"UNAPOLOGETICALLY HERE" OPENS AT THE HAMPTONS FINE ART FAIR FEATURING ARTISTS ROSSANA ROMERO AND DESTINY BRANAY
SHEER centers the art and stories of multicultural creative women and non-binary people of color globally and holds space for creatives of color to explore the intersecting identities that make us who we are.
SHEER was pleased to present “Unapologetically Here” at the Hamptons Fine Art Fair featuring artworks by Destiny Branay and Rossana Romero. Destiny Branay is an emerging self-taught oil painter who is dedicated to using her practice as a vessel for communal healing and empowerment for the Black community employing a star motif in much of her work which is symbolic of the light that exists in Black people that refuses to be dimmed. Rossana Romero is a Colombian visual artist who through the mediums of oil paintings and paper mache sculptures, combines portraiture and landscapes to explore the rich narratives and folk tales of both South America and the United States combining Western European and Indigenous mythology.
Photos from the Hamptons Fine Art Fair opening night captured below by Nabila Wirakusumah.
Photography by Avery Savage
To close out The Shed’s Open Call: Portals series, we’re spotlighting Chelsea Odufu, a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans film, photography, sculpture, performance, and design. Her installation Gold with a Mind of Its Own explores the lasting imprint of the gold trade in Côte d’Ivoire through movement and visual language, using the body as a tool for reflection and resistance.
Now living between Abidjan and New York, Chelsea brings a global perspective to everything she creates, shaped by movement across mediums, across continents, and across dimensions of Black identity.