ART
RECENT WORK
The University of Seneca Village
The University of Seneca Village is an innovative art project that serves as a conceptual sculpture, blending history and imagination. The initiative celebrates the rich heritage of Seneca Village, a vibrant 19th-century African American and Irish immigrant, community that once thrived on the land we now call Central Park in New York City. Through the creation of a fictional university, I invite you to explore a reimagined narrative—one where this diverse community continues to flourish.
Seneca Village embodied resilience before being displaced by eminent domain. This art project imagines a university as a beacon of education and culture, positioned near the original village site and representing the only HBCU in New York City, in an attempt to honor the past while aspiring for an equally prestigious and dynamic future.
Join me in the first phase of celebrating this lost legacy and engaging with the transformative power of imagination by visiting the university website.
The second phase of the project is an art "year book" that promises to explore histories of actual residence of the village and other notable New Yorkers of color and marginalized groups, throughout the city's history and today, whos stories have not been elevated or told.
Dark Versus Light
Dark Versus Light is an ongoing photographic and painting series that explores the narrative of good versus evil, traditionally framed as light representing goodness and dark embodying evil. This series asserts that darkness is the birthplace of all creation, drawing inspiration from the cosmos, which exists primarily in darkness.
By reframing our understanding of dark space, this work challenges the art and design community’s often simplistic view of whitespace as the sole platform for creativity. Through this exploration, Dark Versus Light invites viewers to reconsider the profound significance of darkness in the creative process.
ATLAS and Other Self Portraits
In my artistic practice, I frequently utilize self-portraiture as a means to explore new ideas, allowing me to avoid the ethical concerns of exploiting subjects for my creative message. In the ongoing series Atlas, I draw inspiration from the mythological narrative of Atlas and the burdens that individuals from diverse backgrounds often carry when navigating "other" spaces. This ongoing series aims to illuminate the complexities of identity representation and the weight of these expectations in contemporary society.
Subway Series
For this series I challenged myself to capture the magnitude, diversity and struggles of the New York City underground. Drawn on an I phone the digital series was displayed on 11x17 metallic photographic prints.