ART EXHIBIT

Artist Statement:

As an artist, I create work that engages with the ideas of oppression, liberation, and the friction between the two. Furthermore, my body of work is intended to be a revolutionary endeavor that contributes to the vast history of arts based activism.

My body of work centers the human figure and portraiture, where I find inspiration to explore the human condition, and how it is affected by struggle, tragedy, and joy. My art practice prioritizes the depiction of people from underrepresented communities in our society. As a Black Queer man, I hope my work empowers others, and gives disenfranchised communities voices on their own terms, not the terms projected onto them.

This is reflected in my recent solo Exhibition “INNERMOST” which seeked to explore portraiture, identity, and documentation. As an exhibition, INNERMOST grappled with the historical canon of portraiture, by depicting a variety of sitters whose likeness is often absent within the canon of fine art.

In essence, my artwork seeks to grapple with our struggles toward a fair and just world, including depictions of our attempts, our shortcomings, our failures, and our successes.