The Artist Uses Art to Explore the Issuses of an African American in Comtemperary America
I've been spending a lot of fourth dimension on Tik Tok (aren't we all), and I came beyond a few pieces of content highlighting Black artists. They were from art history majors so I'm not surprised that they were sharing individuals similar Jean-Michel Basquiat and Carrie Mae Williams, every bit they should since they're a central part of art history.
However, I wanted to share a listing of Black artists that bridge all the fashion from established to emerging. Artists whose work you can encounter in a museum, some of them you can even see in their studio. Some of them y'all tin can even purchase (their piece of work going for thousands instead of millions). I understand this list isn't comprehensive past whatever means and is completely biased towards the artists whose work has spoken to ME over the years, but I think their work will speak to you as well.
I've listed the artists in alphabetical order and accept shared whatever detail I call up is helpful in describing why I think they're amazing too as where yous can acquire more. I know I've left out some artists I'd like to include fifty-fifty as I'thousand publishing this, so I'll try to keep it update the best I can. Also if y'all are one of these artists and for whatever reason do non identify every bit Black and would like to be removed please allow me know at contact@marylynnbuchanan.com.
Adam Pendleton
"Adam Pendleton (born 1984, Richmond, Virginia) is an American conceptual artist known for his multi-disciplinary exercise, involving painting, silkscreen, collage, video and functioning." (source)
His most recognizable work are his blackness and white 'text'/graffiti silkscreens and paintings. He was the youngest artist to sign with Pace Gallery since the 70's - at the historic period of 28.
Website: http://adampendleton.internet/
Instagram: @pendleton.adam
Alex Gardner
"Alex Gardner is a figure painter working in acrylic to make intense and memorable scenes. In these paintings, the creative person charges the familiar with poignancy, highlights the details as important, and paints figures that all genders and races could encounter themselves in. Mimicking snippets of classical painting—from an El Greco hand to a Pietà carry, a crucifixion foot, a Michelangelo muscle group—he is not merely inserting his contemporary identity into art history, but besides opening upward these art historical perspectives for all viewers to connect with." (source)
Website: https://alexgparadise.com/
Instagram: @artposer
Amy Sherald
If her name sounds familiar, it's probably because she painted First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait that at present hangs in the National Gallery….no large deal.
"She is best known for her portrait paintings. Her choices of subjects look to overstate the genre of American fine art historical realism by telling African-American stories inside their own tradition. She is well known for using grisaille to portray skin tones in her piece of work as a mode of challenging the concept of color-equally-race. Her style is simplified realism, involving staged photographs of her subjects." (source)
Sherald is represented past Hauser & Wirth gallery globally.
Website: http://www.amysherald.com/
Instagram: @asherald
Arcmanoro Niles
"A traditionally trained painter, Niles is heavily influenced by fine art history, specifically history painting and portraiture. The poses of his characters and attention to light telephone call to heed classical compositions yet Niles disrupts these standards by using a highly saturated colour palette over orange and blue grounds. Niles has removed neutral colors, blacks, whites, and browns from his palette in lodge to demonstrate the complex skin tones of his subjects while adding a noble glow." - Rachel Uffner (source)
Website: http://world wide web.arcmanoro.com/
Instagram: @arcmanoro
Barthélémy Toguo
"Working across painting, cartoon, sculpture, photography, operation, and installation, Barthélémy Toguo addresses indelible and immediately relevant issues of borders, exile, and displacement. At the core of his practice is the notion of belonging, which stems from his dual French/Cameroonian nationality. Through poetic, hopeful, and oft figural gestures connecting nature with the human being body, Toguo foregrounds concerns with both ecological and societal implications. Recently, his works accept been informed by movements and humanitarian tragedy including #BlackLivesMatter and the refugee crisis." (source)
Website: http://world wide web.barthelemytoguo.com/
Instagram: @barthelemy_toguo
Carrie Mae Weems
Considered ane of the most influential contemporary American artists, Carrie Mae Weems has investigated family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of ability." (source)
"The Kitchen Table Series (1990), is one of Weems' virtually seminal works, and widely considered 1 of the most important bodies of contemporary photography. The series, for which Weems herself posed equally the primary subject, is set at a woman's kitchen table—a domestic stage—revealing intimate moments of her life as the story unfolds." (source)
Weems is represented past Jack Shainman Gallery.
Website: http://carriemaeweems.cyberspace/
Instagram: @carriemaeweems
Chris Ofili
Chris Ofili is a British creative person and winner of the Turner Prize in 1998.
