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Artist: Cindy Avroch
Year: 2024
Media/Materials: Aqua Resin
Size: 35 × 18 × 20 inches
Sisters of Strength is an evolving body of work that honors the layered resilience carried by women and girls across generations. Working primarily in figurative sculpture, I explore the quiet duality of vulnerability and power-how softness and strength coexist within the same body. Through forms wrapped in textured, protective surfaces, I examine the unseen armor women develop as they move through a world that both shapes and challenges them.
The protective layers in these works are not barriers, but acknowledgments. They symbolize lived experience: inequality, expectation, endurance, love, and survival. Even in youth, before hardship is fully understood, there exists an inherited resilience-a legacy passed from mother to daughter, woman to woman. That continuity is central to this collection.
Gesture and posture carry the emotional weight of each piece. A playful stance may hold unspoken fortitude; a maternal figure may embody both fierce protection and shared vulnerability. Surface texture becomes a language of growth and memory, suggesting strength built slowly over time. These tactile elements invite viewers to look closely and consider what is carried beneath the surface.
I am a contemporary sculptor whose work centers on themes of protection, identity, and collective experience. My practice bridges intimate narrative and broader social reflection, creating figures that feel grounded, enduring, and compassionate. Through scale, material, and presence, I aim to craft sculptures that offer recognition and affirmation.
Sisters of Strength is a tribute to the courage that often goes unseen and to the generations of women who continue to rise, protect, nurture, and persist.
Artist: Cindy Avroch
Year: 2024
Media/Materials: Aqua Resin
Size: 35 × 18 × 20 inches
Sisters of Strength is an evolving body of work that honors the layered resilience carried by women and girls across generations. Working primarily in figurative sculpture, I explore the quiet duality of vulnerability and power-how softness and strength coexist within the same body. Through forms wrapped in textured, protective surfaces, I examine the unseen armor women develop as they move through a world that both shapes and challenges them.
The protective layers in these works are not barriers, but acknowledgments. They symbolize lived experience: inequality, expectation, endurance, love, and survival. Even in youth, before hardship is fully understood, there exists an inherited resilience-a legacy passed from mother to daughter, woman to woman. That continuity is central to this collection.
Gesture and posture carry the emotional weight of each piece. A playful stance may hold unspoken fortitude; a maternal figure may embody both fierce protection and shared vulnerability. Surface texture becomes a language of growth and memory, suggesting strength built slowly over time. These tactile elements invite viewers to look closely and consider what is carried beneath the surface.
I am a contemporary sculptor whose work centers on themes of protection, identity, and collective experience. My practice bridges intimate narrative and broader social reflection, creating figures that feel grounded, enduring, and compassionate. Through scale, material, and presence, I aim to craft sculptures that offer recognition and affirmation.
Sisters of Strength is a tribute to the courage that often goes unseen and to the generations of women who continue to rise, protect, nurture, and persist.