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Venise Keys

Fine Artist. Educator. Activist.

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Woman Made Gallery January 24, 2019February 19, 2019
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Working on a dragon tattoo for a client. What people don't understand is that I spend hours and sometimes days crafting my drawings until it settles right with me. The process is just as meaningful as the end product. I rarely use pencils, I like to go in with a pen and redraw images for muscle memory. #lashonfoucheart #lashonfouche #lashonfouche #lashonfouchéart #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #flashart #dragondrawing #dragontattoo #drawing #chicagoartist #thightattoo #pendrawing #studiodrawing #research #fineart #processart
Tattoo flash sheet for the witches, brujas, and rootworkers and everything interconnected. Burning bundle with a wooden handle of raw she's butter. More custom tattoo drawings to come. #penonpaperdrawing #penonpaper #pen #fabercastell #pendrawing #linework #lines #lashonfoucheart #lashonfouche #lashonfouchéart #contemporaryartist #chicagoartist #artist #instaartist #illustration #artistofinstagram #diasporaart #witchy #sheabutter #cleanse #breathe #selfcare #tattooflash #tattoo #flashart #flashdrawing #linework #illustration #fineart
Update on the painted pants. Sankofa bird to begin the design #refashion #paintedclothes #paintedjeans #afrocentric #limitedpalette #contemporaryartist #customclothes #lashonfoucheart #lashonfouchéart #lashonfouche #acrylicpaint #painteddenim #goldenpaint #liquitexpaint
I haven't painted on a medium sized canvas in a while. So Im sprucing up some old faded black jeans....this is in progress #refashion #paintedclothes #paintedjeans #afrocentric #limitedpalette #contemporaryartist #customclothes #lashonfoucheart #lashonfouchéart #lashonfouche #acrylicpaint #painteddenim #goldenpaint #liquitexpaint
Go to SIXTY INCHES FROM CENTER and READ the interview I did with Jenn Freeman, a.k.a. Po'Chop, about her exhibition performance at Blanc Gallery. I have artwork featured in the article also! *Freeman commissioned me to draw four portraits for this same exhibition. #artistwriter #writer #sixtyinchesfromcenter #interview #womenartists #thankthelorde #audrelorde #tribute #burlesque #performanceart #contemporaryartists
Alignment was on point this fall season. Got to exhibit at SOFA and made sales! Grateful and motivated of my purpose and value. #sofaexpo2019 #SOFA #womanartist #womanmade #womanmadegallery #paperart #paperartist #papercut #handmade #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #chicagoartist #blackwomanartist #navypier #specialexhibition #lashonfoucheart #lashonfouche #lashonfouchéart
FEBURARY🌨️🌬️☀️🎨🖌️ I'm teaching two painting parties at the Beverly Arts Center on 111th Western in Chicago, IL. 👇🏾 Sign up with your sweetheart(s) or solo for a Valentine's Day love inspired painting class. Details in the photo!... 👇🏾 Sign up with your squad, your homies, and/or your family for my Black History Month painting class at the Beverly Arts Center. Learn history and honor the ancestors through fine art! 👇🏾 Thank you to the outreach department of the Beverly Arts Center for consistently hooking me up with gigs as a teaching artist. @bacchicago #teachingartist #paintingclass #acrylicpainting #canvaspainting #blackhisotrymonth #valentinesday
Love these shots of paper cut nudes at Project 1612. Thank you for including me in the exhibition @project1612
✨☀️💛✨☀️💛✨☀️💛 This is an ACTION PACKED WEEKEND in fine art updates. 👇🏾 My interview with the brilliant Jenn Freeman about her exhibition, The People's Church of the G.H.E.T.T.O @itspochop is published on the homepage of Sixty Inches From Center @fromthecenter. 👇🏾 Link will be available in my bio 👇🏾 My paper cut nudes are represented by Woman Made Gallery in a special exhibit for SOFA Expo at Navy Pier right now until November 3rd AND... 👇🏾 On view at Project 1612 in Peoria, IL for the Terrain Biennal 2019 until November 17th AND... 👇🏾 TOMORROW I have pen drawings on view at Woman Made Gallery for a group exhibit, The Truth As a Contested Concept. YES YES Y'ALL 💪🏽💛☀️✨🔥🌻🌛🤓😍😁 #fineart #fineartist #sofaexpo2019 #contemporaryartist #womanmadegallery #project1612
I've leveled up to be artist member at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago. See my cut paper artwork at the SOFA Expo this weekend at Navy Pier! #womanartist #womanmade #fineart #sofaexpo2019 #navypier #contemporaryartist #womanmadegallery #chicagoartist
So freaking excited to be represented by Woman Made Gallery at the SOFA Expo Oct 31st to Nov 3rd at Navy Pier! #fineart #sofaexpo2019 #contemporaryartist #interiordesign #womanmade #navypier #artexpo #lashonfouchéart
Inktober 2019 No. 7- Enchanted #inktober2019 #inktober #enchanted #pen #penonpaperdrawing #penonpaper #witchy #bruja #alchemist #flashart #tattooflash #drawing #lashonfoucheart #lashonfouchéart #lashonfouche
Made the wife a custom coloring book with copper threads binding the pages. #inktober2019 #inktober #pen #coloringbook #bookofshadows #stylizedart #arttherapy
Ring- Day 1 prompt of Inktober 2019. Not gonna sweat it about timing, as long as I have fun and keep y'all in the loop. #inktober2019 #penonpaper #pen #inktober #lashonfoucheart #lashonfouche #lashonfouchéart #drawing #drawdaily #copper #rawgems #preciousstones #copperwrapped #wiredjewelry #handmadejewelry #energy
Waiting to hear back from the HATCH artist residency. Delayed shipping artwork to Peoria. My birthday has passed but there's still more celebrating to do. Just re-read a proposal I emailed this morning and found a grammatical typo. Resisting these potato chips and french fries lurking around every corner while I commute to the next school. #chicagocommute #teachingartist #inktober #commuter #chicagoartist

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