"His works—vibrant, symbolic, and frequently mysterious—describe upon the lush landscapes and local traditions of the island of Trinidad, where he has lived since 2005. Employing a diverse range of aesthetic and cultural sources, including, amidst others, Zimbabwean cave paintings, blaxploitation films, Ovid'south Metamorphoses, and modernist painting, Ofili's work investigates the intersection of desire, identity, and representation." (source)
Ofili is represented by David Zwirner Gallery.
Cinga Samson
Cinga Samson is a South African painter, whose "oil works on sheet manifest echoes of what he describes as the superstitions and spirituality integral to his upbringing in the town of Ethembeni and its surrounding countryside. Desire, aspiration, and celebration of identity drive much of his work, for which he draws inspiration from mode, heritage, and the works of Paul Gauguin and Andrew Wyeth, among others." (source)
"The Cape Town–based artist [Cinga Samson] sets out to create a positive depiction of his generation of youth in South Africa, and the continent at large. It was in reaction to feeling frustrated and preoccupied with the political climate." - Whitewall
Instagram: @cinga_samson
Conrad Egyir
"Addressing contemporary American civilization, biblical parables and Ashanti iconography from his native Ghana, Egyir's piece of work explores questions of ethics, honesty, identity and the social-psychology of community. Monumental, uncanny and often satirically grandiose, the paintings combine the graphic sensuality of Pop Art with the far-reaching narratives of history painting." (source)
Website: https://conradegyir.com/
Instagram: @conrad_egyir
Curtis Talwst Santiago
Curtis Talwst Santiago is a Canadian-Trinidadian artist, who is known for his abstruse figurative drawings as well as "miniature social scenes constructed within jewelry boxes."
"I'1000 non American, but as a person of color living here, this work offered me a manner to get out of America, to explore this imagination and move away from all the trauma art I was making as a reaction to what seemed similar weekly police force killings." - Curtis Talwst Santiago for Bomb
Website: https://www.curtissantiago.art/
Instagram: @talwst
Cy Gavin
"Cy Gavin is an American artist that lives and works in New York. Gavin often incorporates unusual materials in his paintings such as tattoo ink, pinkish sand, diamonds, staples, Bermudiana seeds, and cremains. Gavin as well works in sculpture, performance and video" (source)
"Gavin often paints his bathetic figures using a unique combination of paints that return the subject in "ultra-black" and contrasts the figure'southward austerity with bright, saturated colors for the landscapes and backgrounds." (source)
David Leggett
David Leggett lives and works in LA, his work has been described as "folk art with a gangster lean."
"His piece of work tackles many themes head on; hip-hop, art history, popular culture, sexuality, the racial carve up, and the cocky are all reoccurring subjects. He takes many of my cues from standup comedians, which he listens to while in the studio." (source)
Website: https://davidleggettart.com/abode.html
Instagram: @cocofunhouse
Derek Fordjour
"Fordjour uses imagery of carnivals, sporting contests, casinos, and games to grapple with complex problems similar race and societal inequality in a "visually rich and accessible way."" (source)
"Fordjour belongs to a group of African Americans, in their late thirties and forties, whose inventive approaches to black narratives are revitalizing figurative art, and, in 2019, are achieving unprecedented institutional support and exposure." Financial Times (source)
Instagram: @fordjourstudio
Derrick Adams
"Derrick Adam's multidisciplinary practice engages the ways in which individuals' ideals, aspirations, and personae become attached to specific objects, colors, textures, symbols, and ideologies. His work probes the influence of popular culture on the formation of self-image, and the relationship between man and monument as they coexist and embody one another." (source)
Website: http://www.derrickadams.com/
Instagram: @derrickadamsny
Elias Sime
"Elias Sime is an Ethiopian, multi-disciplinary artist, working primarily in relief sculpture and architecture. For more than xx-v years, the artist has made collage and sculptural assemblage from found objects such as thread, buttons, plastic, animal skins, horn, cloth and bottle tops, alongside organic building materials and binding agents such as mud and straw." (source)
"[Sime] looks by the emotional weighting of new versus onetime, instead finding renewal everywhere, and taking greatest interest in the fashion that objects and ideas tin can connect in new ways." (source)
Forrest Kirk
Forrest Kirk lives and works in LA, painting "figurative oil, acrylic, and mix media works that are steeped in historical and sociopolitical underpinnings within a beautifully painted context." (source)
"Moving fluidly between realism, figuration and pure color and texture, Kirk also incorporates elements of constitute objects, mixed media and collaged segments culled from his own original images. The result is an optical and spatial push-and-pull that keeps the eye from resting, in a poignant corollary to the unsettling narratives in the sociopolitically fraught scenes from literature, history and experience that he depicts, from James Baldwin to modern-day Los Angeles." (source)
Instagram: @forrestkirk
Fred Wilson
"Fred Wilson'due south body of work encompasses sculpture, painting, photography, collage, printmaking, and installation. He is internationally lauded for his conceptual practise that subverts perception, revealing the undercurrents of historical discourse, ownership, and privilege normalized by institutional practices." (source)
His most iconic works are his drinking glass chandeliers (pictured). Wilson represented the United States at the 50th Venice Bienniale.
