Cindy DeSantis (aka Cindy Pop) was born
in a suburb of Philly named Conshohocken. It was there amid a laughing
satiric Italian Puerto Rican Catholic homelife (eternal blasting TV -
General Hopsital and the Flintstones - Radio screaming - American
Bandstand (her Uncle Cha Cha danced on the show), a Spanish station -
Motown) that she sat and doodled cartoons and drawings with one liners
like a low tech obsessed demon artist. Her mother, (Imagine Charo mixd
with Lily Munster) has a massive doll collection. Her father, (think
Ralph Cramden and Barney Miller with a touch of Perry Mason) has a
massive toy collection. A carpenter by trade with a well equipped
workshop in the basement he taught Cindy how to use power tools. Dad is
also a folk artist who paints primitive hometown scenes on old handsaws
and tools. After graduating from high school she got diverted into
singing lead in a band for 8 years. In1988 she followed a friend to LA
and discovered art again. Eventually settling on assemblage art and
cartooning as her favorite genres. The surfaces of her first
assemblages incorporated found objects including hardware, icons,
photos, song lyrics, mirrors, trash, toys and more. A press quote
stated, "Her artwork is full of astute observations of both
society and her own jaded living-on-the-fringe lifestyle. Her work is
infused with her own wicked sense of humor, social commentary, dry wit,
childlike innocence and cutting irony." She published a book of
one panel cartoons called "Pink Poodleland" on Atmus Press and
her cartoons had been seen in various gallery shows and art rags. Her
time now is split between her "Save Us' series and her love of music
(check out the art pop band, KITTENFREAKY
, writing cd reviews for DERT,
and other singing and theater endeavors under her stage name, CINDY POP . Bla Bla Bla
Bla...does anyone really read these. LOL. If you made it this far I'm
impressed.
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