Greg Giles: Sustained Investigation

Greg Giles: Sustained Investigation

Part I of this sustained investigation  Involved an exploration of fears based on time, dreams, combined with personal experiences, represented by both literal and metaphorical imagery, and how they impact the human figure. Media includes, drawing, acrylic paint, pen and ink, photography and collage.

With the second part, seen below, new media (photography, drawing, painting, collage) was added to each smaller 18cm X 40cm section (page of the book) within the larger works and ultimately combined into this book.

Click here to see Mr. G's Sustained Investigation from 2020-2021

Mbali Dhlamini: Contemporary African Identity

 Mbali Dhlamini:  "a multidisciplinary artist and visual researcher whose work explores the decolonisation of contemporary African identity-making. She performs visual, tactile and discursive investigations into current indigenous cultural practices. Her work is in constant conversation with her past and present visual landscapes."  Read More from her Sakhile&Me Gallery BIO 

(Afrique Occidentale, Femme Maure), 2017, Digital Print on textured FineArt rag

(Dakar, Femme Sénégalaise), 2017, Digital Print on textured FineArt rag

(Village Sénégalais, Femme de race Lébou), 2021,Digital Print on textured FineArt rag

(Sénégal, Femme Cérère), 2017, Digital Print on textured FineArt rag

(Afrique Occidentale, Fille Ouolof), 2021, Digital Print on textured FineArt rag

Part of the "Figures" exhibit at Sakhile&Me Gallery

Laura Quin: Frenetic Energy and Lines in Motion

Laura Quin:  Full of frenetic energy and lines in motion, Laura creates dynamic canvases with layers and depth of color, lines, spaces, values, brushtrokes. Read article in Cultured Magazine

"Clean Shaven", oil on Canvas

"Red Clay", Oil on Canvas

"Left Eye", oil on Canvas

"The World Over" Oil on Canvas

"Clutch For Spines" Oil on Canvas

Photo by Caity Krone

At FRIENDS INDEED gallery San Francisco

Akilah Watts: personal experience, nostalgia, folklore

 Akilah Watts: Personal experience intersects with the Caribbean Experience.  Read her full bio from her website

"Alimentation" Acrylic on Canvas

"Pride" Acrylic on Canvas

"Testament" Acrylic on Canvas

"Picnic in Paradise" Acrylic on Canvas

at COCA: Center for Contemporary Arts

Alanis Forde: Paradise and escape

 Alanis Forde:  The artist, a Barbadian, portrays "herself and her reality, questions the meaning of escape and paradise as someone who dwell in a place that is paradise and escape for others". Read more from her bio at PARISTEXASLA contemporary art

"Synthesis" Oil and Glitter on Canvas

"Erubescent" Oil and glitter on Canvas

"Blue Flame" Oil and Glitter on Canvas

"Ataraxis" Oil on Canvas

"The Creation of Bubbles" oil on canvas

Gherdai Hassell: Ethnography and Family History

Gherdai Hassell:  Her  mixed media collages explore her own family history and "unexpected narratives surrounding identity". Read from her website BIO

Zones of interaction, 2019,Mixed media collage and digitalized background on archival textured paper

Permanently together, 2019,Mixed media collage and digitalized background on archival textured paper

Without making assumptions, 2019,Mixed media collage and digitalized background on archival textured paper

Beyond this there, 2019,Mixed media collage and digitalized background on archival textured paper

Beyond The Sunlight, 2021,Ink, acrylic and mixed media collage on canvas

Faith Wilding: Painting, drawing, writing, textiles

 Faith Wilding:  Makes use of  a range of mixed media to best fit with and realize her ideas

Great Pantanal Swamp (Paraguay), 2019, Watercolor, collage, and ink on papyrus

3 Dragons, 1 Goddess, 2020, Watercolor, gold leaf, and ink on paper

Leaf Ark, 2020, Watercolor and ink on papyrus

Up Rooted, 2019, Watercolor, ink, gold leaf, and graphite on paper

Passionflower, 2019, Watercolor, gold leaf, ink, collage on papyrus

Ronald Muchatuta: Communication and Connection, a social and political dialogue

 Ronald Muchatuta: "His dialogues revolve around the contemporary issues facing the people of southern Africa: Migration, Identity Politics, post colonialism and discrimination" Read more from his BIO at the Melrose Gallery

Made in China, 2016,Oil, charcoal and graphite on paper

Strength, 2020, Mixed media on canvas

Black Body, 2016, Oil and charcoal on paper

Survival, 2016, Oil and charcoal on paper

Her Bliss, 2020, Mixed media on canvas

At the MELROSE Gallery, Johannesburg