Lauryn Levette
Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)
2024
Oil and acrylic on canvas
20 x 20"

Artist Statement
Painting and drawing allows me to express the complexity of the body concerning the Black figure in a western art historical canon. My work exists in a dreamscape to capture the subconscious mind, which is considerably the most vulnerable part of us all. It is in conversation with the Afro-surrealist movement in an effort to subvert the notoriously white male dominant genre. Implementing gestural marks, distorted figures and saturated color palettes allows me to communicate various psychological spaces based on personal narrative.

Artist Bio
Lauryn Levette sets her colorful figurative works in a dreamscape capturing the subconscious mind, elevating agency and power in Black women. Her paintings and drawings reference personal narrative, pop culture, and spirituality to explore themes of the self, the power of introspection and learning to assert comfort and vulnerability in a world that is still learning to value it. Levette graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2021. Her art has been exhibited in several fairs, auctions, solo and group shows across the U.S. as well as internationally for venues such as Soho House, Untitled, Miami, and WACO's Wearable Art Gala. She is recognized in publications for Artsy, Juxtapoz Magazine and RISD Museum.

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