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① Artwork:
Together Forever (Flaming)
This artwork stems from the artist’s restless attempt to create an identity as a queer woman living in a purgatory space within her stratified Cuban and Italian lineages. The figures are represented in ghostly, pastel hues and wear blank gazes, expressing a journey of understanding and reconciliation that explores lost or fragmented familial stories and delineates the artist’s personal and emotional experiences.
Amy Bravo combines symbols and icons from Latin American popular and religious culture and personal family stories, creating intimate yet fantastic visions of a tropical island afterlife. Bravo’s unconventional approach to painting blends the known with the unknown and beauty with confusion. Working on loose canvas that she cuts and stitches together in irregular shapes, Bravo works in a mixture of graphite, painterly techniques, embroidery, and collage. To this, she adds found objects, such as dried leaves, lace, pieces of furniture, and family artifacts.
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③ Artist:
Amy Bravo combines symbols and icons from Latin American popular and religious culture and personal family stories, creating intimate yet fantastic visions of a tropical island afterlife. Bravo’s unconventional approach to painting blends the known with the unknown and beauty with confusion. Working on loose canvas that she cuts and stitches together in irregular shapes, Bravo works in a mixture of graphite, painterly techniques, embroidery, and collage. To this, she adds found objects, such as dried leaves, lace, pieces of furniture, and family artifacts.
Amy Bravo was born in 1997 in New Jersey and lives in Queens, NY. She earned her BA in Illustration from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and her MFA in Painting from Hunter College in New York, NY (2022).
She has mounted solo shows at Swivel Gallery in New York, NY; Semiose in Paris, France; and Galleria Poggiali in Milan, Italy.
Bravo’s work has participated in group shows at SESC in São Paulo, Brazil; Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York, NY; Workplace in London, UK; and The FLAG Foundation in New York, NY.
She was a resident at the Fountainhead Residency in Miami in 2022.
This artwork stems from the artist’s restless attempt to create an identity as a queer woman living in a purgatory space within her stratified Cuban and Italian lineages. The figures are represented in ghostly, pastel hues and wear blank gazes, expressing a journey of understanding and reconciliation that explores lost or fragmented familial stories and delineates the artist’s personal and emotional experiences.More
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