Gerald Lovell
"Over the final 4 years, Lovell's portraits have become increasingly circuitous, as he has embodied meaning into his usage of altering painting styles, noting how "painting in three dimensions best conveys my narrative. The thicker the paint, the more emphasis on the object." As of late, his use of the impasto painting style has been more than so to emphasize the trunk—applying the interspersed impasto technique equally a variation in a fashion meant to distinguish between the human subjects and the cloth objects in his piece of work." (source)
Lovell lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia.
Instagram: @geraldlovell
Glenn Ligon
Ligon is "all-time known for his text-based paintings, made since the late 1980s, which describe on the writings and speech of diverse figures including Jean Genet, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein and Richard Pryor." (source)
"Through his piece of work he pursues an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across a body of piece of work that builds critically on the legacies of modern painting and more than recent conceptual art." (source)
Website: http://www.glennligonstudio.com/
Instagram: @glennligon
Hank Willis Thomas
"Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual creative person working primarily with themes related to perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture." (source)
"He often incorporates recognizable icons into his work, many from well-known advertising and branding campaigns. On advertising, in an interview with Fourth dimension, Thomas said, "Role of advertising'south success is based on its ability to reinforce generalizations adult around race, gender and ethnicity which are mostly false, but [these generalizations] can sometimes exist entertaining, sometimes truthful, and sometimes horrifying." (source)
Website: https://www.hankwillisthomas.com/
Instagram: @hankwillisthomas
Henry Taylor
"Henry Taylor (b. 1958, Ventura, CA) continues to delve and expand upon the language of portraiture and painting, while also pointing to the social and political issues affecting African Americans today. From racial inequality, homelessness, and poverty, to the importance of family and customs, Taylor says, "My paintings are what I encounter effectually me…they are my landscape paintings." His portraits reveal a fascination with the sitters, equally well every bit with the psychological and physical implications of "space"—public vs. individual, interior vs. exterior." (source)
Instagram: @henrytaylorart
Hew Locke
"Locke explores the languages of colonial and mail service-colonial power, how dissimilar cultures fashion their identities through visual symbols of potency, and how these representations are altered by the passage of time. These explorations take led Locke to a wide range of subject matters, imagery and media, assembling sources across time and infinite in his deeply layered artworks." (source)
Hew Donald Joseph Locke is a British sculptor and contemporary visual artist based in Brixton, London.
Website: http://hewlocke.net/
Jean-Michel Basquiat
"Basquiat'south art focused on dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer feel. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and paradigm, abstraction, figuration, and historical information mixed with gimmicky critique." (source)
"Basquiat used social commentary in his paintings equally a tool for introspection and for identifying with his experiences in the black community of his time, as well every bit attacks on power structures and systems of racism. Basquiat's visual poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle." (source)
Website: http://basquiat.com/
Jordan Casteel
Casteel, born 1989, "has rooted her practice in community date, painting from her own photographs of people she encounters. Posing her subjects within their natural environments, her nearly life-size portraits and cropped "subway" compositions chronicle personal observations of the human experience." (source)
Website: http://www.jordancasteel.com/
Instagram: @jordanmcasteel
Hashemite kingdom of jordan Seaberry
"His large-calibration, imagistic mixed-media paintings accost systemic injustice, family unit wounds, and moving forward. All of those come up into play in his work every bit a community organizer." (source)
Seaberry is not only an creative person but an activist who "built a career equally a grassroots organizer, helping to fight and pass multiple criminal justice reform milestones, including Probation Reform, the Unshackling Pregnant Prisoners Bill, and laying the background for the "Ban the Box" motility hither in Rhode Island." (source)
Website: http://www.jordanseaberry.com/
Instagram: @jordanseaberry
Kambel Smith
"Kambel Smith creates large-calibration sculptures representing iconic works of architecture using paper-thin salvaged from the trash and other discarded materials such as foamcore and paint." (source)
"Smith was diagnosed with Autism when he was eight years old. During the by x years, his father has engaged the artist in daily improvised storytelling, encouraging Smith to participate in the created narrative by making drawings and sculpture." (source)
"He'southward a soldier in a war to alter the autism narrative, and it's working," Lonnie Smith said of Kambel. "What he's washed is shown people that being unlike is non a trouble. That being different is about the new normal." (source)
Instagram: @kambel_smith
Kara Walker
"New York-based artist Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and violence through silhouetted figures that have appeared in numerous exhibitions worldwide." (source)
Website: http://www.karawalkerstudio.com/
Instagram: @kara_walker_official
Kehinde Wiley
"Los Angeles native and New York based visual creative person, Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history's portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists, including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, among others, Wiley, engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic and the sublime in his representation of urban, blackness and dark-brown men found throughout the earth." (source)
He was famously commissioned to create a portrait of President Barack Obama in 2018 that now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery.
