David Louis Cintron

Born in Cleveland, Ohio / Works in Cleveland, Ohio

David Louis Cintron has been a working multi-disciplinary artist, musician and art director since 1990. He draws and paints daily at his creative studio in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was born and raised. David received a BFA in graphic design, with a minor concentration in studio art, from Kent State University and later taught at Ursuline College. His work has been featured in both solo and group shows, is in numerous private collections, and has been internationally commissioned and published.

Inspired by the natural world and the inner spiritual realm, my artistic practice functions as a daily grounding meditation—an expression of what I notice.

With more than 36 years of experience in painting, drawing, and design, my creative process is guided by deeply trusted intuition. My ink drawings and colorful acrylic paintings emerge through a continual interplay between automatism and conscious decision-making. I work without predetermined outcomes, allowing images and forms to emerge from the unconscious, then stepping back to consider color, composition, pattern, shape, space, and dimension.

My work explores form and formlessness, energy and movement, and imagined structures and scenes that contain mystery and wonder beyond words and definitions. I occasionally recognize familiar forms and may cultivate them just enough while often allowing identification to remain elusive. The intervals between work sessions provide space for reflection and discovery and are an essential temporal aspect of my process.