Laundry Days + Calls for Stories

The first Laundry Days took place in the warm space of Andrea’s family room in Matthews, North Carolina. Since then, Laundry Days have been hosted in homes, kitchens, classrooms, community centers, outdoor spaces, and virtually. Through partnerships with individuals, community groups, institutions, and organizations Laundry Days have occurred in neighborhoods and communities throughout the country.

Blurred Lines

This Blurred Line series of 40 paintings have been the most important paintings I've ever done in my life. I'm developing a new style and a new way of expressing myself.  These particular paintings highlight the divide of black and white societies yet finding those true allies to provide that little shading to bring clarity and a fuller picture to a heavily divided society. 

Ordinary People

Antonio McAfee’s “Ordinary People” is a photo-installation-based homage to extraordinary black women of the past and present. Utilizing his inimitable photo-collage technique, McAfee combines fragments of images on acrylic medium to construct larger-than-life sized figures that hover in space like totemic apparitions. Like a DJ, McAfee re-contextualizes and re-mixes imagery culled from a process of extensive research into topics including W.E.B.

Plaster Painting Series

Molds—historically used to as voids—transform their behavior to an engaged cast within my practice. These studio-artifacts generated within my practice which were once valuable parts in the context of one process no longer holds the same ideas, function, nor value once they are removed from its process of origin. I celebrate these autonomous outcasts through the act of casting; which for me is an act of acknowledging and regenerating individual, marginalized and overseen history and its disappearance by preserving meaningful parts.

Portrait of Grace Cavalieri, Poet Laureate of Maryland

During 2019, I was invited to participate in the exhibit "The Creator & The Muse," curated by PoetsArtists. The exhibit was originally scheduled for 2020 in Chicago, but the physical exhibit was cancelled due to the Pandemic. The concept of the show paired painters with other artists, writers, and patrons of the arts to create portraits. I was partnered with Grace Cavalieri, the Poet Laureate of Maryland.

Untitled Studio Artifact Series

Molds—historically used to as voids—transform their behavior to an engaged cast within my practice. These studio-artifacts generated within my practice which were once valuable parts in the context of one process no longer holds the same ideas, function, nor value once they are removed from its process of origin. I celebrate these autonomous outcasts through the act of casting; which for me is an act of acknowledging and regenerating individual, marginalized and overseen history and its disappearance by preserving meaningful parts.

SAY HER NAME COALITION

Black women and girls as young as 7 and as old as 93 have been killed by the police, though we rarely hear their names. Knowing their names is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for lifting up their stories which in turn provides a much clearer view of the wide-ranging circumstances that make Black women’s bodies disproportionately subject to police violence.

Square Dreams

Molds—historically used to as voids—transform their behavior to an engaged cast within my practice. These studio-artifacts generated within my practice which were once valuable parts in the context of one process no longer holds the same ideas, function, nor value once they are removed from its process of origin. I celebrate these autonomous outcasts through the act of casting; which for me is an act of acknowledging and regenerating individual, marginalized and overseen history and its disappearance by preserving meaningful parts.
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