16x20 inch oil on canvas
This piece touches on intergenerational trauma, which states that trauma can be transferred from the first generation of trauma survivors to the second and further generations of offspring of the survivors via complex post-traumatic stress disorder mechanisms. This is often experienced/felt within black households in America, and around the world.
MASTERPIECE is a bold, international, multidisciplinary group exhibition, at Band of Vices gallery, whose aim is to establish a dialogue between contemporary artists of the present and Master artists that will illuminate the ever-shifting issues consuming us today. This painting is based off of a photo taken by one of my favorite renowned photographers, Viviane Sassen, from her first monograph, Flamboya (2004-2008).