Lehna Huie
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Wood and Water 01
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Wood and Water 02
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Wood and Water 03
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Wood and Water (sketch with daughter)
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Wood and Water Detail 03
2021
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Wood and Water ( projection )
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A Daughter's Continuum
2020
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Moment In Time 02
2021
inks on paper
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Fear of Rest
2020
ink on paper
11x14 inches
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Leatherette
ink on paper
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Waterside (video still)
Statement
I am a multi- disciplinary artist and cultural worker of Jamaican heritage born in New York City (1988). I work in painting, installation and video on themes of diaspora, memory and fragmentation. My work is about recovering the evidence of my family’s invisible ancestral histories to better understand their lives and relationships with one another. Drawing from remnants of their vibrant and complex lives, I reinterpret their likeness through portraiture to embody reflections of multiplicities within our family dynamics. I am intrigued by divinity found in the in-between spaces within our cultural knowings that have been tucked away, protected and passed down across generations through oral history as a means of tracing back to source, while in dialogue with notions of liberation, migration and decolonization.
Mount Royal School of Art (Multidisciplinary MFA) Students
Sarah Black-Sadler 1 - not exhibiting