Acrylic on Canvas

"What I do artistically is part of what I believe can be classified as a distinct genre in art, African American art. It is distinct from European art because it comes out of a distinct, although not monolithic, shared historical and sociopolitical reality, one that is unique to African Americans. But African American art cannot be totally divorced from what is known, as a broad category of art, African art. African art cannot be reduced to a monolithic category that can be easily separated from its expression in Diaspora. However, distinctions in the use of color, subject matter, the voice of the art (how the art speaks and what it says), and materials used may distinguish African art from African American art, from African Caribbean, African Haitian, or African Brazilian, etc. Even so, the rhythm of the art and the cadence of the beat will flow with a certain familiarity that is purely African in flavor and therefore unmistakable. This more true (I believe) of folk artist than it is