EBCO NAFrom the Artist Many [African American artists]were focused on identity issues, social andpolitical issues. I didnt want to do that directly. I wanted that to be a subtlecomponent of what I was doing And it kept me from having to do what I saw alot of artists doing in my communitylooking in the rearview mirror to see ahead. Excerpted from https: lancasteronline. com features curator of just a few of us believes abstract art doesnt need to explain

using it “like a sketchbook

or on their block

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In my paintings often a dominant graphic gesture floats on rich abstract space

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“My work reflects my life

It is symbolic and encourages one towardthe meditation of spiritual and elemental concepts of daily living

Through travel

I enjoy the mountains and the energy around that

ink and graphite (sometimes combined)

His subjects have rangedfrom silent narratives to still lifes

by that I mean the props and costumes