I grew up in Dakar, Senegal and studied painting at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. My artistic journey has taken her from Seattle to Mobile, AL, where I am currently based.
When I was growing up in Senegal, I would climb to the roof of my apartment building to sit and drink my coffee in the afternoon sunlight. Now the sun streams through the windows in my studio, casting golden rays on the many paintings I have made of the sky. Real sunlight moving across a painted sky creates an ethereal loop, as if the sky is looking in on itself. In other windows, sunlight gets caught in the curtains, saturating them with a yellow glow and distorting the shadows cast by the trees outside. I paint these images because they are invitations to sit in the present moment. I can’t hold them in my hands or keep them in a box for later. And while I can’t reproduce the experience, I am thrilled to chase it because the pursuit creates something beautiful.
Some of my favorite recent exhibitions include: “The Places We Go”, Juried by the Alabama Women’s Caucus for Art, Government Plaza Gallery: A CELEBRATION, Juried by the Mobile Museum of Art, in Mobile, AL, and “Made in Alabama” Alabama Visual Artists Network Invitational Exhibition, at the Samford Art Gallery in Birmingham, AL, both in 2024. I also showcased a solo exhibition, "When the Sky Looks In", curated by Lucy Gafford for the Mobile Arts Council in 2024.
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