interests, exercise problem solving and adaptability. 

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