Cynthia Ruse is a painter and installation artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her mixed media work explores themes of environmental concern, social justice, and personal mythology—framed through the dynamic interplay between collective and individual experience. She constructs layered narratives, that invite the viewer to inhabit both light and shadow, and to consider the many ways in which these forces can be experienced. Within quiet and still spaces, her work creates a delicate synthesis of opposites, offering moments of tension, beauty, and reflection.