My practice bridges acrylic painting, digital media, and experimental film and photography to examine how Black identity is represented, remembered, and reimagined. I layer deep browns, blacks, and radiant whites with textured brushwork and digital interventions, creating portraits and installations that operate as archives of cultural memory.

At the heart of this work is an exploration of Blackness as a site of duality: resilience and vulnerability, beauty and distortion, memory and imagination. I am drawn to the tension of complexity, how joy and grief, care and labor, transcendence and burden coexist in the everyday. My work captures the sacred spaces where Black identity is made and remade; beauty shops, living rooms, pulpits, and street corners. In these spaces, hair becomes scripture, skin becomes canvas, and gathering becomes ritual.

My approach is influenced by the long history of distortion in visual technologies that failed to honor Black presence. In photography, chemical calibration often diminished darker skin tones, rendering Black subjects invisible or distorted. This legacy of erasure motivates my experimentation with light, color, and form: exaggerating features, layering symbolism, and recalibrating tones to challenge stereotypes while affirming complexity. Projects like my 2023 montage, The Women In Between, reinterpret this absence through Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness, proposing Blackness not as shadow but as illumination.

Equally, I am invested in the cultural spaces where Black creativity and community endure despite systemic erasure. Beauty salons, homes, and churches are more than physical sites; they are vessels of memory and futurity. With over 60 exhibitions and 15 public installations, I carry these inquiries beyond gallery walls, situating them within community as acts of both resistance and care.

Ultimately, my work pushes the boundaries of traditional acrylic painting by integrating technology as an emerging practice. This fusion is not only about medium but about reclaiming representation, expanding portraiture into a language that both honors ancestry and imagines Black futures.