“50 Shades of Black” (2018)
Oil on Canvas
24" x 24"
"When life gives you pain, paint."

This painting represents a universal woman that embodies the beauty of all the different shades of African American/Black women. Colorism has always been something that divided people of color however her skin radiates with melanin to UNIFY and embrace all skin colors from the lightest shades possible to the darkest possible and everything in between. .

There is beauty and power in our melanin