Website: https://kehindewiley.com/
Instagram: @kehindewiley
Kerry James Marshall
"Kerry James Marshall uses painting, sculptural installations, collage, video, and photography to comment on the history of black identity both in the United States and in Western art. He is well known for paintings that focus on black subjects historically excluded from the creative canon and has explored issues of race and history through imagery ranging from abstraction to comics." (source)
Instagram: @kerryjamesmarshs
Leonardo Drew
"Leonardo Drew is known for creating contemplative abstruse sculptural works that play upon a tension between order and anarchy. Drew transforms accumulations of raw materials such as wood, scrap metal, and cotton to clear various overlapping themes with emotional gravitas: from the cyclical nature of life and decay to the erosion of fourth dimension. His surfaces often approach a linguistic communication of their ain, embodying the labored process of writing oneself into history." (source)
Website: http://leonardodrew.com/
Instagram: @leonardodrewstudio
Lorna Simpson
"Built-in in Brooklyn, Lorna Simpson came to prominence in the 1980s with her pioneering approach to conceptual photography. Simpson's early work – especially her striking juxtapositions of text and staged images – raised questions about the nature of representation, identity, gender, race, and history that continue to bulldoze the artist's expanding and multi-disciplinary practice today. She deftly explores the medium'due south umbilical relation to memory and history, both key themes within her work." (source)
Website: https://lsimpsonstudio.com/
Instagram: @lornasimpson
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
"Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's oil paintings focus on fictional figures that exist outside of specific times and places. Her paintings are rooted in traditional formal considerations such every bit line, colour, and scale, and can exist self-reflexive about the medium itself, simply the subjects and the way in which the paint is handled is incomparably gimmicky. Her predominantly black cast of characters frequently attracts attention." (source)
Yiadom-Boakye is a British writer and painter who lives and works in the UK.
Instagram: @lynetteyiadomboakye
Marcus Jahmal
"Marcus Jahmal (b. 1990) lives and works in New York. His paintings synthesize a various range of inspirations and autobiography, drawing from photographs, ancient rituals, and personal memories. Developing his compositions direct upon the surface of each canvas, Jahmal coaxes imaginary, all the same uncannily familiar, scenes to life, exploring themes encompassing dreams and folkloric Americana, and the contemporary realities of gentrification and urban center dwelling." (source)
Website: https://www.marcusjahmal.com/
Instagram: @marcusjahmal
Mark Bradford
"Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall-size collages and installations that respond to the impromptu networks—underground economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of abandoned public space—that sally inside a urban center."
Bradford lives and works in LA.
Marlon Mullen
"Marlon Mullen bases his paintings on found photographic images – mostly from lifestyle, news and gimmicky fine art periodicals — which the artist uses every bit a departure point for his subsequent piece of work."
Mullen is autistic or, put another mode, he has autism spectrum disorder and is for the most part non-verbal. Mullen'due south work was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial in New York as well as in SFMOMA's SECA Fine art Awards exhibition.
Meleko Mokgosi
"Meleko Mokgosi'south large-calibration, figurative, and frequently text-based works appoint history painting and cinematic tropes to uncover notions of colonialism, democracy, and liberation across African history." (source)
Mokgosi is likewise an assistant professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Written report at New York University.
