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Big Eyes
by S. Watson
Original Acrylic on Canvas
Size 13.5″ x 19.5″ Approx.
S. Watson is from the Philadelphia area and attended the Arts Institute.
SOLD – Big Eyes by S. Watson
Morning Prayer by Michele Foster-Lucas
Price: $1,800
Morning Prayer
by Michele Foster-Lucas
Giclee Hand Embellished on German Etching Paper
Signed by the Artist
Size: 40″ x 30″ Approx
Michele Foster-Lucas is a Folk Artist that speaks of people and culture through her existing and creative artwork. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Michele soon moved to southern New Jersey after high school years, she later attended Burlington County College where she earned an Associate Degree in Science.
Michele has always had the spirit of an artist. In 1993, at the urging of friends and family, and after visiting private exhibitions and museums, Michele began painting on canvases. After moving to soft pastels, Michele’s subjects evoke a spiritual grace and yearning, reflective of her God-given talents. She was soon invited to exhibit her talent at the Woodbine Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Galleria in Manayunk and the Gallerie 500 in Washington, DC. Michele was a featured artist at the Essence of African Fashion Show and the highly prestigious, October Gallery held in Philadelphia. Her work has been displayed at the Remee Gallery, the Annual Tommy Gomillion Art in the Garden in Washington and Community Art in Atlanta, Georgia, General Electric Fine Art Gallery, and the Picture That Fine Art Gallery in Connecticut.
As Michele’s artistic perspective expanded, she explored new mediums and modes of expression as in works titled The Watermelon,” “Couple and the Moon,” and a series Black stick figures, render a near abstractionist view of life’s moments.
To date, Michele has produced two photo-lithographs titled “One Love” (released nationally as an unlimited edition in 1992) and has currently produced over one hundred giclees. The names of some are titled Carnival, Growing In Grace, The Fan, Road Song, and Out of the Blue which was released in limited edition in 2007.
“Carnival” represents a powerful and colorful leap into a new dimension of creativity inspired by a famous New England artist that used acrylic. Michele combines that technique with soft charcoal pastels. The resulting is an image that conveys the frenzy, vibrancy, and sensuality contained in the spirit of a Carnival.
Her patrons include a wide array of persons ranging from the contemporary artists Paul Goodnight to Hershey Hawkins (a former Basketball player of the Philadelphia 76’s). Her works are for all people from all walks of life as evidenced by a near “sell out” of her exhibit at Gallerie 500. Versatile Michele creates pieces ranging from modest to complex.
As a new folk artist on the scene, her artistry has grown bolder of greater variety and with breathtaking emotional complexity. For your home or your office, her art work remains affordable but of a sophistication that speaks of museum quality.
Offered at $1,800
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Black Is Beautiful – Black Art Coloring Book – Softcover
Price: $11 NOW $5.50
Black Is Beautiful Coloring Book
Size 8.5″ x 11″
Inspirational Coloring Book to Celebrate the Black Family. 60 images perfect for colored pencils. This Coloring Book For anyone – young or old – Is Just What You Need | Inspirational Anti-Stress Coloring Book Find your inner artist as you color this therapeutic anti-stress coloring book, perfect for colored pencils. Full page designs are printed single side for easy removal for display. Positive affirmations and inspiring images to provide endless fun, stress relief, creativity, and relaxation. Relax and unwind as you color and immerse yourself in inspiration and motivational self-expression through creativity with this stress-relieving coloring book designed to honor the Black family.
Size: 8.5″ x 11″ All interior pages are black and white to be hand colored.
Offered at $5.50
The Match Maker by Willie Torbert
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The Match Maker
by Willie Torbert
Signed
Size 13″ x 19″
Willie Torbert attended Pratt Institute, Medgar Evers College and has publication credits with New York Newsday, Essence Magazine, Essence Art, Sony Entertainment, Mosaic Literary Magazine, Trend Publication, Amsterdam News Bayridge Press, and City Sun. He has exhibited his work in New York, Atlanta, Florida, Washington D.C., and New Orleans. His prestigious listings of Commissions include Essence Magazine, Bacardi Rum, Thelma Hill Performing Arts, Harper Collins Publishers and Henry Street Settlement.
