Makeba Kedem-DuBose

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Artist Statement

My paintings are intended to push the limits of the imagination with bold color, strong line, and fiery strokes. I use lines in my paintings as visual representations of the thread that spiritually connects us to one another while simultaneously exploring the human connection to nature. Color is employed as a catalyst for healing the effects of racism and separatism by displaying the varying hues of the human race often within a single image. In painting in this fashion, my mission is to pull viewers into a bigger picture, beyond themselves in order to realize our original connection. I view my art as a tool to assist in connecting the human race for the ultimate purpose of peace. I paint from my heart and soul, and I know that I am merely a vehicle for the expressions of the creator of all. Media include but not limited to acrylic paint, paper, canvas, ink, oil pastel, graphite, ceramic tiles, wood, sand, beans, and found objects.

Bio

Makeba Kedem-DuBose is an internationally recognized professional artist whose career spans over 15 years. Her art incorporates vivid, expressive images and textures to convey messages of peace and oneness. She is a member of the African American women's art collective Sapphire and Crystals, Southside Community Art Center, Chicago Women's Caucus for Art, The Chicago Artists' Coalition and various other arts organizations. Makeba has exhibited extensively in Chicago locations including Nicole Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, the renowned historic Southside Community Art Center, The Chicago Cultural Center, South Shore Cultural Center, Concordia University, The School of the Art Institute, and the University of Illinois (African American Cultural Center) to name a few. Nationally, Makeba regularly exhibits in New York, Atlanta, and Philadelphia. In October 2004 Makeba was featured in Chicago collector, Daniel T. Parker's, "African Art: The Diaspora and Beyond." In the same month Makeba along with Dr. Margaret Burroughs and W. Galmon were selected to participate in a celebrity fundraiser exhibition for San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD), due to open in October of 2005. Also in 2004, Makeba was selected to be included in the 2005 African-American calendar published by Family Magazine/Colgate-Palmolive, which also includes such artists as Richard Mayhew, Claude Clark, Louis Delsarte, Mary Lovelace-O'Neal, Grafton Tyler Brown, Monica Haslip, and Clementine Hunter. Makeba is an expressionist artist whose life experience colors her work.