Website: http://www.melekomokgosi.com/
Nathaniel Mary Quinn
"In his collage-like composite portraits derived from sources both personal and found, Nathaniel Mary Quinn probes the relationship betwixt visual retention and perception. Fragments of images taken from online sources, fashion magazines, and family unit photographs come together to form hybrid faces and figures that are at in one case neo-Dada and doggedly realist, evoking the intimacy and intensity of a face-to-face run into." (source)
Instagram: @nathanielmaryquinn
Ndidi Emefiele
"Ndidi Emefiele is an artist for whom working with mixed-media means working without restrictions. Built-in in 1987, she is a mixed-media artist and painter." (source)
Instagram: @ndidi_emefiele
Nick Cavern
"Cave is well known for his Soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body, initially created in straight response to the law beating of Rodney King in 1991. Soundsuits cover-up the body, masking and creating a second skin that conceals race, gender and class, forcing the viewer to look without judgment. They serve equally a visual apotheosis of social justice that correspond both brutality and empowerment." (source)
"Throughout his practice, Cave has created spaces of memorial through combining found historical objects with contemporary dialogues on gun violence and decease, underscoring the anxiety of severe trauma brought on by catastrophic loss. Cavern reminds united states, however, that while there may be despair, there remains space for hope and renewal." (source)
Website: https://nickcaveart.com/Main/Intro.html
Instagram: @nickcaveart
Nina Chanel Abney
"Combining representation and brainchild, Nina Chanel Abney's paintings capture the frenetic pace of gimmicky civilisation. Broaching subjects as various equally race, celebrity, religion, politics, sex, and art history, her works eschew linear storytelling in lieu of disjointed narratives. The upshot is data overload, balanced with a kind of spontaneous order, where time and space are compressed and identity is interchangeable. Her distinctively bold style harnesses the flux and simultaneity that has come up to define life in the 21st century." (source)
Website: https://ninachanel.com/
Instagram: @ninachanel
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
"Akunyili Crosby sensitively negotiates the cultural terrain betwixt her adopted home in America and her native Nigeria, creating collage and photo transfer-based paintings that expose the challenges of occupying these two worlds. She has created a sophisticated visual language that pays homage to the history of Western painting while also referencing African cultural traditions. Akunyili Crosby has a striking ability to describe deeply personal imagery that transcends the specificity of individual feel and engages in a global dialogue most trenchant social and political issues." (source)
Website: http://world wide web.njidekaakunyilicrosby.com/
Instagram: @njidekaakunyilicrosby
Noah Davis
"Noah Davis'due south paintings aimed to capture Black people in their ordinary life, contrasting gild's narrative of guns, drugs, and violence which is also often the default." (source)
Noah Davis was an American artist who was built-in in 1983 and died in 2015 at the young age of 32 from cancer. He founded The Cloak-and-dagger Museum in LA, a black-owned-and-operated fine art space dedicated to the exhibition of museum-quality art in a culturally underserved African American and Latinx neighborhood in Los Angeles.
Rashid Johnson
"Johnson's work is known for its narrative embedding of a pointed range of everyday materials and objects, often associated with his childhood and ofttimes referencing collective aspects of African American intellectual history and cultural identity. To appointment, Johnson has incorporated elements / materials / items equally diverse every bit CB radios, shea butter, literature, record covers, gilded rocks, black soap and tropical plants. Many of Johnson'southward works convey rhythms of the occult and mystic: evoking his want to transform and aggrandize each included object's field of clan in the procedure of reception." (source)
Instagram: @rashidjohnson
Serge Alain Nitegeka
"Influenced by his early feel as a refugee, Nitegeka produces works that address issues of identity sparked past forced migration and cultural and political borders. His installations present obstacles that promote participation in this metaphoric experience: they physically bisect 3-dimensional space and apply the viewer as a further disruptive variable, resulting in a tableau vivant of sorts. Serge'due south astute, investigatory aesthetic sense places him inside the rich fine art historical cadre of minimalism and abstraction, while the larger concepts he tackles resonate in the temper of today'southward global politics." (source)
Simone Leigh
"Leigh works primarily with sculpture, installation, and video, as well as with Social Exercise, to foreground black female experience. Frequently combining premodern techniques and materials—including lost-wax casting, table salt-fired ceramics, and terracotta—with stiff cultural iconographies such as cowrie shells, plantains, and tobacco leaves, Leigh creates objects and environments that reframe stereotypes associated with black women and celebrate black life." (source)
