DSXO Artists
2021
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JOURDAN BARNES
Born and raised in New Orleans Louisiana, Jourdan Barnes has always been influenced by & surrounded in art and health. Completing his education in Art and Psychology at Xavier University, Barnes works to create health equity through his work with Louisiana's STD/HIV/Hepatitis Program. Recently Barnes was a Master Photographer for YoungArts Miami, exhibited his “Imen” series at The Front gallery in New Orleans and completed Joan Mitchell's artist residency program. Barnes is currently working on a culminating series titled "Black Fabric" that highlights Black people's experiences, and amplifies their voice. Barnes has exhibited works in well respected museums like The Ogden, Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans, and The Guggenheim New York. He has also been a part of arts initiatives like Prospect 3 and Photoville. Today Barnes is continuing to push the concept and idea of digital photography through digital collage and highlighting the experiences of Black women, men, and the intersectionality of Black queer men. Barnes is aspiring to create space where he would utilize his talents to serve Black youth that are in need of artistic expression for therapeutic purposes. |
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SEAN G. CLARK
Sean Gerard Clark is a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee who has lived and worked in New Orleans for the past six years. Before coming to New Orleans, Sean graduated from Morehouse College with a Bachelors of Science in Biology with a concentration in Public Health and African-American Studies. Sean has always found art as a tool for navigating life throughout his work and academic career.Sean’s artistic voice began in childhood, however his active art voice began when he started painting to cope with the stress of school. He began his artistic practice as a landscape painter and over the years has transitioned into a variety of subjects that investigate the human condition. Sean is a self-taught artist who favors the use of palette knives, oil and acrylic paints, and collage materials. In 2018 Sean was featured as a solo artist during From Africa to Appalachia Foundation’s 30th Anniversary show titled, “Ancestors”. Sean’s mixed media piece, “Unresolved Grief” was featured in Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative as a part of the organization's efforts to increase emotional awareness of mental health issues. Sean recently participated in Young Contemporary Collectors juried exhibition in Memphis, TN. Coupled with his time as a health educator, he has led several art classes that focus on helping students find their own creative voice through journal and mask making. Throughout his artistic career he has been influenced by artist such as Sammie Nicely, Jean Michel Basquiat, Benny Andrews and Bill Sienkiwicz along with writers such as James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison. From this point of inspiration, Sean has created works to reflect identity and history, while sparking ideas in the minds of viewers. |
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KARA CROWLEY
New Orleans Native, Kara Crowley, is an artist who embraces the uniqueness of black culture. She creates pieces in order for her audience to make both emotional / spiritual connections understanding the aesthetics / hardships / accomplishments as an African American in society. Kara's time with YAYA Inc. (Young Aspirations - Young Artist) and at Xavier University of Louisiana molded her into the artist she is today. She also teaches visual arts at St. Augustine H.S. She continues looking for ways to nurture her own artistic practice throughout the New Orleans art community such as Xavier University of Louisiana, Joan Mitchell Center (AIR Program), 912 Studio, and the Ana & Adeline Foundation. Kara's main passion is working in the studio along with her artistic discipline, which is painting portraits. Kara's medium is acrylic paint on wood surfaces and molding paste or dried acrylic to add depth. |
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AMINA DESSELLE
Amina Desselle is an artist living and working in New Orleans, Louisiana. She communicates a blues sensibility through musical and visual compositions, drawing inspiration from Black American artistic traditions of the past and present. Amina's work seeks to explore the significance of time and place in the way people understand themselves and relate to one another. |
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NATAN DIACON-FURTADO
Natan is a New Orleans, LA and Hudson, NY based collaborative artist and designer, originally trained as a cultural anthropologist and architect. He has exhibited globally in venues including the Venice Biennale of Architecture and the Buenos Aires International Biennial of Architecture, and is a 2021 Joan Mitchell Center Resident. As a designer Natan has collaborated on set designs for Solange Knowles, the creation of the Hotel Peter and Paul in New Orleans (one of Time Magazine’s “World’s Greatest Places”), and the creation of various multi-award winning architectural projects. As an artist, Natan collaborates with communities, built environments and material histories to realize pattern-based projects focused on identity creation and storytelling. Grounded in a daily practice of diaristic stamp-making, he embraces a global southern heritage of fundamental geometries and pattern-making as visual translation devices for experiencing and exploring these stories through printmaking, sculpture and digital projection. His sculptural printing practice engages in visual code-switching: manipulating sheets of hand-printed patterns into ephemeral objects utilizing light, shadow, geometry, color and repetition. What results are translation devices for further exploring issues of culture and identity between the artist and the many communities he exists within as a globally southern person of color. Natan’s collaborative projects engage his training as a cultural anthropologist to facilitate the creation, definition and exploration of shared visual languages through pattern making. Communal digital quilts of pattern act as visual translation devices to explore individual and collective patterns of creativity, family, tradition, and more through new media and projection installations. |
