Join us for the Opening Reception for Roots, Black History and Heritage. Meet and mingle with local artists, see powerful artistic works, and enjoy light bites and refreshments.
This exhibition is curated by artists Khuumba Ama and David Dixon.
About Khuumba Ama
Khuumba Ama hails from the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor of Savannah, Georgia. She now resides in Harlem, USA. She is a full-time MultiDimensional Visual Artist, Poet/Storyteller,Photographer, Curator, Filmmaker, Educator, and Reiki Inspirational Therapist.
She has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. Khuumba has left her mark in Africa, throughout the Caribbean, as well as the United States.
About David Dixon
I have always been an artist. As a kid growing up in the Bronx, I would mold clay animals, stashing the materials in a dresser drawer, until my mother discovered it that is. Later painting oil portraits for friends’ parents was a way to make a few extra dollars during my high school years at Music and Art. Two years of college followed but it was not for me at that time. I dropped out of college and enlisted in the US Coast Guard, completed my telecommunications engineering degree and retired three decades later. Now retired I devote myself full time to developing my artistic career.
I am an avid international traveler. I relish incorporating the sights and feelings of my travel experiences into my work, but my greatest muse is jazz and the extraordinary artists who play it. I capture impressions of jazz musicians in my representational work and the moods and vibes of their music in my abstract work. I use various media to create representational and non-figurative work. Increasingly I have been incorporating photography into my practice by digitally combining my photos with my abstract painting to form photo collages.
I frequently show my work at various venues and participate in art associations and collectives. I also take classes to advance my portraiture skills at the NYC Art Students League. I have exhibited in NYC, Rockland County, Westchester County, Washington, DC and Provincetown, MA.
