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jewel ham
Oil, acrylic, colored pencil, pastel on canvas
52×44in
Jewel Ham is a multidisciplinary artist + cultural practitioner utilizing her craft as a mode of political resistance. Her work highlights the beauty and fury inherent to the Black interior; exploring reclamations of Black history, culture, futurity, and imagination within spaces of the intuitive familiar. Informed by archival research, collective memory, and discernment - these expressions unearth emotionalities, intelligences, and otherwise realities woven into various facets of Black livelihood.
Marked by signature variations of the color red, this fiery selection celebrates the multifaceted wit and wisdoms located within our shared ancestries - while simultaneously affirming the ever-boiling blood of intergenerational rage. With careful attention to wordplay, symbolism, and expression - her work centralizes the Black gaze. In upholding an unapologetic approach to "If you know, you know" - Jewel invites viewers toward self-reflection, critical discourse, and reimagination of embodied liberation.
jewel ham
Oil, acrylic, colored pencil, pastel on canvas
52×44in
Jewel Ham is a multidisciplinary artist + cultural practitioner utilizing her craft as a mode of political resistance. Her work highlights the beauty and fury inherent to the Black interior; exploring reclamations of Black history, culture, futurity, and imagination within spaces of the intuitive familiar. Informed by archival research, collective memory, and discernment - these expressions unearth emotionalities, intelligences, and otherwise realities woven into various facets of Black livelihood.
Marked by signature variations of the color red, this fiery selection celebrates the multifaceted wit and wisdoms located within our shared ancestries - while simultaneously affirming the ever-boiling blood of intergenerational rage. With careful attention to wordplay, symbolism, and expression - her work centralizes the Black gaze. In upholding an unapologetic approach to "If you know, you know" - Jewel invites viewers toward self-reflection, critical discourse, and reimagination of embodied liberation.
