Some close ups and studio shots to give you some perspective on the sizes of some of the pieces.

More at the end

Here is some more for you all to check out, these pieces are also from this semester. Had to work hard and I feel like I had a pretty good output. The one thing that sucks about some of the images is that the colors can never really come close to what they look like in person. The painting with Ali at the bottom of this post was one of the last paintings I finished this semester, I will put detail images of this painting and others in the next post.

If you don't know now you know!

First Year at Yale done

So here are some new works from this past semester and I will post more after this is published. This first year has helped me to grow in my exploration and the resources at YALE are unlimited to say the least. So take a look at the work, leave a response and we can have a dialogue about the pieces in this post as well as the next.

Peace, love and afro grease!

A Long time

It has been so long since I posted anything and I apologize for that. Grad school and artistic rhetoric keep me busy. Any way this painting is titled " One day in the land of Milk and Honey", it may seem that this is in some way connected to the Trayvon Martin situation but this was created before that. Although that read of the work is an interesting conversation I hope that the painting extends beyond that to a very large and historical context. It is very upsetting though to think that a negative transformation of an object can be contextualized by the simple fact that it has come in contact with a Black body. I almost forgot I just recently received a scholarship from the national cowboy museum and I want to thank everyone who wrote a letter of recommendation for me and that I got a little dough for their efforts lol. I will post that scholarship stuff in a later post.

peace, love and afro grease

Detroit Grown

Detroit is a beautiful place to make ones drive exceed the rest. When your from this place you truly know what hard work is and you understand the dichotomy of rich and poor. I love my city.

Fear

These are really small paintings dealing with fear and identity.

Getting into the flow

These are some other paintings and a drawing I did over the semester. More like finished studies.