She/Her
Lenox, MA
Cynthia Wick was born and raised in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from UCLA and worked in the movie business, in LA and New York, as Executive VP of Marketing at 20th Century Fox, and then as a partner at Aspect Ratio, a movie marketing and advertising agency. During this time, her drawings were regularly featured on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times. Following her career in Hollywood, she returned to her roots as a painter. She now lives in the Berkshires with her husband, on the edge of the woods.
WHAT DID YOU GET IN TROUBLE FOR AS A KID?
Carving my initials in Pat Boone’s piano.
ANY PERSON WHO REALLY HELPED YOU IN YOUR AWESOME ARTISTIC JOURNEY?
On a challenging painting day, my painting teacher Joe Mendez said (in a thick Spanish accent), “I never promised you a rose garden.” I think of that every day in the studio, and it reminds me that tough days and digging in are part of the journey, if not THE journey.
WHERE DO YOUR BEST IDEAS COME FROM?
They usually come from something I’ve seen that grabs me and makes me swoon. Sharp sunlight on a pale pink plate. A charcoal gray cloud against an iridescent sky. Like that. Then the associations start to blaze.
ON A PROJECT, WHAT’S THE RUSH LIKE WHEN EVERYTHING CLICKS?
Can I say orgasm here?
WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE THING TO DRAW AS A CHILD?
Weirdly, “before and after” drawings of women with my set of 500 magic markers. I loved and still love fashion. I turned all of my plain-Jane “befores” into Audrey Hepburn look-alikes. Gowns by Cynthia Wick.
