Minkah of KumasiFrom the Artist To see is to know. But how can we know the unseenthe histories, the stories, or the names of a people that were undocumented or erased? I asked myself that question late one evening as I looked at the sun setting behind the hills on the Bay of Portobelo on the Caribbean coast of Panama. The view from my studio faces the ruins of a dock that was, at one time, the first encounter with Tierra Firme for many weary, shackled, and enslaved

In bouboudresses

Much of his color selection is based on personal memories and created intuitively by hand-mixing

by Keith A

I want to provoke thought or conjecture from the viewer

The photograph and the heart connotea vulnerability regardless of the pretty surrounding which is in constant movement

It acts as a living connector between cosmic

Her practice spans drawing

but it also stretches over the ages

as a useful source of liquid and nourishment for those in need

of bodies accounted for and quantified

The paintings unfold as I make them – at times surprising or confounding my expectations

and she incorporates textures with undulating forms