David Louis Cintron

Cintron has been working as a multi-disciplinary artist, musician and designer since 1990. He draws and paints daily at his creative studio in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was born and raised. Cintron received a BFA in graphic design, with a minor concentration in Studio Art, from Kent State University.

Art runs deep in Cintron’s family history. His great uncle was Miguel Pou, one of Puerto Rico’s great master painters, and his father, José Cintron, is regarded as one of Cleveland’s finest portrait artists and educators.

Cintron’s work has been featured in both solo and group shows since 1990. The 2024 Tri-C Jazzfest used an image adapted from a Cintron painting as the backdrop for their main outdoor stage, situated underneath the iconic Playhouse Square chandelier in downtown Cleveland. Internationally, from 2015-2023 he was the house artist for the boutique music and art imprint, Seratus Ribu, based in Bandung, Indonesia. His paintings, drawings and photographs were used for all of the label music selector mixes on Mixcloud as well as online radio mixes based in Mexico City, Mexico. A book of his drawings, together with a companion release of his music, was published in the summer of 2023 by Textile Records based in Paris, France.

Cintron taught at Ursuline College from 1999 – 2001 and has been an Art Director for more than 30 years. He was also part of the rock concert poster art renaissance of the 1990’s, creating flyers and posters for area music promoters as well as artist t-shirts and album covers.

Among his musical accomplishments, David was a touring guitarist in Pere Ubu, was a touring bass player for Disengage, played with Rhys Chatham in his Guitar Trio All-Stars, has had his music appraised by Julian Cope and has had his music licensed for a Chrysler car commercial. He releases solo music under his own name, leads the band,Terminal Lovers, and has recorded and collaborated with many other bands and projects over the past 36 years.

Inspired by the outside natural world as well as the inner spiritual world, Cintron’s color rich and expressive paintings are about breathing life into a visual story transcending the picture plane, containing mystery and wonder beyond words and definitions. His compositions are not described beforehand through sketching and planning, but are painted intuitively with simultaneous intention and action. Depicting images emergent from the unconscious mind, his work is an exploration and discovery of form and formlessness, negative space and imagined structures.