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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets

Cynthia Brannvall

An interview by Katherine Williams , curator and Josh Ryder , curator landescape @ europe . com
Visual artist Cynthia Brannval ' s work a channel of communication between the inner Self and the outside world : her hybrid and unconventional practice accomplishes the difficult task of challenging the relationship between the viewers ' perceptual parameters and their cultural substratum to induce them to elaborate personal associations , offering them a multilayered aesthetic experience and urging to question the relationship between the notions of landscape and identity . One of the most impressive aspects of Brannvall ' s work is the way it accomplishes a successful attempt to inquire into hybridity , inbetween spaces and underrepresented perspectives , waliking the viewers through a journey towards the liminal are between the real and the imagined . We are very pleased to introduce our readers to her stimulating artistic production .
Hello Cynthia and welcome to LandEscape : before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background ? You have a solid background and after having earned your BA of History and Practice of Art , you nurtured your education with a Master of Arts in History of Art , that you received from the San Francisco State University .
How do these experience influence your evolution as an artist ? And in particular , how does your cultural substratum dued to your mixed ethnic heritage inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general ?
1 ) Hello Thank you for this opportunity to talk about my work . Yes I did a double major at UC Berkeley and received a BA in Art Practice and Art History and then did graduate work in Art History where I completed a MA program at San Francisco State University . Before I enrolled at UC Berkeley my art work was primarily based in drawing and oil painting with a little bit of image based collage work and centered on landscape and the Higure . While pursuing my undergraduate degree in Art Practice at UC Berkeley I began exploring new materials as mediums . I was doing a degree in art history simultaneously and so I was becoming acutely aware of long established aesthetic hierarchies and the artists and art movements that rebelled against those conventions . I wasn ’ t necessarily trying to emulate those artists but I started to think about materials differently . I started to see media and material as conceptual signiHiers tied to particular histories regardless of what subject matter they were used to convey . In addition , I started using my art practice as a way to process what I was encountering in the art historical research I was doing . My honors thesis in Art
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