As an artist who is also an educator, Willie Torbert has taught within the New York City Board of Education for ten years. During his work with the New York Public School System, Willie exposed his students to many facets of art through an array of mediums. When Willie moved away form his teaching job to work on his art full time, he received an award of citation for his dedication and work with the children of the borough of Brooklyn from Howard Golden, the Brooklyn Borough President. The Nubian Women’s Art Circle recently honored Willie for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of the art of the African Diaspora.
Willie Torbert founded Zakiya Art Gallery in 1993. A gathering place for cultural events, art and jazz, Zakiya is a jewel in the heart of the Bedford-Stuyvesant community.
African Wood Sculpture
Price: $1,700
African Wood Sculpture
Size: 10″ x 27″ Approx
Offered at $1,700
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SOLD – At The Mic by S. Watson
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At The Mic
by S. Watson
Original Acrylic on Canvas
Size 13.5″ x 19.5″ Approx.
S. Watson is from the Philadelphia area and attended the Arts Institute.
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SOLD – On Stage by S. Watson
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On Stage
by S. Watson
Original Acrylic on Canvas
Size 13.5″ x 19.5″ Approx.
S. Watson is from the Philadelphia area and attended the Arts Institute.
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Morning Patrol by Kadir Nelson
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Morning Patrol
by Kadir Nelson
Limited Edition Signed and Numbered
Edition 850
Size 26″ x 34″ Approx
Kadir Nelson is an award-winning American artist whose works have been exhibited in major national and international publications, institutions, art galleries, and museums. Nelson earned a Bachelor’s degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and has since created paintings for a host of distinguished clients including Sports Illustrated, The Coca-Cola Company, The United States Postal Service, Major League Baseball, and Dreamworks SKG where he worked as a visual development artist creating concept artwork for feature films, “Amistad”, and “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron”. Many of Nelson’s paintings are in the collections of notable institutions and public collections, including the U.S. House of Representatives and the National Baseball Hall of Fame, as well as in the private collections of actors, professional athletes, and musicians. Nelson has also gained acclaim for the artwork he has contributed to several NYT Best-selling picture books including his authorial debut, “WE ARE THE SHIP: The Story of Negro League Baseball”, winner of the Coretta Scott King and Robert F. Sibert Awards, and was published by Disney/Hyperion in the spring of 2008. Currently, Nelson’s cover artwork is featured on the album “MICHAEL”, by the late pop singer icon Michael Jackson, Jackson’s first posthumous album release. Nelson’s upcoming literary effort, “HEART AND SOUL: The Story of America and African-Americans,” will be published by HarperCollins in the fall of 2011.
SOLD – Music by S. Watson
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Music
by S. Watson
Original Acrylic on Board
Size 48″ x 48″ Approx.
S. Watson is from the Philadelphia area and attended the Arts Institute.
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Saturday Night by Gigi Boldon
Price: $275
Saturday Night
by Gigi Boldon
Limited Edition Signed and Numbered
Serigraph Edition 375
Size 23 1/2 ” x 22″ Approx
Gigi has been an artist from the moment she was able to hold a brush between her fingers. She studied at Columbus College of Art and Design and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. In 1993, Gigi boldly left a lucrative career as a Graphic Designer to pursue her art on a full-time basis. As this decision left her facing divorce and single-parenthood one can imagine the obstacles she overcame but in her work one can still feel the positive essence of womanhood and the spirit of love.
Gigi’s art is inspired primarily by Romare Bearden, Benny Andrews, William Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Charles McGee, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. She prefers to work in acrylics and mixed media on paper, wood, or canvas, but is also adept at watercolor, collage, paper sculpture, stained glass, and airbrush.
Gigi is one of few artists who are able to work across a wide spectrum of cultural images, creating reflections of African-American people. Most evident in Gigi’s art and her personality is her passion. She has an attraction to nudes as subject, and she states, “…the human form is one of the most beautiful of God’s creations.” Gigi feels that the nude as expressed in fine art “…grabs us differently than in other manifestations such as film, music videos, and commercial advertising.”
She maintains her studio in Detroit, Michigan and works every day from mid afternoon until the early hours of the morning.
Offered at $275
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Trouble Them Waters by Edwin Lester
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Trouble Them Waters
by Edwin Lester
Limited Edition Signed and Numbered
Offset Lithograph Edition 300
Size 39″ x 27″ Paper / Image: 35″ x 21″
This self taught artist from Philadelphia has been well accepted in the art community in his first year. Expressing his acceptance in Christ and some political issues has taken many by surprise wondering what is to be expected in 2004.