Instagram: @simoneyvetteleigh
Stanley Whitney
"Stanley Whitney has been exploring the formal possibilities of colour within always-shifting grids of multi-hued blocks and all-over fields of gestural marks and passages, since the mid-1970s. His electric current motif, honed over many years, is the stacked composition of numerous saturated color fields, delineated by between iii to five horizontal bands running the length of a square-formatted canvass. Taking his cues from early on Minimalism, Color Field painters, jazz music and his favourite historical artists – Titian, Velázquez and Cézanne amongst them – Whitney is equally much an exponent of the process-based, spatially-gridded square in art as Josef Albers, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin and Carl Andre." (source)
Suzanne Jackson
Jackson is known for 'painting without a sheet.' "Congenital upward in layers of pure acrylic, Jackson'due south jumbo "anti-canvases" are partially structured with netting, rods, and paper fragments, and strewn with cast-off color and other prosaic elements: peanut shells, bamboo, bells, loquat seeds, leather string. The artist's handmade gestural impressions—pinching, crimping, and pleating—occur within a material transparency that lends each limerick a uniquely lyrical and luminous dimensionality." (source)
Instagram: @suzannejackson7268
Toyin Ojih Odutola
"Toyin Ojih Odutola (b.1985 in Ile-Ife, Nigeria; lives and works in New York, NY) is best known for her multimedia drawings and works on paper, which explore the malleability of identity and the possibilities in visual story-telling. Interested in the topography of skin, Ojih Odutola has a distinctive fashion of mark-making using but basic cartoon materials, such every bit ballpoint pens, pencils, pastels and charcoal. This signature technique involves building up of layers on the folio, through blending and shading with the highest level of detail, creating compositions that reinvent and reinterpret the traditions of portraiture." (source)
Website: https://toyinojihodutola.com/
Instagram: @toyinojihodutola
Trenton Doyle Hancock
"For almost two decades, Trenton Doyle Hancock has been constructing his own fantastical narrative that continues to develop and inform his prolific artistic output. Office fictional, part autobiographical, Hancock's work pulls from his own personal experience, art historical catechism, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad pop culture references, resulting in a complex amalgamation of characters and plots possessing universal concepts of light and nighttime, good and evil, and all the grey in between." (source)
Trenton Doyle Hancock's fictional, comic-inspired characters from The Moundverse illustrate his experience as a Black youth in rural Texas
Website: https://www.mindofthemound.com/
Instagram: @trenton_doyle_hancock
Tschabalala Self
"Tschabalala Self builds a singular fashion from the syncretic utilise of both painting and printmaking to explore ideas about the black female trunk. The creative person constructs exaggerated depictions of female person bodies using a combination of sewn, printed, and painted materials, traversing different creative and arts and crafts traditions. The exaggerated biological characteristics of her figures reflect Self's ain experiences and cultural attitudes toward race and gender." (source)
Website: https://tschabalalaself.com/
Instagram: @tschabalalaself
Vanessa German language
"Vanessa High german is an American sculptor, painter, writer, activist, performer, and poet. Her sculpture ofttimes includes assembled statues of female figures created with their heads/ faces painted black and a wide range of attached objects flowing outward including fabric, keys, found objects, and toy weapons. German serves as an activist addressing problems such every bit gun violence and prostitution." (source)
Vanessa German works and lives in Philadelphia. She is the founder of the ARThouse, a community arts initiative for the children of Homewood. (source)
Instagram: @vanessalgerman
Vaughn Spann
"Vaughn Spann devotes his exercise to abstraction and figuration as an investigation into infinite, time and memory. He locates subjects from deeply personal spaces as he reconciles with his body within and out of the studio. With a deep admiration for formalism, he enjoys approaching paintings through the lens of color, line, and shape, but seemingly understands that 1'south subjectivity tin't simply be divorced from the studio." (source)
Vaughn Spann's abstruse and figurative works are subtle manifestations of deeper musings Spann has as a Blackness American human being. Vaughn is a Studio Fellow at NXTHVN, the New Haven nonprofit arts incubator co-founded by his mentor, artist Titus Kaphar.
Website: https://www.vaughnspann.com/
Instagram: @vaughnspann
Woody De Othello
"Woody De Othello's sculptures have the disconcerting quality of jokes with serious implications. While ostensibly figurative, his subject thing spans household objects, the natural world, and qualities of the torso." - Karma Gallery
Website: http://woodyothello.com/
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