Don’t Build Castles on the Sands of Illusion by Komikka Patton

Don’t Build Castles on the Sands of Illusion by Komikka Patton, 2023, Mixed Media Collage, Paper, Acrylic, Spraypaint, Mica, Plastic Pearls, India Ink, and Wax, 30 x 30 inches.

Komikka Patton is a peripatetic 2D multimedia artist. Patton uses ink, paper, and collage to create works centrally based on the African Diasporan human condition; her large paper installations and collages touch futurism, transhumanism, mythology, and storytelling. Her work investigates stories; they disassemble and reassemble time, matter, space, and perspective, coupling fragments of thoughts, memories, and associations; with folklore, mysticism, and the metaphysical. Patton has featured works in the World Trade Center and Hyperallergic. She is the recipient of the Darryl Chappell Foundation Grant, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Finalist, and the May and Samuel Rudin Foundation Scholarship. Patton obtained her BFA in Fine Arts from Columbus College of Art & Design and an MFA from New York University.