Cindy Santos Bravo's work responds to the ever-evolving hybridization of language and social identities in a contemporary urban context. Through observations of music, media, pop cultural phenomena and street aesthetic, her installation of wall-paintings layer text and imagery through use of acrylic, tag markers, vinyl cut-outs and found objects. The stimulus of her artwork is based on challenging the convention of language in order to allow new forms to emerge. Her on-going investigations of the malleability inherent to sound, images and attitude direct her focus toward further colloquial research of the overlapping nature between the African and Latino community. The visual use of street markings and colloquial designs is the analogy used to activate inquiry about everyday social interaction, in which words and territorial phrases are erased, re-designed as hand-painted signs, or exist as traces. In her work cultural struggles generate a space for the re-construction of social exchange.

ReBelucion - Entire Gallery View
Acrylic Paint, Vinyl Tape, Acrylic Markers, Found Objects
10' x 38'
Running Total (3 Walls, Left, Center, Right) 109'
2006

ReBelucion - Left Wall View
Acrylic Paint, Vinyl Tape, Acrylic Markers, Found Objects
10' x 38'
Running Total (3 Walls, Left, Center, Right) 109'
2006

ReBelucion - Right Wall View
Acrylic Paint, Vinyl Tape, Acrylic Markers, Found Objects
10' x 38'
Running Total (3 Walls, Left, Center, Right) 109'
2006

Dis-IZ-Guise
Laser Jet Paper, Acrylic Markers
16"x 20"

Plan for CapoBreak
Canvas, Acrylic Paint, Acrylic Markers
32"x73"