PAINTINGS

Current and recently completed works.

MASSACRE AT THE CROSSROADS

(2022) Watercolor on paper 41" x48"

This painting parallels Delacroix"s Massacre of Chios with a modern spin- wiping out groups by economic status. The group ( in the foreground) are literally in the street as new developments and the hustle of everyday life continues in the middle and background. In the waning days of the pandemic, how are we distributing opportunity and wealth?

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FOGGY WITH A 100% CHANCE OF GENTRIFICATION

(2022) Acrylic on canvas, 31" x31"

We are in the latter days of the pandemic and there is an odd occurrence happening. Housing cost is exacerbating the fall out the pandemic. As opportunity returns and recovery from the health and economic aspects of it, there is an emerging working, educated and under- resourceed class of people becoming homeless.This appropriation of a Romantic period painting modernizes the visual experience from privilege to plight.

THE DUKE AND DUCHESS

(2022) Acrylic on panel 36" x 40"

This painting is a juxtaposition of a classical portrait "Duke and Duchess (circa 1690s) and photos of sharecroppers (circa 1930s) who lost their domicile. The visual play is on wealth and opportunity being depended on peasants, paupers, mendicants- simply put the poor.

WHAT THE DARK PAST HAS TAUGHT US

(2021) Mixed media and collage on panel, 41" x 48"

This painting places a man between the south and north with collaged workers in the foreground and the dark industrial skyline representing the north. On the chest of the man is a overlapping rhombus (diamonds) brand ( the symbol for slavery). Pictorial representation of the quandary the former slaves had to contemplate.

"AND THE ROCKET'S RED GLARE!"

(2021) Mixed media collage on panel,
22" X 30"

This painting shows slaves in the foreground and insurrectionist in the background. The Capitol is the center focus with an image of it in construction with painted overlay of the completed. The tension between race and the presence of violence is the history and the present time reality.

GENTRIFICATION: STRANGE OCCURRENCE IN THE ALLEY 2022

(2022) Acrylic on canvas 54" x 60"

This painting peeks into the alley of a gentrified place where death, racial tension and abject poverty converge in a strange and peculiar manner. While the racial strife is ever present, the economic disparity engulfs the scene like bonfire.

MIGRATION SERIES

Migration Series

FLORIDA MIGRANTS

Collage 30 X 40 (2019)

African American Migrants traveled north seeking opportunity and a save haven.

ADAM AND EVE

8 x10 Oil on canvas

Migrants sought safe places to rest while on the arduous journey. The Evil spirit catchers (blue bottles) were thought to keep them at bay.

BEN AND JEMIMA

Oil on Canvas 46 x 60

As a result of the George Floyd incident, Black Caricatures left domestic products labels. Ben and Jemima appear as finally freed people.

THE MULATTO

oil on canvas 5 x 7

This is one of eight paintings in the Adam and Eve series where freed, former enslaved children are paired. The idea behind this work is acculturation and promise for a better tomorrow. After surviving captivity, these young souls had opportunity mixed with fear and uncertainty.

SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS

Works addressing the Economic Disparity

CULTURAL CROSSROADS WATERCOLOR ON PAPER

This juxtaposition of the George Floyd Protest and the Insurrection at the Capitol enjoins the nation's dilemma during the pandemic of 2020-21

THE RAFT OF AMERICA (2021) ACRYLIC ON PAPER 36 X 48

Borrowing from Gericault's Raft of Medusa, the narrative parallels to convergence of politics and disproportionality in class and race structure.

SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS

THE MENDICANT AND HIS ENTOURAGE

Acrylic on panel (2020) 4' X8'

The parody of the the opulence of wealth in aristocratic France, this image shows the abject poverty and the transition from one state of poverty to another.

SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS

Acrylic on panel (2020) 4' X8'

Borrowed from Raphael's School of Athens, this paintings replaces the philosophers and scientist with the disenfranchised and poor to create the thought of what intellectual potential is within the mendicants.

ESSENTIAL WORKERS SAVING THE PEOPLE

Oil on Canvas (2021) 32 X 32

Arranged parallel to Delacroix's Lady Liberty Leading the People, this pandemic era parody illuminated the contemporary heroes of the present time. Those who stepped into the unknown to care for the victims of the deadly pandemic. The poor and minority were disproportionately impacted by the global pandemic- both economically and mortally.

The Circle of Life of an African American Man (2022) Acrylic on Panel 48 x48

This painting provides a visual journey of a man who was born enslaved, fought in the Civil War, became a Migrant, acculturated and died- a precarious life lived.