Artist

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Cynthia Warden, known as The Real Time Artist (TRTA), brings more than two decades of experience in media and public relations in Los Angeles to her work. With a trained understanding of how events are framed, communicated, and recognized as newsworthy, her practice is grounded in both observation and timing. Formal training in speech communication at the University of Washington—focused on rhetoric, persuasion, and media messaging—informs a disciplined approach to narrative and documentation.

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Working at the intersection of art and documentation, Warden creates each painting in real time, without the benefit of hindsight. The work translates the pace and intensity of current events into a fixed visual record. Political, cultural, and global developments are not revisited—they are captured as they unfold.

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As The Real Time Artist, she positions herself as both observer and chronicler, informed by a professional life spent analyzing media cycles, public perception, and the mechanics of narrative. That perspective shapes what is included, what is emphasized, and what is preserved.

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Rather than commentary, the work functions as record. Each piece contributes to an evolving archive of a historical moment still in motion—where immediacy becomes memory, and the present is held long enough to be seen.