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Houston, TX USA
My paintings are expressive, vibrant, audacious, bold and aspirational. The scope of my work varies but each series is a celebration of blackness.
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Toya is an around-the-way-girl. Each piece in this series is an exploration of black female features with the context of skin color removed, which in many cases leads to the faces being racially ambiguous. Thus emphasizing the larger point that race really is only skin deep.
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Now, About the artwork:
“Your beauty will be in shades of Melanin and Light”
I love black people. I love the way melanated skin absorbs sunlight and has an ever so slight glow afterwards. I love the way dark skin glistens and radiates light when misted with sweat or is caressed with a slight sheen of coconut oil.
I love color. Not quiet, subtle, muted colors; but bright, bold,loud, colors that scream!
I love light. From the subtle changes in sunlight from season to season, to the glittering sparkles of light dancing across water like broken glass.
I love light.
But I also love the night life. The dark,The music, the energy, the excitement. There’s an air of mystery and unknown possibilities.
And so the question became, how do i combine these things in a way that is authentically me?
“The more I paint the more I like everything.”
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat
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