me painting live
Artist Statement
"i do not attempt to be a particular type of artist. i
create in any medium based on my current inspiration. everyone and everything i
encounter has the potential to become art”. rarely will the global female
figures i portray be in conjunction with another. i attempt to divulge who we
are in our solitary moments , inside our own skin, inside our own minds and
deep within our psyche . expose the unrevealed portions of our inner workings that
we rarely serve up to others. show women and girls as we are in spirit. what
does the spirit of a women look like when interpreted as living and inanimate
objects and thoughts? understanding the dynamics of a solitary figure in
relationship to very little or nothing at all. it is my intention to show the everyday woman as an icon. my
art may come across as unpredictable but it is my wish that i retain my
childlike wonder.
for the majority of my life i have pursued my visual art talents and somewhere along the line found I have the gift to alchemize words into something phenomenal others want to read. the process of writing for me is a wish, a meditation and a prayer all rolled into one. i fell in love with the limitations and opportunities found within the traditions of haiku, however, i also write in free form.
for the majority of my life i have pursued my visual art talents and somewhere along the line found I have the gift to alchemize words into something phenomenal others want to read. the process of writing for me is a wish, a meditation and a prayer all rolled into one. i fell in love with the limitations and opportunities found within the traditions of haiku, however, i also write in free form.
UPCOMING ART EXHIBITIONS:
coming in 2013
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
"Sankofa: Go Back and Retrieve" Mark Squared Creativity Unboxed, Clarkston, Ga April 12, 2012
"Munecas de Chocolate y Papel " (chocolate paper dolls) with Starchia at Southwest Arts Center, Atlanta, Ga February 2012 -March 2012
"Erotic Factotum" Private Showing December 11, 2011 Cloud IX, Atlanta, GA
"Ephemera: If Walls Could Talk" Marlee's Coffee House September 2, 2011
Busboys and Poets Hyattsville, MD August 2011- February 2012
"Return of the Wax" Pal's Lounge Atlanta, Ga August 2011
"All Things Lost And Found Again" Blue Coffee Cafe, Durham, NC July 2011
"Put The Needle On The Record" Urban Grind Coffee House July 2011
"Envisage: A Moment Conceived in Time" Porter Sanford Performing Community Center 2011
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
"Nostalgia" Porter Sanford performing Arts Center as part of the Ebony Stitcher's Quilt Exhibit, Atlanta, Ga, July 2012
"Deep Throat: Artistic Smut ARTSHOW" MOMA DC, March 8, 2012
"Deep Roots. Fallen Leaves" February 18, 2012, Southwest Arts Center
"Camouflage" Group Exhibit Southwest Arts Center, Atlanta, GA November 12, 2011
"Dream Sequence" Group Exhibit, Southwest Arts Center, Atlanta, Ga September 2011
"Midnight Erotica" Group Exhibit Atlanta, Ga August 27-28, 2011
"Dissecting Compositions" Group Show Southwest Arts Center Atlanta, Ga August 2011
" Quilt Exhibition-Fabrics of the World" Porter Sanford Performing Arts Community Center July 2011 as part of a larger exhibit by the Ebony Stitchers Quilt Guild
"Quilt Series" Art on 5 2008
CURATING
"Womb(b)man" March 2012
"little orange box" July 2012
IN THE COLLECTION OF:
"the girls", "the boys" quilt Dr. Karen Moore
"healing wings" quilt National Cervical Cancer Coalition
"normal people scare me" quilt Sheena M. Earl, Sawrt
"scientifically speaking" quilt Rebecca Skloot, Author of the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack
"brick chicks" quilt Lisa Diane White, Sisterlove, Inc.
"dip" painting David Manuel, Director, Porter Sanford Performing Arts Center
"i came to dance" painting Anana Harris Parris, Afrisalsa, Niarasoap
"dragonfly in mid transition" painting Anthony "Sleepy Eyez" Carter & Sabrina Carter
"me before my morning coffee" painting Cassandra, owner of Urban Grind
"coffee house jazz improv" painting Gwendolyn Mathews, Owner Blue Coffee Cafe
"suspended in blue" painting Gary Donaldson, Owner, Marlee's Coffeehouse
"where flowers are born" painting Ashley Peoples, CEO, Publik Transit Studios
"lola and the ancestors" painting Karen Clarice Hayes
"the guitar leads, i follow" painting Ken J. Martin, Muscian & community Leader
"cosmosia" painting Theresa Davis, Poet & Educator
"she as earth" painting Andrea Knight
"she as earth" & "she as fire" paintings Twin Spirit, Music Artist
"she brings the universe" mixed media International Museum of Women
"totem" mixed media painting Brian Hebert, Curator SW Arts Center
"vigil aunties" mixed media painting Sigrid Hall, Director of Publications WS State
"continual harvest" painting Karen Patton, Owner, Sweet Potato Cafe
"deep roots, ripe harvest" painting Karen Patton, Owner, Sweet Potato Cafe
"she peacock" painting Kevin Kamara, Owner, Live Tech On Demand
"delicious" painting Phillip Boykin, Actor and Thespian, Porgy and Bess on Broadway
"her skirts held a secret" painting, Imani Evans, Women Healing Women
"they call her cosmic" painting The Erin Hill Band
