Photography by Josh Norris
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I paint images primarily in acrylics, powders, watercolors, pencils and collage. I find that working with this unique palette offers faster drying times, enabling me to overlay color in one painting session, giving the work its tapestry-like background. I often incorporate found objects into my paintings, such as coins from around the world, specialty papers, magazine print and interesting treasures I find on the street. Even my nearly discarded paintings are given new life and recycled into newer works of art, thus creating texture and dimension.
As for my training, I am self taught and merely a vessel being utilized to instinctively create narrative, sentiment and observation. Why I’ve been chosen, I know not, nonetheless, I am humbled by this gift.
The visions that you see before you are the result of internal communication that require expressions of acceptance, pride, adoration and dignity. In creating these images I have come to appreciate that artists have been granted diverse narratives, meaning each artist has his/her own voice. Art expresses itself and when it moves the heart and awakens the spirit, it makes no distinction as to its originator.
Hometown: Daughter of Greenville , S. C.
Years in Art : Since 1991
Influence: The desire to create positive images of color, embracing individual diversity, inner spirituality and natural God given beauty
Education:
Folk Artist
Galleries
- Avisca Fine Art, Marietta , GA
- Fine Art Images, Richmond , VA
- E & S Gallery, Louisville , KY
- Host of Galleries Nationwide (print sales)
Publishers
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McDougal Littell’s Literature (Grade 9), Evanston IL
- Lang Holding, Inc. Delafield, WI
- Image Conscious, San Francisco , CA
- Doll Graphics, Louisville, KY
Exhibitions
- Hampton University Museum, Hampton VA
- Morris Museum of Art, GA
- Black Fine Art Show, NY
- Legacy Fine Art Show, MD
- Mint Museum/Knight Gallery-Romare Bearden Juried Invitational, NC
- Dragon Fine Arts, TN
- International Art Expo, NY
- Spartanburg County Museum of Art, SC
- Greenville County Museum of Art, SC
- Pickens County Museum of Art, SC
- Savacou Gallery, New York, NY
Media Exposure
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- BET, 106 & Park
- Talk Magazine
- The Greenville Journal
- Impressions, A PBS-TV Broadcast: Art Education Program
- Greenville News Artist Spotlight
Public Collections
- Atlanta Housing Authority, GA
- Women's Gender Studies, Vanderbilt University
- English Department, Vanderbilt University
- Erskine University Museum Collection
- CWI Benefits-Managemed
- The Divinity School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University
Private Collections
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Denene Millner/Nick Chiles
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S. Epatha Merkerson
- Jesse L. Martin
- Tonya Pinkins
- Shaun Robinson
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