Gavin Benjamin is a multifaceted artist who combines original analog photography and appropriated images with collage, paint, and varnish to create rich and luxurious works that call back to baroque traditions while incorporating elements of current culture to provoke, critique, and explore. Born in Guyana, South America and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Benjamin received…
Tasanee Durrett (1994) is a visual artist, originally from Chicago, who lives and works in Orlando, Florida. Throughout her years of college at the University of Arizona (2017), she studied architecture where the Black human experience became influential. After escaping an abusive relationship of eight years, she began translating her architectural influences through painting. Durrett’s…
Charles Mason III (Baltimore, MD) received his AA degree from CCBC, BFA from University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and MFA in Studio Art from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), 2019. He has curated several shows in Baltimore and Philadelphia as well as had solo shows which include Screaming in Silence, My Salvation…
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku (b.1994, Cape Coast) is a contemporary Ghanaian Textile Abstractionist. Born in the central region of Ghana, the artist’s early years were exposed to the rich culture and lustrous congruence of traditions of the Fante Tribe which influenced his ideals of freedom as a way of life, not an inheritance. With a background…
Selloane Moeti’s paintings weave multiple narratives and cultural references that are drawn from cleansing and healing, dislocation and relocation, and her own ongoing attempts at tracing and understanding her lineage as a Mosotho woman. Moeti paints with Imbomvu, a red clay that is used by African women to protect their skin from the sun while cultivating crops and it…
Bailey is a self-realized interior designer and installation artist. Her hand-painted murals, bespoke furniture, and artwork have garnered national attention from renowned design institutions and publications such as Elle Décor, House Beautiful, and Architectural Digest. Bailey began to immerse herself in her works as a visual artist after EGOT Winner Whoopi Goldberg purchased two of…
Like renowned artist and former NFL player Ernie Barnes, Brian has been able to translate his discipline as a former NFL player into his passion for creating art. Growing up with an African-American father and an Italian-American mother in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s, Brian knows first-hand the nuances of how words,…
Maxine Walters Artist, author, art director, songwriter, DJ and sought after film line producer is at heart a visual artist, with a keen interest in assemblage art. This is evident in the work she makes, collects and the projects she art directs. Her calling started as a teen with an A1 Distinction in Art and…
Kraig Yearwood is a Barbadian artist and designer. He studied Graphic Design at the Barbados Community College (BCC) and now makes drawings, painting, prints and sculptures and is the owner/designer of the accessories label Stuff. Yearwood has had six solo shows and has participated in group exhibitions both locally and internationally. He says his approach to making is…