When ask if he considered himself a spiritual or concept artist he replied, “I paint images which are a part of my everyday life. God, love, simply living trying to be the best I can at what ever I am trying to accomplish that day. I just love what I do and when I walk out into the world each day, there is so much to see, so much to paint. For tomorrow is not promised. So today I will say what I can, do as I must and paint what I can even if it’s just one stroke.”
The Lamp by Romare Bearden
Price: $195
The Lamp – (30th Ann. of Brown vs. Board of Education)
by Romare Bearden
Open Edition
Size 21″ x 35″ Approx
Born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1911, Romare Bearden, by the time of his death in 1988, had achieved a stature known by few artists during their lifetimes. He was, and still is, considered America’s greatest collagist and was thus honored by receiving the National Medal of Arts in 1987 from then President Reagan. The artist’s works are in the permanent collections of most every major American Museum including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrospectives of Bearden’s art have been organized by the Museum of Modern Art, the Mint Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Council for Creative Projects.
Throughout his life, Bearden depicted many rituals and social customs of twentieth century rural Black America. The images of spiritual ceremonies, baptisms and burial, industrial hardships, musical arrangements and daily life have become the themes that critics and collectors most frequently associate with his work. Visually and emotionally stimulating, Romare Bearden’s collages and prints are beautiful to behold and fantastic to contemplate.
Offered at $195
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Surrender by Larry Poncho Brown
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Surrender
by Larry Poncho Brown
Limited Edition Signed and Numbered
Offset Lithography
Size 27″ x 27″ Approx
Larry “Poncho” Brown, is a native of Baltimore, MD. He started his first business at the age of 17 as a signwriter and he has been a full time artist ever since. Poncho received his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. His art, both fine and commercial, has been published nationally in Upscale, Ebony, Ebony Man, Essence, and Jet magazines. In February ’99 his art was featured in the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History Textile Series No. 2 book entitled “Wrapped In Pride”. His popular works have been prominently featured on several TV shows and movies including “Soulfood”, “The Wire”, “A Different World”, “In The House” and “Avalon”. His work adorns the walls of the likes of Bill Cosby, Dick Gregory, Anita Baker, Susan Taylor, Ed Gordon and Bernard Bronner just to name a few.
In pursuing his philanthropic goals, he founded Raising The Arts which has created over 70 images to assist non-profit organizations and African American Organizations with fundraising for the past two decades. He also co-founded the Creative Quarantine which is a collaboration with other professional artists that dedicate the entire month of January to creating new experimental works.
Admirers often site rhythm, movement, and unity, as favorite elements in his work. He primarily works in acrylic, although he uses a variety of mediums and styles to express his interests in Afrocentric themes, Ancient Egyptology and dance. Poncho’s unique style combines past and present art stylizations to create a sense of realism, mysticism, and beauty, which gives his art universal appeal. “My creations are a reflection of my personal values and pay homage to ongoing themes of unity, family, and spirituality”.
SOLD – Hadiza by Laurie Cooper
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Hadiza
by Laurie Cooper
Original Pastel on Paper
Size 9″ x 12″ Approx
Laurie Cooper is artist born and based in Philadelphia, PA. She received Bachelor’s degree from the University of Arts and received her Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. Laurie Cooper strives to highlight the inner and outer beauty of everything that she paints. She works diligently to showcase the special qualities of the black race. Her paintings are known for their inherent strength of character, strong unique facial features and richness of skin color. Collectors of her work include Dr. Samuel F. Quartey, Dr. Carey Tucker and Dr. Pete Smith.
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SOLD – Look at Me by Laurie Cooper
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Look at Me
by Laurie Cooper
Original Pastel on Paper
Size 9″ x 12″ Approx
Laurie Cooper is artist born and based in Philadelphia, PA. She received Bachelor’s degree from the University of Arts and received her Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. Laurie Cooper strives to highlight the inner and outer beauty of everything that she paints. She works diligently to showcase the special qualities of the black race. Her paintings are known for their inherent strength of character, strong unique facial features and richness of skin color. Collectors of her work include Dr. Samuel F. Quartey, Dr. Carey Tucker and Dr. Pete Smith.
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