The Aaron Douglas Art Fair is excited to announce the 2021 Featured Artist for this years fair.
Our featured artist this year is Aisha Imani Sanaa.
Aisha Imani Lee was born August 07, 1989. Born in a family full of musicians, singers and artists, Aisha’s artistic abilities came naturally at a young age. Aisha spent her early and most formative years in the vibrant, scenic, and culturally diverse Oakland, CA. This cultivated her passion for visually stimulating objects, patterns, and images. The revolutionary spirit of the town and her mother normalized celebrating black pride, history, and culture, which also impacted her creative sensibilities. She attended the California College of the Arts, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design and began to embrace her love for painting with acrylics. Attending an art school that focused on critical-thinking and social awareness solidified her desire to create art and design that celebrates Blackness and benefits people that are often disregarded. After graduating, she began focusing on her personal life and maintained her skills by painting custom artwork. During recent years, Aisha has developed an artist identity and business named Aisha Imani Sanaa, which means Life, Faith, Art, where she highlights the beauty of black culture, resiliency, and the pursuit of new beginnings.
We have chosen her piece Rise for our featured artist piece.
Rise, 2020
36×48 Acrylic painting with photo collage on stretched canvas.
The lotus flower is an aquatic plant that grows under deep, muddy waters without sunlight. Every night it reburies itself, then reblooms with the sunrise to reveal unwithered and unstained petals. In this work of art, the lotus symbolizes the resilience and resourcefulness of the formerly enslaved Blacks that migrated to Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado to escape the violence they faced during the reconstruction period. The garments adorned with Andinkra symbols celebrate the faith, self-determination, wisdom, unity, bravery, and steadfastness they embodied while building a new beginning in black townships, such as Nicodemus. The lifting of the sacred flower compels us to resurrect and revere the spirit of those principles in order to defeat contemporary muddy waters and attain liberation.
You can contact Aisha
Email: Aisha.imani.sanaa@gmail.com
You can also find her on Facebook and Instagram:
Facebook:
https://m.facebook.com/AishaImaniSanaa
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/aishaimanisanaa/
And visit her Shopping website:
https://teespring.com/stores/aisha-imani-sanaa
Featured Artist Unveiling in the Park
