Artist Statement
If I love you, I want you to see what I see. Your story is not only worth telling but being remembered.
My artwork is a story constructed in collaboration. It is a shared mythic retelling of my subjects portrayed as powerful and apotheosized rendered in a range from realism to abstraction. The goal of their portrait is to immortalize their personal, cultural, spiritual, and botanical background. I utilize Black American regional social and familial norms, African diasporic literature, symbols, folkways, and fauna to reference our shared cultural and spiritual histories. The retelling is a gift, an expression of love, and a reckoning with the finality of life.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Traces of My Spirit, Mehari Sequar Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2017
When Watching God, Gallery 102- George Washington University, Washington D.C. Spirit Rises, Congress Heights Arts and Culture Center, Washington D.C.
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 Down In My Soul: Ancestors, Rituals, and Contemporary Practice (with Lionel Frazier White III), Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC (Curated Terence Nicholson)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
All That Remains, RESIDUE, The Bishop Gallery, New York (curated Luz Harmon)
All That Carrying On, The King Street Gallery, Silver Spring Maryland (curated by Michael Booker)
2023 U.S Department of State | Art in Embassies | Embassy Abidjan, Cote D’ivoire (curated by Imitaz Hafiz and Morgan Fox) 2022
DC Art Now 2022, DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC (The Nicholson Project) The Ties That Bind, IA&A Hillyer Art Gallery, Washington, DC (curated by Jarvis Dubois and Lauren Davidson) Rooted in Voyage, Band of Vices coLab, Los Angeles, California (curated by Thomas James)
2021 Repercussions: Redefining The Black Aesthetic, Eubie Blake Center, Baltimore, Maryland (curated by Thomas James)
2020 Cold hands, Warm heart: Myths of Black Womanhood, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, Maryland (curated by Deidre Darden)
2019 Pulling Together The Art of Teachers, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington DC (curated by Marta Stewart)
2018
Bright Futures, Studio Gallery, Washington DC 2018 We Got Next, DC Commission of Arts and Humanities, Washington D.C (curated by Deidre Darden) Elements that Define Us, Prince George's African American Museum and Cultural Center, North Brentwood, Maryland (curated by Martina Dodd)
Blackbird Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center, Baltimore, Maryland (curated by Alexis Dixon)
2017 Transformer 13th Annual Silent Auction and Benefit Party, Transformer Gallery/Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington D.C.
2016 Art on the Vine, (curated by Jessica Stafford Davis feat. artists, Alexandria Smith, Charles Philippe Jean Pierre, David Antonia Cruz, Holly Bass, Jamea Richmond Edwards, Lina Iris Viktor, Nate Lewis, Vanessa German), Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
Exhibitions from 2015- 2016 omitted for brevity
MEDIA
2021
February Issue: East of the River Cover Image and Article
Washington Post Exhibition Review
February Issue: East of the River Cover Image and Article
2019 Brightest Young Things Feature: What it Means To Be An Artist and Art Teacher with Asha Elana Casey
2018 Brightest Young Things Feature: Inside the Artist Studio Asha Elana Casey
2017
Washington Post Exhibition Review
Bmore Arts: Painting Ritual, and Other Worlds
2016 Washington City Paper: Art in Search of Redemption
TELEVISION/ VIDEO
2022 Ties That Bind, Artist Talk, Hillyer Art Gallery, Youtube
2020 Really Love Film; Netflix
2018
Spirit Rises, Interview with Angela Carroll, Youtube
NBC Interview; Elements that Define Us, Prince George's African American Museum and Cultural Center, North Brentwood, Maryland (curated by Martina Dodd)
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2022 Art & The Ecstatic, National Museum of Women In The Arts, Washington, DC
2019 Torpedo Talks- Black Women Artists Matter, Fairfax Virginia
COLLECTIONS
2022 DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities
Prominent Private Collections
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2021 The Nicholson Project: Digital Artist Residency
2011 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, Colorado