Isle of the Dead 2020

Over 300,000 people in the U.S. died from COVID-19 by the end of 2020 with many more living in isolation and even worse conditions entering into the beginning of 2021. The people who have been most affected include those who are autistic and intellectually disabled, people of color, LGBTQ+, chronically ill, incarcerated, houseless, and elderly. Despite the risk, many people, particularly conservative leaders and media, refuse to take proper precautions or outright deny the full reality of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Institute for Counterfeit Memory

A piece made during and about the pandemic The Institute for Counterfeit Memory is a play in a box that gets sent to audience members at their homes. The piece chronicles the creation of false worlds using an mp3 player, diagrams, and small props. The audio track asks the audience to imagine what we would have happened if the pandemic hadn't, and to turn our attention to and be present with what happened instead.

Accumulations

"Accumulations" consists of one-of-a-kind objects and images displayed in white frames, including torn wrapping paper, yellow tissues, a map, and pine needles, among other things. The work was exhibited alongside the installation of Instagram ads in my solo exhibition and acts as an alternative self-portrait.

Crystalized Moments

     This avenue of research observes time as both tactile and conceptual. These constructions try to capture the momentary and fleeting moments that stream passed us. The painted construction illustrates the moment and there by assigns the moment an identity. Shadows, scars and foot prints are examples and indicators of its passing. This project goes a little deeper and a lot more abstract as these works explore in a non-linear means how time can be broken into individual parts or "moments".

Steampunk 3D

Chosen by Artists Sunday as one of the Top 20 Gift Ideas for 2020! These fun and funky 3D mosaic sculptures are dressed with steampunk watch parts, beads, costume jewelry and found objects. 

From The Realm of Dust

Across painting, printmaking, sculpture, video, mosaic, and mixed media works ranging from tiny and intimate objects to monumental panels, DeVane’s creative sensibilities leave no stone unturned in her quest to communicate her vision of the painful and troubled specificities of black American history side by side with her embrace of a pan-spiritual relationship to the divine.

Broken English [Punctuation]

Broken English is an artist’s book about European colonization and its effect on modern society, especially regarding language. The Prologue and Punctuation Marks blend English dictionaries with languages from Britain’s former colonies. In this case, India and East Africa. Punjabi, Swahili and English intermingle in a composed cacophony. Having imposed itself on every page, the English language dominates the installation. The Prologue and Punctuation Marks also contain pages from novels in the Western literary canon that are hailed as must-read classics.

Defended

2017. INSTALLATION DIMENSION VARY. SNOW-CONE CUPS, HOT GLUE.

A study of the mind's defensive mechanisms that protect us from the things that aim to destroy us.
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