KENTE
suspended twigs in tree branch
Cougar Bay Preserve
Photo courtesy of Shawn Gust
Monday
Alike's World
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| Just finished the newest piece in the "Pariah Series" This one is 19x30" Acrylic on Canvas. Price on Request. Title: Alike's World SOLD |
Wednesday
Thursday
Triptych
Triptych. First Panel: Absence. Second (middle) Panel: The Shape of our Kind. Third (final) Panel: The Return
40" x 90"
Acrylic on Panel, Beautifully Framed as one unified piece
$10,000
$10,000
In Sickness and Health
In Sickness & Health
Bronze finish on Plaster cast of original clay sculpture
23" x 24"
SOLD
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Monday
Burial
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| 9"x12" framed "Burial" Recycled cut paper collage with UVL varnish overlay to prevent fading with light exposure. |
Wednesday
Absence
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| Absence 9"x12" Recycled Cut paper with UVL Varnish to protect the papers from fading with exposure to light. |
Friday
Reconstruction
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| "Reconstruction" 9"x12" Cut Paper Collage This piece is intricately made with many small pieces of recycled magazine paper. Stimulating composition and exquisite detail. One of my finest collage works so far. |
Sunday
Wednesday
Julia
Monotype from Flesh, with Acrylic on Paper; 40"x42"
"Julia"
When I am emotionally so connected to the creative process that I can't have a paintbrush between me and the canvas, I "paint" with my body and hair... It's messy and painful, and the palette is restricted to nontoxic pigments, but the process is fulfilling and the results evocative.
SOLD
Saturday
Hell
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| "Hell" This 8'x4'x4' installation features a life-size plaster figure sculpture with 'implanted' human hair in pit, chest, & chin, an open-mouth rendering with full dental sculpting, & acrylic gloss finish. The vortex under the figure is made from recycled clear plastic plates & cups, tissue paper, concrete, wood, steel, styrofoam, & ink airbrush. The installation was featured originally with black velvet curtains (white used here for purposes of photography), and the 6-lamp circuit was set on a motion detector, catching viewers by surprise when they walked into the curtained area. A written expose' of various ideas about hell hung outside the black velvet curtain door. Last exhibited in Washington, DC on Pennsylvania Ave. Vortex elements were later destroyed, and sculpture was maliciously damaged, so this photo is a memorial of the art. |
Wednesday
Visitation
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| Visitation 86"x33" Acrylic on Stitched & Sculpted Elkhide This one-of-a-kind original features seven different elkhides sewn together with invisible nylon thread, then soaked and sculpted for a free-form piece that defies the need for a frame. The warm tones are rendered in a classical style with acrylic paint and finished with a satin varnish, for ease of maintenance and display. $10,000 On Tour in Maryland |
Sunday
Coming Back
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| Coming Back 26"x38" Oil on Deer Skin SOLD The deerhide is stretched like a canvas, with smooth layering of oil brush strokes. The hide chosen for this painting has scarification (actual wounds the deer incurred that left marks on the hide); these blemishes mirror the trauma of the female figure, who is the subject of this work. Coming Back speaks to regaining spatial boundaries to recover from trauma. Unframed; gallery-wrapped deer skin. |
Monday
Sidhe
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| "Sidhe" Acrylic on Eggshells and Panel 24"x35" Framed in a simple, yet beautiful Brazilian hardwood SOLD "Sidhe" is a Gaelic term meaning, "spirit." This composition is a double self-portrait of the artist's spirit, both disciplined and controlled in subtlety, as seen in the foreground figure, and unbounded & free, as seen in the figure departing the composition at right. Set in an undefined interior scape, the background could also be imagined as a landscape horizon. Intricate detail, precise craftsmanship. |
Wednesday
Isolation
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| "Isolation" Cut Paper Collage with UVL varnish; 5"x7" nicely framed in wide black wood $250 |
Reclamation
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| "Reclamation" Cut Paper Collage with UVL varnish; 5"x7" nicely framed for wall mounting or table-top display $250 |
Sunday
My Place
"My Place"
Acrylic on Puzzle & Panel, 27"x42"
The original is painted on panel with a puzzle-piece texture, revealing that this image is about connecting parts of myself and finding my sense of place. The background is a sunset where I was born in Montana, and the model is a girl in Cape Town, South Africa, where my family lived for 5 years.
