Artist’s Statement My focus is on the beauty and enigma of light and color. I crave beauty, and work to reduce the visual to utter simplicity. My paintings embody a dynamic between being fully realized abstract paintings and remaining arrested gestures in a state of undoneness. Making paintings is a process of accumulating observations. The …
Artist’s Statement My work deals with the Black experience in America, often using“mainstream” white culture as a critical foil to convey meaning. Thethree concepts that drive my current practice are irony, activism, andmy notion of Black coolness. I’m apt to pair depictions of grizzled hustlers,veterans of the street, with images of angelic schoolgirls. Dependingon the …
Artist’s Statement Folded Cyanotypes and Folded Palladiums are closely related bodies of work that use historic photo processes to create works on paper. In both cases the paper is folded, coated with photo fluid, then exposed to light. After that, I rinse the paper in fixative to reveal the image, simultaneously flattening it. The Folded …
Artist’s Statement My primary interests include traditional folk-art forms, the politics of war, and artificial intelligence, as well as its implications within modern warfare. Drone series is inspired by my visit to Pakistan in 2011, and it involves two distinct yet contrasting visual elements: colorful and bright symbols and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), aka drones. …
Artist’s Statement Making a photograph involves finding ways in which a fixed frame can house the complex intersections between light and shadow, stillness and movement, proximity and distance, the individual and the societal, mortality and the metamorphosis of time. Being African American can mean surviving the perilous crossroads between history’s severities and the future’s indeterminate …
Artist’s Statement I work in the realm of digital materiality, creating objects through interwoven digital processing, evoking the unity of the material and the digital while exploring postfeminist identity. I am interested in creating iconographic taxonomies that transcend the idea of the mothering body, moving it into visually exquisite and grotesque constructions: mothers in production, …
Artist’s Statement Intuitive painting is the act of making marks and spreading pigment on a surface until it conveys a personal aesthetic. There is no predetermined finish or elaborate planning in my work. My paintings are a reflection of my life experience. I draw upon all I have encountered along this path. An understanding of …
Artist’s Statement My fiber art reveals my exploration of African American cultural identity, channeling messages from the ancestors. Notions of family, spiritual life, and cultural history are intertwined in patterns, symbols, and sewn lines. Often described as art quilts, my creations act as fiber story maps. Inspired by Lukasa, memory boards from the Luba people …
Artist’s Statement My methods have included forays into drawing, painting, murals, and cold-forged metalwork, and in 2015, I started making portraits on wood panel, using the grain to illustrate individuality and represent spirit. Through my portraits I examine what it means to be Black and queer. I find inspiration in natural materials, allowing the patterns …