TAURUS BURNS is an amazing artist, thinker and person. He was a student of Jon Onye Lockard and taught African American Arts and Culture and Figure/Life Drawing for over 40 years at Washtenaw Community College. Taurus is constantly growing and transforming as an artist. Some of his best works are 'Loud Truths,’ based on how his life is straddling on the lines of his personal intersections and 'Two Worlds of Black & White,' where he portrays identity in this and his American Life. He always pushes the boundaries of being biracial and healing wounds from his experience in his works. taurusburns.com
CYDNEY CAMP showers her instagram followers constantly with her work. Every hour on the hour, paintings and drawings as if she never sleeps. Everytime I see a new painting from her, I’m intrigued by her use of composition and color. The portraits feel like I am looking firstly inside, then outside of the subject. I love her bold colors and the abstraction, or ‘freeness,’ of form and figures. Nina Simone says ‘freedom is no fear,’ and Cydney has this embodied fully in her works. cydneycamp.com
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