“Angel Landing” Takes Flight

“Angel Landing” Takes Flight

“Angel Landing” Takes Flight “Visible Man: Art and Black Male Subjectivity” My painting “Angel Landing” will be featured in a riveting exhibition titled Visible Man: Art and Black Male Subjectivity. The curator is the inimitable artist and scholar Michael...
We Are Mourning. We Are Hoping.

We Are Mourning. We Are Hoping.

We Are Mourning. We Are Hoping. The end of a 17-hour Live Painting Performance and Installation that I launched at my university in response to an outbreak of racist activity on my campus. The public destruction of the portrait of Trayvon Martin was as important as...
Breathe

Breathe

Breathe; (art) charcoal and colored pencil on gesso board, 24 x 18 in, 2020 Breathe; (music) written by Dr. Imo Nse Imeh; musical arrangement by Bruce Yelle Breathe My drawing “Breathe” is now part of the permanent collection of the University Museum of...
Studies In Black

Studies In Black

Studies In Black Over the past few years I have been experimenting more with inks in my larger works. I enjoy the tensions that the ink medium creates in my paintings. I find the collaboration of the illusionistic, volumetric, weighty bodies that I draw and paint...
The Story of Suicide Girl

The Story of Suicide Girl

The Story of Suicide Girl This work addresses the issue of suicide—both in the literal sense, and in the more conceptual sense—of black girls. Here, the main subject is a black girl who appears in two instances—first as a figure who has just decapitated a girl, and...
The Angels of 17 Years Boy

The Angels of 17 Years Boy

The Angels of 17 Years BoySep 24, 2020 This body of work conceptualizes the angel as a large, brown-skinned being, who is in various stages of appearing (or becoming). The figure is seemingly transfixed by the sight or idea of something that he is witnessing. He...