Biography

Cynthia von Buhler is a painter-illustrator-performer living in Boston. In addition to numerous group shows in Boston-area galleries, her work has also been displayed in New York City (Museum of American Illustration, The Art Director's Club, and the Visual Club), and in Los Angeles (The Pacific Design Center). She was part of a three-woman show at The Distillery in Boston (August 1997) and gave a one-woman show in April 1999 at The National Video Center in Boston. Von Buhler has won the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals at the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles and the Gold Medal from the Visual Club, as well as awards from Society of Illustrators New York City, Communication Arts, 3-Dimensional Artists, and American Illustration. Von Buhler is also involved in performance art, and her troupe has performed in major cities around the country. A number of her short pieces have been performed in Boston-area clubs and galleries. Print articles about her work have appeared in ID Design Annual, Publisher's Weekly, Vogue, the Boston Globe, the Boston Phoenix, Alternative Press, LA's Entertainment Today (cover story), Improper Bostonian (cover story), Magnet, Paramour, Option, How, Step by Step, Print Design Annual, Art New England, Skin Two, Carpe Noctem, and many others. A depiction of Mary Magdalen which she painted for The New Yorker led to an interview and profile in "Mary Magdalen: An Intimate Portrait" on television's Lifetime Network. A portrait she created for Rolling Stone appeared in a music video for singer Lisa Germano (4AD Records), she made a cameo appearance in a sitcom on MTV, and starred as Betty Page in the Amazing Royal Crowns video "Do The Devil". Castle von Buhler, an independent record company created by von Buhler and her partners, Adam Buhler and Clifford Stoltze, has published a series of award-winning art and music compilations designed to raise awareness of AIDS in the art/music community and to generate financial support for The AIDS Action Committee and The William Tisdale Memorial Trust. She assembled and currently manages the pop group Splashdown, who are presently signed with Java/Capitol Records. Von Buhler's work is in the collections of The University of Toronto, Howard Stern, Lisa Germano, Oedipus (radio personality), and many others. The woodworking in Cynthia's pieces is built by assistant Keith MacLelland under her direction.