Some Bullheaded Girls, February 25th-June 6th 2025​

International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, New York

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The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) presents Amy Bravo: Some Bullheaded Girls, the artist’s 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’s paintings, drawings and sculptures take shape as symbolic portraits, invoking the psychic impact of generational conflict and connection. 

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Bravo’s rich visual language is informed by her family’s past, including her grandparents’ 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’s figures are presented with a profusion of motifs. References to boxing, her father’s high school 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 “machismo is inherited and alchemized into empowerment when wielded by the feminine.” 

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This exhibition presents a group of new works made during Bravo’s recent residency at ISCP. Inspired by memories of her grandparents’ 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.