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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 is a visual artist of Italian-Cuban origin. By combining symbols and icons from popular and religious Latin American culture with personal family stories, Bravo invents her own intimate and fantastic vision of an afterlife island universe that mixes the known with the unknown and beauty with confusion. Bravo’s approach to painting is unconventional, as she prefers loose canvas cut and stitched together to create irregular shapes on which she combines graphite drawings, painterly techniques, and collage. The resultant drawings expand into painting, embroidery, and assemblage and include objects like dried leaves, lace, carousel horse trinkets, pieces of furniture, and artifacts from her family home.
Amy Bravo was born in 1997 in New Jersey and lives in Queens, NY. After completing a BA in Illustration at Pratt Institute in New York, NY, she earned her MFA in Painting at Hunter College in New York, NY (2022).
Bravo has mounted solo exhibitions at Galleria Poggiali in Milan, Italy (2024) and Semiose Gallery in Paris, France (2023).
Her work has also been featured in group shows at SESC in São Paulo, Brazil; Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York, NY; The FLAG Foundation in New York, NY; Workplace in London, UK; and elsewhere.
She attended 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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