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Amalgamation by Joel M Crooms, Mixed Media- recycled environmentally friendly styrofoam, surfaced by digitally created and analog printed fragments of graphic imagery garnered primarily from the clothing worn by women in my community, 33″x30″x4″ deep
Amalgamation is a three-dimensional Afrofuturistic abstract piece. This multimedia work is heavily influenced and affected by the visual works of Sam Gilliam, Ben Jones, Howardina Pindell, Frank Stella, Aaron Douglas, and so many others. On the musical side Sun Ra, Miles Davis, and Burna Boy. In making this piece in the abstract form, I’m expressing myself with the ultimate freedom that only abstraction can bring. Like the life that we live in today’s world, our culture is influenced and influences everything around us.
Artist Joel M Crooms: To be an Artist in this age of rapidly changing accessible technology the definition and methods of creating Art are excitingly changing. Traditional training along with these events allows my work to fly. Creating my pallets from light, bits, bites, and vectors which I feel is a pure form of light. The work’s elements can be generated in analog form or remain as pure light on a device. The primary pieces I work with are abstractions that give me unrestrained freedom in itself a political statement that so many of my predecessors dealt with. For example Alma Thomas and Sam Gilliam of the DC Color School, Ben Jones. Constructed from bits and bites. He is fortunately a proud resident/homeowner of the District of Columbia’s Ward Seven, East of the Anacostia. This affords me access to a healthy Arts community of individuals encompassing divergent racial ethnic economic and creative modalities. In addition, DC is the nation’s capital, a world-class community with all the benefits and challenges that brings. Born and raised in Newark NJ during the early development of the civil rights struggle & the Black Arts movement. In the heat of open rebellions against oppression with the growth of diasporic consciousness. Educational life experiences along America’s eastern seaboard a smattering of time spent in the interior and brief excursions beyond her borders at this point culminating in life centered in the DMV.
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