First big show that I put on! huge step in my art career, as part of “Melanated Angst” Art Show with @classicelisha (IG)
Fed Up
FED UP is an examination of the status quo and surviving under the shadow of an imperialist beast that I have named the Chimerica. Chimerica, like a chimera, is a beast of many parts, but instead is fueled by the bloodlust of the American Dream. Throughout the series, one is confronted with the many atrocities conducted under the guise of freedom. In all of these paintings, Gluttony is allegorical of capitalism, genocide, imperialism, and a few other ‘isms.’
100 years ago the spectacle of lynching was treated as a fun family outing, often accompanied by picnic baskets and souvenirs (The souvenirs were not uncommonly body parts of the tortured and lynched.). Today, the grotesque American need to perpetuate the destruction of Black bodies has if anything risen in volume through state-sanctioned violence.
Granted, things have been cleaned up; traded the white cloaks for blue uniforms. Through reforms and rebranding, the public is conditioned to accept today’s more palatable lynching methods. The series of “Doughnooses” are all woven of the past and present history of extrajudicial killing.
I enjoy including humor, cultural and historical references, and easter eggs in my work. I hope you spend time with the details of each piece and peel back the layers and seek the gags and other treasures.
Chimerica’s Last Meal 2018 Oil on panel (37” x 28”) EMAIL if interested in purchasing prints or the original!
FFFTTTPPP 2018 Oil and Acrylic on Canvas (15” x 15”)
Doughnoose I - Good O’l Boys 2018 Ink and Watercolor on Paper (11” x 17”)
Doughnoose V - Strange Fruit 2018 Ink and Watercolor on Paper (11” x 17”)
Doughnoose VI - Protected and Served to Extinction 2018 Ink and Watercolor on Paper (11” x 17”)
Doughnoose II - Youth Medium 2018 Ink and Watercolor on Paper (11” x 17”)
Doughnoose VII - Turn Us All Into Hashtags 2018 Ink and Watercolor on Paper (11” x 17”)
1 = 100, Acrylic on Canvas 8” x 12” 2021. Sold
Magical Negr-O’s & Fascist Flakes,
Digital paintings, originally printed on 7 x 5 Vinyl Banner. 2022
There are scores of synonyms for “black” that carry negative connotations. And just as many for “Black people.” This piece is about how subjugation mutates through words and subliminal imagery. Notably, the featured character specifically resembles Mickey Mouse, a direct descent of blackface & minstrelsy.
