Sandra Cinto

UNTITLED, 2018
7835 Ivanhoe Avenue
Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

20' 11" x 41' 6"
Jennifer and Jay Levitt – Wall Sponsors

In Sandra Cinto’s mural, Untitled, we get lost in a vortex of lines that push and pull in every direction. Inspired by the immersive relationship of the ocean as a part of La Jolla’s Landscape, Cinto “decided to create another kind of landscape and make it by drawing without colors”. The artist intends for each viewer to have a different experience with the work as it is meant to be an open landscape. For Cinto, her work reinforces a kind of philosophy that each little mark is important, since “little details, little actions can change everything.” The viewer can be absorbed in the lines and details found in her work or step back and behold an undulating and pulsating landscape.

Sandra Cinto creates intricate and lyrical landscapes that teeter between real and imaginary. Cinto was born in 1968 in Santo André, Brazil. She studied art at the Faculdades Integradas Teresa D'Ávila-Santo André, and later received fellowships from the Cité internationale des arts, Paris, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbria, Italy. Greatly influenced by Theodore Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa and Japanese paintings and woodblock prints, Cinto uses her rich vocabulary of hand-drawn forms to depict the power and energy of the natural world while pushing the boundaries of the drawing medium. Cinto’s practice continues to expand through large scale public art installations as a means to convey messages and meaning to a wider audience. Her work leaves space for the viewer to project their own experiences, memories, and dreams while joining an immersive experience.

Her work is in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain; the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; and the Museo de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil, among others. Cinto lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

Photos by Philipp Scholz Rittermann