MY INSPIRATION

Artist Statement:

I'm striving to make art that creates a response and evokes a challenge that is desperately needed.  My stylized work revolves around showcasing excellence and promoting a cultural healing. There is a constant push for love and rebuilding in my work because of past mishappenings and an un-natural current setting. My imagery has intense color and a sense of emergency indicative of what is needed for rebuilding a cultural lobotomy. 

My figurative paintings attempt to push specific scenarios through subject matter that is provocative and sometimes uncomfortable. The act of painting for me is about problem solving, showcasing, story telling, and beauty. Equity and equality is a very important component in my community so I am always speaking to these elements and dynamic.

I have a strong connection with sculpture, architecture and structural engineering as much as I am connected to painters like Kerry James Marshall, Oliver Lee Jackson and Sandro Chia. Because I am an untold story teller and history painter, there is a strong need to produce paintings that reflect my passion.   This will always be the case because it is what moves me. Like in the film “Sankofa” it is imperative that I continue to pursue my purpose because the ancestors need to know that I am continuing this mission.

All paintings are oil on canvas.

Palace of the Legion of Honor

Crocker Museum of Art

Stedelijk Museum of Schiedam

Rotterdam Art Center

Goldman Sachs

Health America

Fairmont Hotels

American Cancer Society

Danny Glover

Modesto Lanzone

Roselyn Swig

Rob Levinson

Candice Michelle Fort

Judith Friedericy

Harriet Rohmer

Miriam Anton

Cecile Maybach

CH & Diane Ozbun

Steven Firestone

Ashaki Bomani

Sharada Maraj

Eric Mingo

LD Lott

Ruben Ruiz

Rachelle Shelton

Lachelle Shelton

Anissa Love

Brandon Green

Jackie Turner

Kassandra Harper-Cotton

Tony Smith

Jasmine & Clinton Dixon

Nicholas Gordon

Josefina Sanchez