Art Auction

Michelle Talibah

About the Artist:

Michelle Talibah is an artist/ curator, whose practice in the visual arts is unique. Her professional visual arts participation includes that as a painter, public artist, educator, and curator.

Over the past thirty years, she has achieved national acclaim as a painter and has exhibited in galleries and visual art venues throughout the United States. She is the recipient of the D.C. Commission/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant and engaged in a broad range of media during an artist residency at Gettysburg College, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Vermont Studio Center; and most recently, at the Experimental Printmaking Studio at Lafayette College and Raven Editions Printmaking Studio.

Her work as a public artist includes that as a muralist for three works designed by the late Sol LeWitt, installed at the Washington, D.C. Convention Center, and the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum.

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Artist Statement:
"Themes of my work consistently resort to ruminations on power; the power of the invisible, the power of recall, and the power of spirit in the eternal challenge between good and evil. I often find inspiration merely from compelling composition, and relationships in space structuring form; allured by line and the phenomenon of color."

Mediated Tendencies

Mediated Tendencies is a series of four mixed media works on paper that are contemplations for paintings. The title reflects an ongoing pursuit of investigative discovery of creative intent and process. My works are not intentional efforts toward a singular statement but reference an internal practice for unraveling recollection, intention, and social/sensory imprint.

Artwork Information:

#’s 1,2,3,4
Dimensions: "11" x "14"
Medium: Oil Stick drawing on paper
Price: $500 each

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Adjoa Burrowes

Artist statement
In my art practice, I navigate between printmaking, sculpture, and painting, depending
on the message I want to convey in the work. Printmaking, however, has held my
interest the longest - from my undergraduate years at Howard University in Washington
D.C., until now. The scent and sound of ink rolled over a surface, and the intrigue of
paper peeled slowly from a plate, has captured me for decades. My monotypes are
often printed directly from acetate sheets that are laid directly on the press and inked, or
from an flexible gelatin plate where paper or plastic stencils have been laid on top of the
inked surface. I often run the plate through the press multiple times to get a layered
effect, including a “ghost” run where the ink appears very faint. The artist’s hand is
always present in my prints whether they are printed through an artists’ press or the
result of pressure applied by hand. The themes in my work include visual narratives
relating to the angst of contemporary life, in an increasingly dangerous political
landscape. Many of my recent prints reflect the tension of the times including the
pandemic, massive social unrest, and the toll racism, and injustice extract from society.
My use of reclaimed plastic and other materials in my print process tie into my concerns
about climate injustice and overconsumption.

Winds Of Change_08
Dimensions: 12"x 15"
Medium: Monotype on Paper
2020
Price: $500
Winds Of Change_10
Dimensions: 12"x 15"
Medium: Monotype on Paper
2020
Price: $500
Rising Storm_1
Dimensions: 12"x 15"
Medium: Monotype on Paper
2020
Price: $500
Rising Storm_2
Dimensions: 12"x 15"
Medium: Monotype on Paper
2020
Price: $500
Run Down and Run Over
Dimensions: 12"x 15"
Medium: Monotype on Paper
2020
Price: $500

adjoa.burrowes@gmail.com;

Claudia “Aziza” Gibson-Hunter

Claudia (Aziza) Gibson- Hunter is a painter addressing the concept of Flight in her art practice. The gris gris exhibited in this collection is a testament to her artistic thinking as it relates to the Black community and the need for protection and an accelerated growth of consciousness.

Laws Rites (Hubert Laws)