One of Chi City very own Rodney Wade is on fast track to becoming one America's greatest artists. He has been featured in The Robb Report, Luxury Living, and Private Air. Here is his recent collection “Mood Swings”.
Showing posts with label Monday Morning Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monday Morning Art. Show all posts
Monday, June 1, 2009
Monday Morning Art: Rodney Wade
One of Chi City very own Rodney Wade is on fast track to becoming one America's greatest artists. He has been featured in The Robb Report, Luxury Living, and Private Air. Here is his recent collection “Mood Swings”.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Monday Morning Art: Lauren Jenkins Presents Of Lines & Colors Art Show (3.1.09)
We would like to congratulate Lauren Jenkins on her successful debut of her art work this past weekend. If you missed the event, do not worry we took pictures. And when you are ready to buy one of these C.O.C.A art pieces, contact Lauren. Just tell her you saw it on C.O.C.A Style to get that "Kin folks" discount.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Monday Morning Art (BHM EDITION): Gordon Parks
ARTIST: Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks
BORN: November 30, 1912
DIED: March 7, 2006 (93yrs)
In efforts to join in the celebration of Black achievement, we pay homage to A true RENAISSANCE man; Gordon Parks. A groundbreaking American photographer,musician,poet,novelist,journalist, activist,and film director. He was the first African American to work at Life magazine, and the first to write, direct, and score a Hollywood film. Parks was also a co-founder of Essence magazine. His achievements truly paved the for way for others to follow and to that, we tip our hat and say: RIP Gordon Parks.
"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed." -Gordon Parks
Malcolm X Addressing Black Muslim Family Rally in Chicago, 1963 
Ethel Shariff in Chicago, 1963
Muhammad Ali, 1970
Department StoreBirmingham, Alabama, 1956
Big Momma and Boy (Bessie and Little Richard the Morning After She Scalded Her Husband), 1967
American Gothic, 1942Monday, February 2, 2009
Monday Morning Art: Beauford Delaney
Self-Portrait, Yaddo 1950 Pastel, watercolor and charcoal on paper, 15 x 12 in. Born :December 30, 1901(1901-12-30)
Knoxville,Tennesse
Died: March 25, 1979 (aged 77)Paris
Field: Painting
Beauford Delaney (1901-1979), American painter, known for his colorful abstractions and expressive portraits. Influenced by the rhythms of Jazz music, Delaney’s work is characterized by thickly applied bright color that results in a richly textured canvas. As a young artist Delaney lived in New York's Harlem and Greenwich Village. He supported himself by painting portraits of a spectrum of New York notables and established close relationships with Village artists and literati. Delaney's relationship with abstraction predated the notorious Abstract Expressionist movement, positioning him as a forerunner of one of the most important ideological and stylistic developments in twentieth-century American art. 
Untitled. 1958-59Oil on paper, laid down on canvas, 60 x 44 in.
Untitled. 1958-59Oil on paper, laid down on canvas, 60 x 44 in.
Untitled. 1956 Watercolor and gouache on paper, 24 x 16 in.
Untitled 1954 Oil on raincoat fragment, 18 1/8 x 21 in.
Washington Square 1948 Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 in.
Self-Portrait 1944Oil on canvas 68.6 x 57.2 cmMonday, January 12, 2009
Monday Morning Art: Max Sansing
KIPP LEAD creates poetry lounge in honor of Dr. Mahalia Ann Hines, lifelong educator and mother to hip-hop artist, Common (Mural created by: Max Sansing, David Cho and Everett Bates)
(photos courtesy of : Dickyp.com)
Max Sansing is a Chicago native born in 1981 and raised on the South Side’s Avalon Park area. His father and mother were both artist and Max naturally picked up the love for painting from the early age of ten. Fueled by the desire to create Max would later go on to teach himself how to paint, followed by two years of formal college training at the American Academy of Art. (1999- 2000) He would further expand his talents by creating mural throughout Chicago and by translating art electronic media by becoming a graphic design artist. Max work has been displayed at art galleries and special events though out Chicago.
Max’s portraits are often represented in monochrome and full color with colors conveying the emotions and energy that he feels make for more of a deeper senses stasis than just common skin tone. He tends to start a piece with a portrait and it dictates and tells the story, design, and concept of anything that follows it on canvas. His life and the lessons that he learns ultimately inspire his works. -Artistic Jeanius
Max Sansing is a Chicago native born in 1981 and raised on the South Side’s Avalon Park area. His father and mother were both artist and Max naturally picked up the love for painting from the early age of ten. Fueled by the desire to create Max would later go on to teach himself how to paint, followed by two years of formal college training at the American Academy of Art. (1999- 2000) He would further expand his talents by creating mural throughout Chicago and by translating art electronic media by becoming a graphic design artist. Max work has been displayed at art galleries and special events though out Chicago.
Max’s portraits are often represented in monochrome and full color with colors conveying the emotions and energy that he feels make for more of a deeper senses stasis than just common skin tone. He tends to start a piece with a portrait and it dictates and tells the story, design, and concept of anything that follows it on canvas. His life and the lessons that he learns ultimately inspire his works. -Artistic Jeanius
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