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MALAIKA FAVORITE
Malaika received her BFA (1971) and MFA (1973) in art from LSU Baton Rouge, LA. Her artwork is featured in: Art: African American by Samella Lewis, African American Art and Artist, also by Samella Lewis, Black Art in Louisiana by Bernardine B. Proctor and the St. James Guide to Black Artists, by Thomas Riggs. Her works are featured in collections through out the United States. |
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BELINDA FLORES-SHINSHILLAS
Belinda Flores-Shinshillas is a visual artist born and raised in Mexico City. She currently resides in the New Orleans area. Belinda apprenticed painting and drawing techniques under renowned Mexican muralist Manuel Guillen y Campo Huici (Guillman) and holds a BA with an emphasis in printmaking from Southeastern Louisiana University. Her artwork has been of a contemporary nature using the figure and representational elements as an important component in the visual narrative, merging it with abstract concepts and techniques as a way to move through space. All the elements become a metaphoric voice, capturing the balance between intimacy and distance. Her drawings, prints, and paintings are an extension of her identity and culture, using form and color as an idea, an attitude, and an interpretation that questions the permanence of the world surrounding her. Belinda has exhibited her work internationally in Mexico and Ecuador. She has had solo and group shows in El Paso, Texas; Santa Fe, Taos, and Las Cruces in New Mexico; New Haven in Connecticut; North and South Carolina; Pomona in California; Covington and New Orleans in Louisiana. |
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KARLA ROSAS
Karla Rosas is KARLINCHE, an illustrator and painter born in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Karla came to the United States as a child and grew up in a small town called Cut Off, about an hour and a half south of New Orleans. She has lived in New Orleans for 10 years and is based there. Karla’s artistic inspirations reflect her upbringing among multiple cultures from Nuevo Laredo to New Orleans -- she is inspired by comic books, Chicana art, ranchera music, pop-punk aesthetics, anime, surrealism, and Mexica, Mixtec, and Mayan art and cosmology, and from observing the shapes and patterns found all along the natural landscape of Southeastern Louisiana. As a painter, Karla works primarily with acrylics paints but enjoys incorporating embroidered and decoupaged elements into her pieces. She is self-taught. Karla’s work has also been part of numerous political actions locally and nationally, including the Flowers on the Inside postcard campaign in partnership with CultureStrike, Casa Arcoiris, and Forward Together; as well as banner-making collaborations with el Congreso de Jornaleros and the NOLA Peoples’ Assembly. In 2019, she was awarded the Define American Immigrant Artist Fellowship, one of eight artists selected nationally. Her art has been featured in The Nation and Salamander Magazine, and she has also been a visiting artist lecturer for Syracuse University. In December 2020, she exhibited Caras Vemos, Corazones no Sabemos, a multimedia portrait series with artist and collaborator Fernando Lopez at ArtSpace 3116. Currently, Karla is working on a collection of illustrated prose titled Desahogando: an Undrowning. |
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KYLEN
Kylen Guilbeaux (b. 1995, Opelousas, LA) has rooted his practice in community engagement, creating his work in surreal abstract activism. Guilbeaux received his BA from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette LA for (2019) New Media Visual Arts. My art deals with racism, classism, and sexism, within the black community. My art is a gateway to having healthy conversations about the mental well-being state of African Americans. Also to bring awareness of what surrounds the black community, a community that impacts and influences the world. |
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MIRZAM PÉREZ
Mirzam Pérez is a Honduran-born visual artist and scholar based in Grinnell, IA and New Orleans, LA. She is an Associate Professor at Grinnell College where she teaches early modern Spanish literature. When she is not teaching, she enjoys painting, spending time by the water, and listening to live music. I merge my artistic practice with interests in early modern literature and culture to denounce the destruction of ecosystems and waterways by transnational corporations and local governments in Central America, both of whom share an insatiable thirst for profit and power. My paintings seek to educate, promote reflection, and ultimately, move us towards the protection of people and the environment. I emphasize the interdependence between humans and nature, the layers of history and cultural practices that bind us, and the urgent need to conserve life and land in any region of the world. |
