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Amy Bravo: Some Bullheaded Girls
The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) presents Amy Bravo: Some Bullheaded Girls, the artist鈥檚 first institutional solo exhibition. Through surreal, assemblage compositions, Bravo explores ideas around inheritance, memory, and biography. Fusing family history and mythology, she creates deeply personal works that question and reinterpret the stories passed on to her. The artist鈥檚 paintings, drawings and sculptures take shape as symbolic portraits, invoking the psychic impact of generational conflict and connection.
Bravo鈥檚 rich visual language is informed by her family鈥檚 past, including her grandparents鈥� life as cattle ranchers in Cuba, a place she is culturally tied to yet geographically distant from. In slowly unfolding, dreamlike narratives, she envisions a fictionalized bucolic Cuban landscape where queer female warriors converge with family archetypes, farm animals, and deities. Bravo鈥檚 figures are presented with a profusion of motifs. References to boxing, her father鈥檚 highschool sport, and rooster- and bull-headed figures symbolize defiance and stubbornness. These are traits the artist shares with the patriarchal members of her family across generations. She highlights these traits in her work as a means to move through the world with more power. For Bravo, her practice of storytelling has offered her a way to reflect on, in her words, how 鈥渕achismo is inherited and alchemized into empowerment when wielded by the feminine.鈥�
This exhibition presents a group of new works made during Bravo鈥檚 recent residency at ISCP. Inspired by memories of her grandparents鈥� home, she transforms the gallery into an uncanny domestic interior. Bravo conflates past and present in these works as she points to the fragmented and imprecise nature of ancestral histories.
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The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) presents Amy Bravo: Some Bullheaded Girls, the artist鈥檚 first institutional solo exhibition. Through surreal, assemblage compositions, Bravo explores ideas around inheritance, memory, and biography. Fusing family history and mythology, she creates deeply personal works that question and reinterpret the stories passed on to her. The artist鈥檚 paintings, drawings and sculptures take shape as symbolic portraits, invoking the psychic impact of generational conflict and connection.
Bravo鈥檚 rich visual language is informed by her family鈥檚 past, including her grandparents鈥� life as cattle ranchers in Cuba, a place she is culturally tied to yet geographically distant from. In slowly unfolding, dreamlike narratives, she envisions a fictionalized bucolic Cuban landscape where queer female warriors converge with family archetypes, farm animals, and deities. Bravo鈥檚 figures are presented with a profusion of motifs. References to boxing, her father鈥檚 highschool sport, and rooster- and bull-headed figures symbolize defiance and stubbornness. These are traits the artist shares with the patriarchal members of her family across generations. She highlights these traits in her work as a means to move through the world with more power. For Bravo, her practice of storytelling has offered her a way to reflect on, in her words, how 鈥渕achismo is inherited and alchemized into empowerment when wielded by the feminine.鈥�
This exhibition presents a group of new works made during Bravo鈥檚 recent residency at ISCP. Inspired by memories of her grandparents鈥� home, she transforms the gallery into an uncanny domestic interior. Bravo conflates past and present in these works as she points to the fragmented and imprecise nature of ancestral histories.
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