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Venise Keys

Fine Artist. Educator. Activist.

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Notes from a Jerry Saltz lecture at SVA August 22, 2017January 24, 2019
Published in the Kalfou journal May 16, 2017November 11, 2019
New exhibition at Illinois Central College! March 24, 2017March 24, 2018
Black Creativity Gala 2017 January 30, 2017
Drawing on colored paper February 28, 2013January 7, 2014
In progress for Harrison exhibition January 22, 2013
Yoruba inspired January 17, 2013
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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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