Featured Artist Alexis Williams
Alexis Williams’ Bio
Alexis Williams gave birth to her two masterpieces in early 2018 during “identity project,” a visual exploration of multiple cultures as a process to create art with deep meanings. She did this by expressing herself as a grown-up woman, jumping outside of her comfort zone of making fan art of Disney and superheroes. The first culture that spoke to her was African, which linked her to “home” in two meanings: simply her African heritage where her soul comes from; and an independent household, what she dreams of having in the future. The visual aesthetics seen in “African Woman” is her response to seeing images of colorful African tribal fabrics and jewelry mixed with the tribes from the movie “Black Panther”. In the second painting “Ukiyoe”, Alexis incorporated an element of Africa into the second culture, Japanese, which is clearly shown as an African woman wearing a gorgeous Japanese kimono. Inspired by Geisha makeup, Alexis chose to include pigments and scented oil of her own collection of actual cosmetics on the woman’s face and her garment. Both of the two women in Alexis’ paintings are in heavily embellished garments that beautify and empower them as an armor is to a warrior, retaining aesthetics of superheroes that she loves. Her soul never changes even though the subject matter of her art does.
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