
Untitled #9
Watercolor, oil pastel, oil paint on Arches paper
30" x 22"
Untitled #10
Oil stick and graphite on 300lb watercolor paper
31 x 22 in.
36 x 28 in framed
Untitled #11
Oil stick and graphite on 300lb watercolor paper
31 x 22 in.
36 x 28 in framed
Untitled
Oil on canvas
40" x 70"
Mended
Watercolor,oil stick, and graphite on paper
30″x 22″
Grandma’s Legs
Watercolor, oil stick, graphite, and crayon paper
36″ x 28″ framed
Untitled (1)
Watercolor and oil stick on paper
30″ x 22″ framed
Untitled (2)
Watercolor, oil stick, graphite and crayon on paper
36″ x 28″ framed
in bell hooks' essay, “Homeplace”, she writes, “I want to remember these black women today. The act of remembrance is a conscious gesture honoring their struggle, their effort to keep something for their own.” i like to characterize my paintings as abstract storytelling. i am telling Black women that i see them–i see their emotional journeys–letting them know that i am mapping our stories. the narratives in my paintings begin with my own emotional trajectories—then, they become culturally shared experiences of Black women who are painstakingly trying to keep ‘something’ for themselves. we want self-love. we want reprieve. we want resolve. we want to be free from the casualty of masking ourselves for society and cultural expectations. my paintings honor the struggles of Black women healing from the denial of suffrage that benefited other people and not ourselves.
i am a recent Pratt Institute, MFA Alumni.
i was born and bred in Baltimore, MD.
i lived in Brooklyn until 2018.
i now live in Bloomfield, NJ with my wife.