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QRCKY
My work explores the relationship between Black diaspora sensibilities and urban spaces. With influences as diverse as Kara Walker and Jean-Michel Basquiat, new synergies are crafted from both constructed and discovered layers. Currently living in Baltimore, I am interested in the sensation of moving, the deconstruction and reassembly of surfaces, and of forgetting and remembering what has come before. Generations of people that don't see themselves in art lose their history. My art allows me to develop an identity and be able to say, This is my story, this is what I know. |
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TOKIE ROME-TAYLOR
Atlanta native Tokie Rome-Taylor’s work explores themes of time, spirituality, and identity. She often integrates found objects as artifacts and conduits of memory. Rome-Taylor’s exhibition and awards record includes several national gallery and museum exhibitions including the Artfields 2021-Lake City, South Carolina; The Griffin Museum of Photography- Winchester, MA; Mfon: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, SP-Foto SP-Arte São Paulo, Brazil; Women (Un)Silenced A Survey of Contemporary Black Artists- Gallery 1202, Gilroy, CA; Juried Exhibition- Masur Museum, Monroe LA; Zuckerman Museum of Art GA; Dalton Gallery- Agnes Scott College; “APG- Alan Avery Selects'' Atlanta, GA., amongst others. Rome-Taylor’s awards and recognition include PhotoLucida Critical Mass 2020 top 50, recipient of a Funds for Teachers Fellowship, studying photography in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in San Francisco, California. She is an Honorable Mention recipient for the International Photography Awards (2019) sponsored by the Lucie Foundation. She is also a 2019 recipient of the Virginia Twinam Smith Purchase Award. Her work is held in multiple public and private collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. Rome-Taylor’s work was recently acquired by the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art. |
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JOSÉ TORRES-TAMA
José Torres-Tama is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist, and has received major grants for his performances and visual art practices. He just finished a four-month Artist-In-Residency program at the Joan Mitchell Center from October 18, 2020 to February 3, 2021, and was awarded a working studio in the regal arts facility. He continued to develop his large mixed media works-on-paper that chronicle the public protests of Latin American reconstruction workers here in New Orleans, which is part of his latest visual history projects to honor immigrants who aided the epic rebirth of New Orleans in the 15 years plus post-Katrina. His forthcoming book "Hard Living in the Big Easy: Immigrants & Photography of Post Katrina Protests 2010 to 2019" has just received a December 2020 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Documentation Grant for its development. It chronicles a decade-long project of “Live Art” public protests photographs Torres-Tama captured of immigrant workers and their heroic acts of resistance to labor abuse, police brutality, and random deportations by inhumane ICE Agents. Also, the book brings together his many writings on the contributions undocumented Latin American immigrants have made to the epic rebirth of a city that has exploited their labor, yet offered a blind eye to their labor abuses. |
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TSHOMBE TSHANTI
Tshombe Tshanti is a photographer and filmmaker from Atlanta, Georgia that currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. During his time in Louisiana, there have been numerous movements and persistent social issues that mirror and impact what was taking place nationally. The Black Lives Matter protests, protests against the deportation of Latin American immigrants, and the demand to remove symbols of white supremacy from the landscape were as prevalent in New Orleans as anywhere in America. The content that was produced during these years reflects the intense energy of the times and the shift from artistic photographer to documentarian. From 2017-2019 Tshanti collaborated with Jose Torres-Tama documenting the Taco Truck Theater project and creating a short film for the UNO Gallery exhibit in 2018. He also contributed images and a short film to the New Orleans Peoples Assembly in support of the efforts to garner a Fully Funded Relocation for the Residents of Gordon Plaza. As a visual artist Tshanti aims to create and capture imagery that is compelling and true to life. To create visual art that conveys the beauty, urgency, and resilience of those resisting systemic oppression in these days and times. |
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NIARUS WALKER
Niarus was born in Dominica, W.I. She lives and works in St. Croix, USVI. Niarus has a BFA in Design and Painting and an MS in Art Education. She has a 27 year history in artmaking and Art Education. She has been curator and director of the board for the Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts in St. Croix. Niarus is married with two wonderful children. My paintings reflect the transience of life with references to consciousness which encompasses time, personal and generational memory, experience and identity. |
