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Artwork & Practice
My Black queer identity has informed much of the way I work with materials. Using what is available to me like discarded wood, acrylic paints, paper, and cardboard, I use these items to verbalize things that cannot be said. In a world where Black, queer, fat, and disabled bodies are not valued, I am informed by Afrofuturist philosophy, which is not only a cultural aesthetic but philosophy of history and informed by African Diasporic epistemologies. Water and place are critical to my work and I am constantly using these themes to think about a world beyond the one that we live. It is important that we visualize a world where freedom and liberation exist. My goal for my art is to propel conversations and help inspire others that liberation and freedom are attainable. I'm working on a new project in conjunction with my art.
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Gallery
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Olokun: Orisha of the Deep Ocean, collage on wood, 12"x24", 2018.
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Untitled (Too Heavy a Yoke Too), acrylic paint and egg on paper, 6"x9", 2018.
Rites of Passage, acrylic paint, market, construction paper, newspaper on paper, 2015
And When They Try to Take Your Humanity Away, mixed media, 2015
Am I Here, mixed media on art board, 2015
14, paper, acrylic paint, ink, pen on cardboard, 2015
Too Heavy a Yo(l)ke: Self Portrait, mixed media on wood, 2015.
Drexciya II, acrylic paint, ink, and pencil on wood, 2017
Copyright C.Michelle, acrylic paint and scrapbook paper on canvas, 18"x24", 2017.
Rebirth, acrylic paint & scrapbook paper on canvas, 9.5" x 14", 2017
Suffocate 1, digital photography, 2015.
Suffocate 2, digital photography, 2015.
Cut Up, mixed media on art board, 14"x16", 2015
Mother Nature, acrylic paint on paper, 2015.
Glitch, acrylic paint & ink on paper, 18"x 24", 2016
Red, acrylic paint on art board, 2007
Copyright C.Michelle, acrylic paint on paper/digital, 2015.
Copyright C.Michelle, acrylic paint on canvas, 24"x18", 2017.
Copyright C.Michelle, digital art, 2015.
Copyright C.Michelle, mixed media on cardboard, 36"x48", 2015.
Untitled, ink, charcoal, acrylic paint on paper, 2016
Untitled 26, mixed media on cardboard, 2016.