Pain Monsters
These artworks are made with the idea to combat my chronic pain. These art monsters appear when I am overwhelmed with pain, which is all of the time. However, I do my best to use my creativity to deal with with these emotions through artmaking.
Learn more about my work here: www.canva.com/design/DAETz8JBeAo/YzkY8C512_2T9hJ9hUVB1w/view?website#4 |
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Davinci Art Alliance: Artist Residency
Ode to Philadelphia Street Vendors 2023
These series of drawings are inspired and an ode to the Black and Brown peoples of Philadelphia who sell and offer their services as street vendors, service men and women, streets sales peoples who’s entrepreneurship, hustle and innovation have sustained all of us through our daily wants and needs.
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To Learn more about the original Cries of Philadelphia 1850 pamphlet visit this link below:
digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/1091
To hear me speak about this series of work check out theses links below:
drive.google.com/file/d/1WnQuMdickhBI9PTlDK83cJiuIk-qAxwU/view?usp=drive_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qUAW5le1DZbPV9tUGLStbozkITX0c3tk/view?usp=drive_link
drive.google.com/file/d/1VO5U6UZ8LFLMn1HRGLC32jmVsyDEbvOM/view?usp=drive_link
Common Space/ Espacio Exhibition
Amber Arts 10th Anniversary
ICE BOX Project-Philadelphia
The exhibition dives into themes that resonate with all of us, including communality, history, memory, collaboration, and investment in community voices. But it’s not just about the past; the show explores the timeless human act of gathering, sharing a meal, and exchanging ideas.
My artwork in the exhibition contribute to the visual landscape of Philadelphia. I have been examining the connections of trash, place and dumping of culture symbolized by the issue of pollution and illegal dumping in and around Philadelphia. Here in this painting I am using color, saturation and shape to create a space that may be familiar. While looking at the piece; think about where you are as the viewer.
Learn more about the exhibition here: www.muralarts.org/blog/common-space-espacio-comun-celebrating-a-decade-of-creativity-with-amber-art-design/
Listen to me speak more about this artwork here: drive.google.com/file/d/1bvEM3GG4PTgX8Gn2QwbEL84TpiypO_kV/view?usp=sharing
My artwork in the exhibition contribute to the visual landscape of Philadelphia. I have been examining the connections of trash, place and dumping of culture symbolized by the issue of pollution and illegal dumping in and around Philadelphia. Here in this painting I am using color, saturation and shape to create a space that may be familiar. While looking at the piece; think about where you are as the viewer.
Learn more about the exhibition here: www.muralarts.org/blog/common-space-espacio-comun-celebrating-a-decade-of-creativity-with-amber-art-design/
Listen to me speak more about this artwork here: drive.google.com/file/d/1bvEM3GG4PTgX8Gn2QwbEL84TpiypO_kV/view?usp=sharing
As a young child my parents would foster my creativity by giving me beautifully illustrated children's bools that I cherish today. One of those books was called, The People Could Fly, an anthology of African American folklore written by Virginia Hamilton. Reading, writing and research have always been a part of my inspiration process as a visual artists
In one of the stories it told of enslaved Africans that one day just lifted in the air and flew off of the plantation. In this new painting I thought of the "Weight Of It All" The weight that a=has been place on the Black body on this planet. I envisioned this story further to think if Black people could fly and no one knew about it.
This artwork speaks to the urning of weightlessness. To not have to hold the world's weight at least without my consent. These Black bodies are swirling and twirling in the sky on their own time only concerned with how to soar higher.
In one of the stories it told of enslaved Africans that one day just lifted in the air and flew off of the plantation. In this new painting I thought of the "Weight Of It All" The weight that a=has been place on the Black body on this planet. I envisioned this story further to think if Black people could fly and no one knew about it.
This artwork speaks to the urning of weightlessness. To not have to hold the world's weight at least without my consent. These Black bodies are swirling and twirling in the sky on their own time only concerned with how to soar higher.
NoName Gallery- Philadelphia
Exhibition for Artist Of NW Philadelphia
These new paintings are form my group exhibition with NoName Gallery in Philadelphia. These artworks were created in a space of self preservation as I recover from the constant disrespect and bombardment of pressures as a Black Women.
Every second is a fight. A fight to smile, a fight to be, a fight to live. At many times I am fighting for my ancestors. In this present time I am also fighting for me for my future me. I am choosing to let me artwork talk, pray and let God do the rest. A lyric I love form rapper Lil' Wayne.
I currently have a series of 6, however I would like to continue to expand to possibly 30, so I can arrange them in various ways. I am going to continue to create artwork to resolve this feeling and further peruse expressing my humanity that is not considered on a daily bases no matter how many DEI webinars folks go to. Or no matter how many core values you write. As a Black women battling the exploitation and disrespect is an job in itself.
Every second is a fight. A fight to smile, a fight to be, a fight to live. At many times I am fighting for my ancestors. In this present time I am also fighting for me for my future me. I am choosing to let me artwork talk, pray and let God do the rest. A lyric I love form rapper Lil' Wayne.
I currently have a series of 6, however I would like to continue to expand to possibly 30, so I can arrange them in various ways. I am going to continue to create artwork to resolve this feeling and further peruse expressing my humanity that is not considered on a daily bases no matter how many DEI webinars folks go to. Or no matter how many core values you write. As a Black women battling the exploitation and disrespect is an job in itself.
Davinci Art Alliance:
Inside Out, Upside Down, and Sideways During this exhibition I was able to share a budding series that I have been working on to decipher my urban landscape using texture, shape, form and color as spatial language. I am very much interested in landscape, ecology and memory within placemaking. Through these forms and volumes I hope to convey a spatial nostalgia in which I live within.
I am also interested in a visual vernacular when it comes to space, place and urban landscapes. Urban landscapes offer a lot more than than just cubes, rectangles and concrete. Through my close observations and techniques I try to reveal the beauty, tenacity and layers of life within the spirit and conversations of these landscape. This paining has a sibling that comes with it. I will update this image. Learn more about the exhibition here: davinciartalliance.org/inside-out-upside-down-and-sideways?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=65b538cd49e3923f76ea5504&ss_email_id=65b7ef37754f3839740b263b&ss_campaign_name=%F0%9F%8E%AF+Our+February+Exhibitions%21&ss_campaign_sent_date=2024-01-29T18%3A32%3A53Z |
Philadelphia Black History:
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