#African Artist

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south african miku!!

love this art trend so i threw my hat in <3

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REMA | Rave Scene 🦇

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@artbyruth_nj

artbyruthnj.com/collections/digital-drawings

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SKUNDER BOGHOSSIAN 1966

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Phyllis by Zina Saro-Wiwa

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Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi is a visual activist, humanitarian and art practitioner who focuses on the documentation and celebration of the lives of South Africa’s Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex communities.

Beginning in 2006, Muholi responded to the continuing discrimination and violence faced by the LGBTI community by photographing Black lesbian and transgender individuals, resulting in the ongoing portrait project, Faces and Phases. Their self-proclaimed mission is “to re-write a Black queer and trans visual history of South Africa for the world to know of our resistance and existence at the height of hate crimes in SA and beyond”.

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“Get in Loser! (we’re going crazy)”, Jade Maduike

Jademdk.com

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Hey Ho! I'm Broke! My parents want to evict me and I have little to no money! So, if you want to help a good man out, please give me a donation or commission and I may give you a nice drawing back!

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TYLA / AUGUST 2024

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Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) is a Kenyan American visual artist, known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work. 

Born in Kenya, Mutu now splits her time between her studio there in Nairobiand her studio in Brooklyn, New York, where she has lived and worked for over 20 years.

Mutu's work has directed the female body as subject through collage painting, immersive installation, and live and video performance while exploring questions of self-image, gender constructs, cultural trauma, and environmental destruction and notions of beauty and power. via Wikipedia

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REMA | All Black Fit

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Olamide Ogunade Olisco

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Sketches of beautiful Klao (more commonly known as Kru) girls! It took me forever to find photos that were specifically southeastern Liberian Klao (closer to where my dakwe would be) for accurate reference. I learned about the indigo forehead mark from a Klao journalist’s article so the girls here have it. All the current photos, though, were black and white, so I had to take a guess on some of the colors based on my own real life reference. I really love this and just might make it a series with the Bassa and Vai people, and maybe even the Kpelle. But yeah! I had a lot of fun on this, and I really loved it came out! Just so tumblr doesn’t nuke this post, I did not draw in nipples. It’s stupid but whatever.

Most of their outfits are based off of this photo:

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Daughter of a Song Bull, by Nyareeta Gach, 2018

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Zanele Muholi’s work in her series of Brave Beauties (2014-), exhibited at the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, 2020