The Artist's Show at Gallery Blue Door and Why He Calls for Rethinking Portraiture
"Every artist has something they have to say. At this moment, my language and what I’m striving to get across is the right to be, without excuses, I don’t have to give an excuse for being."
The Painter Calls for Relooking at the African Diasporic Experience
"The Unembodied In-between of Blackness: that is where our humanity rests. That is where anyone from any ethnicity, any culture, that is where they connect with the work."
The Multi-Media Artist Interrogates the Cost of Fast Fashion and Offers Models of Repair
Camouflage renders beauty and material repurposing from the catastrophes of environmental degradation. The beauty here is not empty or slight, but deeply ethical, a slow product of intense labor and years of study and gestation.
The Neo-African Abstract Expressionist's Solo Show at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Simmons’ process is guided by a contemplative, meditative conversation with the materials as his paintings take shape.