Rain Machine by Eric Tillinghast, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. 2010

Although Cyndi Conn had carved her own space in the contemporary art world, she’s chosen to reside in the margins. Conn is an ardent promoter of the unconventional. With an investigative eye, Conn mines “the nerve endings of contemporary art” in search of outliers working independently of mainstream taste. She is, in this regard, the future of where art and its entrepreneurs are headed.  - Elizabeth Lake