Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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STATEMENT OF WORK
Amadou Diallo
Breathe in
I’m the best hip hop painter to come out of Brownsville since 2009
Breath out
Eric Garner
Breathe in
Black Excellence, Black is beautiful
Breathe out
Breanna Taylor
Breathe in
Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuttin ta Fuck Wit
Breathe out
George Floyd
Breathe in
hold it…
hold it…
These streets ain’t got nuttin on me
Breathe out
Amaud Arbrey
Breathe in
We outside
Breath out
Philando Castille
Breathe in
I’m making money moves
Breathe out
Sonya Massey
Breathe in
The friendliest black artist in America
Breathe out
R.I.P Pope. L
Trayvon Martin
Breathe in
I stay gettin mine
Breathe out
Sean Bell
Breathe in
Word is bond
Breathe out
Michael Brown
Breathe in
When will it end?
When will people start getting back together again?
Elijah Mcclain
Breathe out
These names aren’t meant as an exhaustive list of lives taken suddenly, in the act black, but rather ones I remember during my lifetime. Each one is a person, memorialized through culture in music and art. The work I make explores the possibilities in between, in between breaths, in between blackness, in betweenness. What does it mean to just… be? Through acts of leisure in the form of collage sketches, I create paintings bridging channels of blackness and American culture.