ARTISTS

ALBERT BOSTICK

As a visual artist, my images reflect the duality of my Southern-American and African heritage and the social, political, religious, literary, and artistic quests of my ancestors and elders of the Black/African Diaspora. The subjects of my paintings are derived from the histories, stories, lives, dilemmas, and beautiful triumphs of being Black and with Afrocentric roots.

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My color palette ranges from the brilliant jewel tones of African textiles to the warm earth tones of southern terrain, the red clay and browns of the banks of the Mississippi, the emeralds and gray-greens of the Spanish moss laden oaks, and blue-black earth of Louisiana. My art is the result of irritations in my culture (the way sand is the irritation to an oyster) – the result is a pearl!