Manifestations of Art
"Metaphysically you can expand your creativity in mentality to escape a tragic reality." - Leryko Art is ancient even early humans used art as an explanation of life to document what happened at the …
Visual Artists
Derrick Adam
Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary New York-based artist working in performance, video, sound and 2D and 3D realms. His practice focuses on the fragmentation and manipulation of structure and s…
Lee Quinones
Lee Quinones is considered the single most influential artist to emerge from the New York City subway art movement. He is a celebrated figure in both the contemporary art world and in popular cult…
Hebru Brantley
Hebru Brantley creates narrative driven work revolving around his conceptualized iconic characters. Brantley utilizes these iconic characters to address complex ideas around nostalgia, the mental …
Tahir Hemphill
Tahir Hemphill is an award-winning advertising creative and multimedia artist working in the areas of interdisciplinary thought, collaboration and research. Hemphill has planned strategy for busin…
TooFly
Toofly’s journey into the world of art began with her commute to public school from her Corona, Queens neighborhood. Her trips were filled with adventurous sketches as she immersed herse…
Kehinde Wiley
Los Angeles native and New York based visual artist, Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history’s portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendent of a long line of port…
Iona Rozeal Brown
The artist Iona Rozeal Brown uses her large-scale acrylic paintings to wryly comment on the ductile and ever-changing essence of cultural identity, most often by creating visual mash-ups of two di…
John Jennings
John Jennings is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and a Cooperating Faculty Member in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. His work centers a…