In an attempt to condense my embarrassingly massive lipstick collection, I've been on a self-imposed beauty product shopping ...

Inspired by the likes of Faith Ringgold, Mickalene Thomas, Jacob Lawrence, Romaire Bearden, and Wangechi Mutu, Self illustrates the modernity of Black life and, more specifically, the iconographic ...

the painting is not an illustration of anything.” and “8. allow the paint as material to take care of the black thing.” These musings, though initially intended to inform only Whitten’s ...