Bay-area artist, historian, and professor Cynthia Brannvall is a wanderer of the best kind. Cynthia has traveled and lived all throughout California, exploring “the mountains, deserts, and beaches, museums, music” and many places in between Northern and Southern California. This has largely shaped her work, stemming from pushback “against fixed ideas about identity, origins and place.”⁠

⁠Creating art is a process for Cynthia that varies depending on the materials, however, curiosity is always prevalent in her work. “Encountering the unknown is an important part of my creative process and this might be why I move across mediums. I find being in a state of unknowing to be ripe with creative possibility.” Pushing through the uncertainty, Cynthia unveils a mastery over “a new visual vocabulary.” She finds balance between the trying times and the profound growth that is found within the creative process. “My art practice is rooted in the figure and landscape but has strayed far afield into conceptual, historical and at times abstracted expressions.” Her goal is to have viewers in awe of the various textures and ingenuity that is shown on Brannvall’s canvas. ⁠

Cynthia’s year is full of exhibitions past and upcoming including but not limited to: “The Black Woman Is God” at SOMArts, “Art of the African Diaspora” at the Richmond Art Center until March 19, Associated Students Art Gallery at San Francisco State University until April 6th and “The Threads That Bind” Emerging Artist Series at the MOAD with an opening reception on March 29th. Her work “Pink and Blue” was also recently published in a Queer Rain Publication.⁠

⁠Feature Published: March 4, 2022
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