Artists & Artisans
Experience the art and artistry of Black creatives, makers and craftspeople.
All About Love with Mickalene Thomas
Blurring the lines between object and subject, concrete and abstract, real and imaginary, Mickalene Thomas creates complex portraits, landscapes, and interiors that explore how women's representation in art and popular culture shapes identity, gender, and self-perception. Thomas’s creativity extends beyond traditional artworks to include collages, sculpture, film, album covers, and furniture design. Her installations often evoke the vibrant aesthetics of her 1970s New Jersey childhood, transformed into psychedelic spaces that explore themes of identity and representation while offering contemporary meditations on female sexuality, beauty, and power.
Fares Micue: Dream of Me
There’s nothing more mysterious than a dream - and nothing more meaningful. An entire world made up of only one mind, a place where anything can happen and all that does is a reflection of that mind alone. In dreams the emotions are laid bare, though they come wearing guises picked from all the corners of our minds. Like the emotions, dreams can be bewildering, frightening, and most of all, instructive, though the lessons may be hard to grasp. To help us better navigate our own inner worlds, fine art photographer Fares Micune graciously offers us a tour of her own.
Malik Roberts: Glory
On a nondescript stretch of Broadway in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, stands a print shop empty of customers or seemingly anything to sell. It is a miracle establishment, not unlike the neighborhood it sits in. You wonder how it has survived Amazon and gentrification, and you wonder for how much longer.
Andile Dyalvane: Camagu
There is a story in the work. For ceramicist, Andile Dyalvane, his work is the story of growing up in South Africa, his connection to the legacy of his Xhosa ancestors, and the indelible imprints of the places he has been. His pieces are more than a meeting of hands and clay. They are a form of self-expression - a record of who Dyalvane is and who he is constantly becoming.
Fabiola Jean-Louis: History Rewritten and Remembered
A rustle of fabric, a pop of color and the unflinching gaze of dark eyes. With these, fine art photographer Fabiola Jean-Louis weaves a narrative that blends past and future, fact and fantasy, afro-futurism and Black girl magic. In the process, blending photography and sculpture, she warps time and space, giving us a glimpse of what might have been while casting light on a history that many have forgotten or ignored.
Jas Knight: Painterly In Brooklyn
Jas Knight, a Greenpoint-based painter, is swiftly gaining a reputation on social media for the haunting beauty of his work, the style of which evokes masters such as Henry Osawa Tanner, while turning a tender eye to the lives of contemporary Black life. The same eye for detail that sets his work apart also inspires him to love his Greenpoint neighborhood and the combination of cultures that it houses.
Nicholle Kobi: An Afro-Parisian Artist In Harlem
Nicholle Kobi, who is originally from France, is one of them. A fashion illustrator with an eye for detail and a love of Black women, Black bodies and Black hair, Kobi produces illustrations of black women enjoying life, spending time together in chic locations and being generally comfortable in their own skin. Splitting her time between Paris and New York, it’s easy to see that the artist’s choice of neighborhood is hardly coincidental.