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Artist Statement
As a American artist, my aesthetics are an exploration
into my cultural and spiritual identity, and recognition of my African
ancestry. I use several different materials, found objects and glass
as my primary palette. In my use of a mixture of several different
materials, colors, forms, images and textures, my work represents
the mixture within us all as a people. This mixture embodies who
we are in the Diaspora. My art attempts to remind the viewer, that
inevitably we all must reclaim and reconcile our past, with the
present, in order to move forward. Whatever we have lost, forgotten,
forgone or been stripped of, can be reclaimed, revived, preserved
and perpetuated.
Bio/Resume
I began my artistic journey studying stain glass techniques
with Jimmy Powers at the Washington Sculpture Center in Washington,
DC in 2004 and at the Diablo Glass and Metal School in Boston with
Justyn Zolli. While a student at the Washington Sculpture Center,
I was introduced to kiln glass techniques by the artist Tim Tate,
glass casting by the artist Michael Janis, and recycle glass techniques
by the artist Erwin Trimmer. I continued perfecting my glass techniques
in workshops at Washington Glass School, Bullseye Glass Company
in Portland, Oregon and UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, NY, resulting in
an Artist-In-Residence at the Kari Minnick Glass Studio in Silver
Spring, Maryland. I am currently an Artist-In-Residence at the Washington
Glass School in Mt. Rainer, Maryland.
Selected Exhibitions:
2022 – Obsidian Contempory Art & Design, Wash. DC: Reckoning
2022 – Eubie Blake Center, Balt. MD: Arts In the Hands of Men
2021/22 – Arts'tination, National Harbor, MD: PG Arts & Humanties
2019 – Center Stage, Balt. MD: Benefit Show
2018 – Center Stage, Balt. MD: Benefit Show
2018 – Maryland Art Place, Balt. MD: Off the Wall
2017 – Maryland Art Place, Baltimore MD: Out of Order
2016 – Washington, DC: HUD Art Show
2016 – Maryland Art Place, Baltimore MD: Out of Order
2015 – Center Stage, Baltimore MD: Benefit Show
2014 – Glenview Mansion Art Gallery, MD: "The Secret Life
of Glass"
2013 – Parish Gallery Georgetown, Washington DC: “Through
the Years”
2013-2012-2011 – Center Stage, MD: Benefit Show
2012 – Arts Afire Gallery, VA: “Celebrations In Light”
2011 – Glennview Mansion, Maryland: “Generations in Glass”
2010 – Center Stage, MD: Benefit Show
2009 – Gallery Spectra, MD: “Art in the Hands of Men”
2009 – Robert Lehman Gallery, NY: Group Show
2009 – Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth,
NJ: “Responding to Cuba”
2008 – Robert Lehman Gallery, UrbanGlass, NY: Group Show
2008 – Parish Gallery Georgetown, Washington, DC: Black Fine
Art Show, NY
2007 – Parish Gallery Georgetown, Washington DC: “Reclaiming
African Iconography”.
Links
Blog | Washington Glass Studio (washingtonglassschool.com)
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