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Cynthia Daignault

Huntingdon Avenue

2014

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Cynthia Daignault

Huntingdon Avenue

2014

Physical Qualities Oil on canvas, Overall (18 parts): 12 × 162 in. (30.5 × 411.5 cm.) Each: 12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Michael Milligan, Baltimore
Object Number 2018.100
Time is fundamental to how we experience shifts in our world, our city, and even our neighborhoods. In 2015 Cynthia Daignault returned to her hometown of Baltimore to create a body of work deeply informed by the hyper-local area of the 2600 block of Huntingdon Avenue in Remington, a stone’s throw away from the BMA. Daignault painted the 18 panels from observation while in an artist residency. These images of iconic two-story Baltimore rowhomes taken together are a portrait of a diverse and vibrant working-class community that sits on the precipice of change. Weary and aware of how her presence as an artist sits in tension with the encroachment of gentrification, Huntingdon Avenue brings to bear the fault lines of what it means to both witness and be complicit in such shifts.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2018; Michael Milligan, by purchase, 2017; Higher Pictures
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1977–2000

born Baltimore, MD 1978
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