Jazz Singer Ebony jazz reducing it to geometric shapes

reducing it to geometric shapes

I created a 6 ft x 12 ft woodcut print collage for my graduate exhibit in 2011 but afterwards I rolled that collage up and it’s moved with me 7 times

The 2020 pandemic gave me the opportunity to repurpose it into several compositions on gallery wrap canvas and 140 lb watercolor paper using Lines Neutral ph Adhesive

Fluid Acrylics on Paper

I used a minimal style of Cubism without the collage in this series

Jazz Singer Ebony jazz reducing it to geometric shapesFluid Acrylic on Paper 15" x 11" 2015 The art style of Cubism originates with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque taking the subject, reducing it to geometric shapes, repeating it from many different views and sometimes adding collage. Collage comes from the French word 'gluing, to paste'. Collage is usually created with paper or materials. My inspiration was female Harlem Renaissance jazz singers who held huge metal microphones with gorgeous, off