Mequitta Receives A 2009 Joan Mitchell Award!!!
Mequitta is an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. New works will be posted in the coming months.
Mequitta spends each summer at Blue Sky Project in Dayton Ohio. Check out our program!
Bramble, Oil on Canvas, 60"X50" 2009
Bramble, Oil on Canvas, 60"X50" 2009
Automythography, Colored Pencil on Paper, Size Variable, on-going.
Automythography I at BravinLee Programs, on view till May 9th, 2009
Afrogalaxy, Enamel on Paper, 96"X104" 2007
In Deep, Oil On Canvas, 96"X80". 2008
Plow, Enamel and Waxy Chalk on Paper, 96"X52" 2009
Watch Mequitta's talk at Lawndale Art Center
Triptych, Waxy Chalk on Paper, 96"X52" 3 panels, 2008.
Installation at Lawndale Art Center for exhibition titled Flowback
Through an economy of means: pressure applied to crayon against the bumps and valleys of a page, I describe in Triptych, a distinctly cultural space, Black hair. In the late 1800’s, Painter and draftsman, Seurat, established a technique of combining Conte crayon and rough paper to render forms with a dappled light. The process results in a fuzzy, soft texture with speckles of the paper showing through the applied dark surface. In this way, Seurat rendered figures and landscapes. In Triptych, I’ve used Seurat’s technique for my own ends. I depict Black hair as an embodiment of drawing, equating drawn texture to hair texture.
Flowback, Oil on Canvas, 68"X51" 2008
Loop, Waxy Chalk on Paper, 26"X120In, 2008
In this piece, I move from the microcosm of the self-portrait to the macrocosm of the imagined galaxy.
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