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Works on paper in the Cascadia series were exhibited in Drawings and Watercolors at DBerman Gallery in Texas in July/August 2011 and in a 2-person exhibition with Michael Oppenheimer at Smith & Vallee Gallery in Edison, WA, in November 2010. Several new oil paintings on panels appeared in Below Freezing, a two-person exhibition with Anna McKee at Steele Gallery, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA in November – December 2010. Works from Extremities and Cascadia appeared in Forecast: Communicating Weather and Climate, curated by Lele Barnett, at the Washington State Convention Center in January to April 2011.
Glacial Speed was exhibited at Punch Gallery in Seattle in June 2011 and at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia in July/August 2010. Glacial Speed imaginatively depicts the changing topography of a shrinking glacier with an installation that combines eighty hand-painted screen prints and a digital video.
Works from the Extremities series appeared in Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment at Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University, Salem, OR and the Boise Art Museum in Boise, ID in 2010-2011. The exhibition was curated by Sarah Clark-Langager, Director, Western Gallery, and John Olbrantz, Director, Halle Ford Museum. A catalog is available from University of Washington Press.
Wayne Alan Brenner in the Austin Chronicle wrote: “Cynthia Camlin's delicate watercolor renditions of icebergs, the parts we always see and the parts normally occluded by icy brine, their myriad facets defining and redefining what we mean by the words ‘blue’ and ‘green’ and ‘shadow’ and ‘translucent.’”