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Fine Art Archive (11 images)

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  • 'Freedoms Fighters'<br /> 36"x46" oil on canvas 2002<br /> In the collection "Chemistry of Color"<br /> at the Philladelphia Academy of Fine Arts.<br /> <br /> This painting is a depiction of some of the strongest individuals of the civil rights movement who believed that the struggle for equal rights was and is worth fighting for and if need be work dying for. There is one empty seat on the bus. Who today can fill that seat to help restore all the civil liberties that continue to disappear. Individuals in the painting (left to right) MALCOM X, DELILAH BEASLEY, BOOKER T WASHINGTON, HARRIET TUBMAN, JEREMIAH E SANDERSON, GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER, DR MARTIN LUTHER KING, W.E. DuBOIS, ROSA PARKS, Empty seat, FREDRIK DOUGLASS, MAYA ANGELOU.

  • 'Little girl in the darkness'<br /> 24"x24" oil on canvas 2001<br /> <br /> I was walking through the streets of Zanzibar and came across a group of adults and kids in a narrow alleyway. The people in the front of the group were out going and social but it was the little girl cunningly positioned in the darkness that truly caught my eye.

  • 'Children'<br /> 24"x30" oil on canvas 2000

  • 'Safe Journey'<br /> 36"x40" oil on canvas 2001

  • 'Don't Forget'<br /> 36"x46" oil on canvas 2002

  • 'Blind Faith'<br /> 30"x40" oil on canvas 2002<br /> In the collection "Chemistry of Color"<br /> at the Philladelphia Academy of Fine Arts.<br /> <br /> The man in this painting has had a restless night. Even in his dreams the pressure of life seeps in. His cross, his symbol of his faith is the one thing that has remained constant durning his slumber. It is blind faith that awakes him and its is blind faith that will see him through.

  • 'Anthony'<br /> 36"x24" oil on canvas 2008<br /> <br /> I think every artist has that one painting where you realize that your skills have suddenly jumped to levels that you had thought were unattainable but yet there you are. Anthony was that painting for me. Anthony is a guide in the national parks in Kenya responsible for protecting you from the people not the wild life. At the time of the painting he was 22 and I could not help but marvel at the ease with which he wielded his gun as if it were just an extension of his arm.

  • 'Clare'<br /> 28"x22" oil on canvas 2002<br /> <br /> Clare was a homeless woman living on the streets in East Oakland. I saw her sitting on a park bench and I wondered how much she relied on faith to make it through the cold nights. Clare passed away shortly after this painting so I painted a cross in her hand perhaps because I find myself to relying on faith to get through as well.

  • Bitter World'<br /> 36"x36" oil on canvas 1998<br /> <br /> This title is taken from a Nina Simone song. At the time this piece was painted, listened a lot to Nina Simone. I actually painted this painting as a reaction to what I was learning about art history and the lack of black painters or the subjects (they were the slaves or in the shadows). I thought what would a degas look like if he painted a black or brown bather?

  • 'Reaching for a perception'<br /> 36"x36" oil on canvas 2004<br /> <br /> Every morning we wake and take a look into the mirror. The woman in the painting is reaching for a mask that unconsciously is the preconceived perception that depict her reality, the only question is which one is the reality? I guess it\'s all in how we perceive it.

  • 'Suleiman'<br /> 18"x18" oil on canvas 2002<br /> <br /> Image published in the 12th ed. Encyclopedia of Living Artists