Cynthia Mailman

Cynthia Mailman
Born	1942 Bronx, New York
Nationality	American
Alma mater	School of Industrial Art, Pratt Institute, Mason Gross School of the Arts
Occupation	Painter, educator

Cynthia Mailman (born 1942 in Bronx, New York) is an American painter and educator. She is known for figurative and landscape works done in a "cool, pared-down" style. Her early paintings were presented from a perspective inside the artist's VW van, looking outward, and include mirrors, wipers or other interior elements against the exterior landscape. By doing this, Mailman put the observer in the driver's seat, which is also the artist's point of view. According to Lawrence Alloway, "The interplay of directional movement and expanding space is a convincing expansion of the space of landscape painting".

Mailman graduated with an academic diploma in Advertising Art and Illustration from the School of Industrial Art (SIA), earned a BS in Fine Art and Education from Pratt Institute, and received an MFA in painting from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

Cynthia Mailman was an active participant in the feminist art movement. She was an original member of SOHO20 Artists (est. 1973), often called SOHO20 Gallery, a feminist, artist-run exhibition space. Mailman also participated in The Sister Chapel, a collaborative installation that celebrated female role models, which premiered at P.S.1 in January 1978. For The Sister Chapel, Mailman painted God, a monumental painting of the supreme deity in the form of a powerful nude woman.

In 1979, Mailman was commissioned to create a mural for the PATH train concourse at the original World Trade Center. The commission was by the Port Authority of NY and NJ through the CETA Artist Project. The 8-by-54-foot mural was entitled Commuter Landscape, a view of the Pulaski Skyway as seen through the train windows. It was seen by over 100,000 people a day. It was destroyed in the first terrorist attack on the WTC in 1993. Other commissions came from City Walls, Inc. for a 24-by-26-foot wall mural in Staten Island, and from The Wall Street Journal for the 2000 Cow Parade in NYC

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