Apanamae Productions

Apanamae Productions, a multi-media visual arts organization, aims to produce socially based art exhibits and performance productions that critically reflect the issues of our current day and time. Our mission is to utilize art as a means to expose the reality of our nation's attitudes towards race, gender, class, and sexuality - while simultaneously reflecting, representing, and reanalyzing various socio-political issues that affect oppressed peoples as a whole.

In general my work can be seen as portraits of our American existence through both a racial and economic scope. Through multi-media paintings, installations, and performances I wish to expose the reality of our cash-culture and nation's attitudes towards race, sex, class, and customs: "reflecting, representing, and reanalyzing various socio-political issues, especially that of the black experience". I am drawn towards the consumer aspect of cultural propaganda through mainstream media. Technically the surfaces of my work are rich highly textured acrylic portraits with images both collected and collaged from popular media publications. In 2000 I created Apanamae Productions, a multi-media visual art organization with the aim of producing socially based art exhibits and performance art productions that subjectively reflect the issues of our current day and time. And with the intent of presenting self-realized projects to as general and broad of an audience as possible. My ultimate goal is to formalize a performance art troupe that tours locally and nationally. I also plan to continue producing public art projects and to curate both solo and group exhibitions all with the purpose of reflecting our everyday existence for everybody and everyone.