ISE
SHARP
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I am a Jamaican American artist of Chinese, European, Sephardic Jewish and West African ancestry. Coming from a transnational background and practicing teachings of non-duality, my practice asks questions of the existence and the universe. How do elements of the physical world reflect our inner states? How can polarities be juztaposed and synthesized? How do form and formlessness converse in a pictorial space? These questions have led me to create surrealist environments reminiscent of the cosmos, microbial environments, dreams-scapes, and the untouchable.
The works take notable influence from traditions of Chinese landscape painting, post-war Japanese art movements, and teachings of Kriya yoga. Each are created using organic pigments and materials (charcoaled bone and fruit seeds, chalk, and raw linen). They are bound using Lasuax’s water resoluble medium, which includes readily biodegradable synthetic polymers.
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Unspeakable World
Untitled 6, 2024, Chalk, bone, fruit seed, acrylic binder, and ink on linen, 120 x 200 cm
Untitled 7, 2024, Chalk, bone, fruit seed, acrylic binder, and ink on linen, 120 x 200 cm
Untitled 5, 2024, Chalk, bone, fruit seed, acrylic binder, and ink on linen, 120 x 200 cm
Untitled 5 and 7, Installation Image
Detail
Detail
Detail
Untitled 0, 2024, Fruit seed, lapis lazuli, azurite, and water soluble medium on linen, 50.8 x 76.2 cm
Untitled 3, 2024, Chalk, bone, fruit seed, and ink on linen, 60 x 40 cm
Untitled 2 2024, Chalk, bone, fruit seed, and ink on linen, 60 x 40 cm
Untitled 4, 2024, Chalk, bone, acrylic binder, and ink on linen, 60 x 40 cm
Untitled 1, 2024, Chalk and bone on linen, 80 x 60 cm
SELECT PAST WORK
Aya, 2024, Ballpoint Pen, Acrylic, Cotton, 100 x 30 cm.
Wound, 2021, Acrylic, Japanese paper, and seed on canvas, 40 x 40 in.