The different offshoots of Tadáskía’s work share a throughline in her affinity with drawing. Simultaneously markings and erasures, her traces in dry pastels, colored pencil, pen or nail polish create graphic tangles that evoke fluttering beings without turning them recognizable. The torn edges of her paper supports lend a sense of continuity, like an unbound…
Denise Stephanie Hewitt is a Brooklyn-born photographer and Gordon Parks Foundation Scholar. Beginning her career with a Marie Claire Magazine Cover during her apprenticeship at Red Hook Labs Photography Studio, Hewitt’s practice merges fashion, editorial, and documentary styles that center black and brown leaders, heritage, and beauty. Her portraits have graced Essence Magazine, Cultured Magazine,…
Rugiyatou Ylva Jallow (b.1990 in Stockholm, Sweden), currently residing in Los Angeles, is a Swedish-Gambian visual artist known primarily for her work with acrylic and oil paint. Her bold self-portraits ensnare emotivity as each layer resonates the artist’s internal and outward strugglewith feeling distanced from the world around her as she tries to reconcile the…
Kelly Sinnapah Mary creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that draw upon the complex interrelationships between folklore, literature, inheritance, history, and the natural world. Sinnapah Mary’s work is rooted both materially and narratively in the artist’s immediate environment of the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, a French overseas department, and her own evolving understanding of her ancestral…
Renluka Maharaj was born in Trinidad and Tobago and works between Colorado, New York City andTrinidad. She attended the University of Colorado, Boulder where she earned her BFA, and her MFAat The School Of The Art Institute of Chicago in. She has received numerous awards includingMartha Kate Thomas Fund, the Presidential Scholarship at Anderson Ranch…
Portugal based sculptor Frida Baranek was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1961. She earned an M.A. in Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins in London in 2012 and a B.A. in Architecture at Santa Ursula’s University in Rio de Janeiro (1984). In 2013, she was a recipient of a mid-career survey “Confrontos” at…
Lewinale Havette (b. 1990, Monrovia, Liberia) is a Liberian-born, Atlanta-based painter whose work reflects themes of African spirituality, migration, and fema identity. Influenced by her Liberian heritage and personal journey, Havette blen abstract painting with portraiture to depict stories of displacement, resilience, and cultural heritage. Her art often includes water deities and ancient prophetesses, highlighting…
Rajyashri Goody was born in 1990 in Pune, India. She lives and works between the Netherlands and India. Goody completed her BA in Sociology at Fergusson College in Pune in 2011, and an MA in Visual Anthropology at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK in 2013. In 2023, she…
Gio Swaby is a Bahamian interdisciplinary visual artist currently represented by Claire Oliver Gallery. She is known for her textile portraits that explore and celebrate Blackness. With a multimedia practice that encompasses textile, installation, collage, performance and video, Swaby has exhibited in several galleries and museums including Claire Oliver Gallery in New York City, Die…
A’Driane Nieves was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1982. A visual artist and writer, A’Driane Nieves founded Tessera Arts Collective, an arts nonprofit, in 2018, and subsequently launched an art magazine. Nieves is a self-taught painter of over a decade. At the urging of her therapist, she began using painting as a form of…