SOLD
8"x11" prints are available for $100 each
15-foot Mural on Concrete Wall
This is a 15-foot tall mural on a concrete exterior wall that I painted in Jackson, Mississippi. Unfortunately, it was painted over by the city recently... I painted it with just five colors of latex paint - mixed into 21 different complex colors in tupperware containers... good memories, sad to lose it!! 
collaborators: Lawrence Quinn & Daniel Root
collaborators: Lawrence Quinn & Daniel Root
Tuesday
AFRIKA
"AFRIKA"
Cut paper collage with UVL varnish; 36" x 30"
I used pieces from clothing, sports, national geo, & other magazines to bring together different 'pieces' of the earth & the human experience, in this face of our mother as a tribute to the Motherland.
History: When the original was first shown in Jackson, MS, Jolivette Anderson (aka The Poet Warrior) and the Black Poets' Society performed. The Poet Warrior wrote "Pieces of You, Pieces of Me," an original poem based on inspiration/connection with this image.
Collectors: private collectors in Mississippi own the original
Prints: High-quality, signed limited edition prints are for sale for $105. These prints are life-size lithography on acid-free paper and are beautiful framed in a variety of colors/styles. Makes a great mantle-piece that will draw admiration & conversation from your house guests! To order, email: rachels_art@yahoo.com or call (208) 215-8357. Free shipping on unframed prints, rolled/tubed.
Sabrina
"Sabrina" Oil on Canvas; 18"x24" Framed in Rosewood
Featuring the artist's younger sister while living in South Africa.
$1000
On Tour in Mississippi
On Tour in Mississippi
Final Passage
"Final Passage"
Fiber paper collage and ink/pastel drawing; 11"x14" nicely framed
Features an underground view of a hand at rest, with an actual piece of cotton picked directly from a Mississippi cottonfield.
Wednesday
Sunset
"Sunset"
No drawing or painting, just recycled pieces of paper, glazed with a UV protectant and framed; 5"x7"
$450
Terrain
"Terrain" This is a cut-paper collage. Using recycled magazine paper, this is the 5th in a series of miniature landscapes that pay homage to the earth by recycling waste paper to create portraits of our planet's terrain. 4"x6," a truly painstaking miniature work.
Not For Sale
The Great Escape
"The Great Escape"
This deerhide bas-relief sculpture is accented with oil paint and oil pastels. 16"x11" My son calls this piece, "The KKK Stuck in the Brown Space," which may be better than the original title.
$750
Saturday
Monday
In the Middle
"In the Middle"
Deerhide Bas-relief sculpture. This process is fun but challenging: first a high relief mold is made (I sculpt & assemble forms), then the deerhide is soaked in special stiffening solution, then I pound and stretch the hide around the mold, sometimes nailing it in place. After it hardens, I remove it from the mold, discard the mold, and handsew a small deerhide hanger on the back of the piece. I accentuate the shadows with acrylic paint and add gold leaf to the highlights. "In the Middle" has an additional texture, which involves roughing the surface with sandpaper. It hangs freeform and looks attractive on painted, wooden, or brick walls. 9"x11"
$500
Sunday
Bernice
Two-layer Pastel Drawing on fiber paper (darks are pulled back by a drawing on the back paper, while lights "shine" through the fiber paper from the white of the paper behind it). 18"x24" Sold
Saturday
Open Hands
"Open Hands" Charcoal study, 18"x24" in black wood frame; dream-like textural drawing.
SOLD
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Private Workshops for All Ages
...Yes, I do work with kids as well as teaching at the college level. Costs for painting workshops, including professional paint supplies, canvas, and even on-the-spot framing are: $150 for a 3-hour workshop. I teach painting techniques while the student creates a finished masterpiece that we frame together at the end of the workshop. Great for Father's Day, Christmas, etc... truly a quality gift.
Portrait Commissions
This image of four brothers is my most recent charcoal portrait. Inquire about portrait drawings, paintings, & commissioned works.
Angela
Linocut Reduction Print, won Mississippi state printmaking award. Mounted on acid-free foam core, unframed; only 3 prints left in edition of 12. 9"x12" $100 unframed, $150 matted/framed.
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