b. eng bio
B . is an Indigenous queer interdisciplinary fine artist living in Atlanta, Ga.
Her concept derives from her life experience, identity, and tying her conceptual thought directly to her skill.
Painting between multi-layers of resin and mixed media—she lay down a blend of surrealism, abstract expressionism, and conceptual art.
Historically, her work has embodied vibrant graffiti pop art, and shapes influenced by the Americas, Africa, and geopolitical Scandinavia. Her current work includes themes of Bauhaus and constructivism inspired geometric shape and form. She is currently creating between two new series which explore themes of identity, relation, an individual’s physiological memory, empowerment, divinity, and storytelling. Her goal is to connect people to one another through concept, story, cultural history, and intimate aesthetic while initiating the willingness to participate in dialogue of social culture and our individual role in it.
artist cv
B. Eng
I am an Indigenous queer interdisciplinary fine artist and my entire life is following the trajectories of conceptual thought.
Color. City. Barrio Culture. Graffiti. Cement. Story.
This was the initial foundation theme throughout my work, connecting all of my work to itself.
Cinematography set the tone for me in regard to my concept of visual storytelling and it’s connection to color and culture—film that matched the world that I would open up my front door to see; city, color, street, brick, plant, earth, brown and vibrant.
I’ve always wanted to paint with that dialect of life, of culture, of home.
When I started off with this concept of multi-layers—I used depth to tell these stories—each layer standing as its own painting. My earlier works were a collection of street graffiti pop-art, Aztecan, Malian, and Nordic-influenced historical marking locked inside of layers of resin. From there my portraits took on more surreal forms—morphing out of realistic portrait lines.
My current work is very conceptual; exploring a blend of surrealism and abstract expressionism. Current themes of Bauhaus and constructivism inspired geometric shape and form are finding themselves integrated in pieces. Painting between multi-layers of resin—encasing elements in layers emphasize floating detail that you have to really engage with in order to notice (much like connection between people). Using lines similar to those found on the blueprints of buildings representing varying concepts unique to each individual work.
I am currently creating between two new series entitled ‘Of Marrow’ and ‘Omnium-gatherum; connect i”. These series explore themes of identity, relation, an individual’s physiological memory, empowerment, divinity, and storytelling. These works include both video and audio components geared around each subject of each individual piece with a goal pushing to more interactive showcasing.
My goal with my body of work is to connect people to one another through concept, story, cultural history, and intimate aesthetic while initiating the willingness to participate in dialogue of social culture and our individual role in it.
I hope to bring people closer to themselves by bringing them on as engaged listeners and viewers of others.
I want to unveil the prominent differentiation between how we are seen and how we see ourselves.