Faith Buenaventura
Professor Cacoilo
Art And Woman
January 24,2017

Nina Chanel Abney

Nina Chanel Abney was born in Chicago, Illinois 1982 who now lives and works in New York, New York. Known as an African American contemporary artist and painter, she focuses and explores her work around pop culture and racial conflict. Her use of cartoonish figures, large scale paintings, abstract images, figures, and text, all try to engulf current issues regarding race, gender, and politics. One of her many accomplishments as an artist was when she was featured, along with many other African American artist, in the "30 Americans" showcase. The exhibition focused on racial, gender, and sexual issues that society faces in contemporary culture. It also created a huge influence and recognition to artistic legacy's and communities around the world. 

     https://rfc.museum/images/stories/RFC/30A-artists-group.jpg Photo Credit: Kwaku Alston 

Nina's most recent work portrays the dangers and concerns of police brutality that is constantly taking place around our neighboring cities. A leading member of the Black Lives Matter Movement,  she tries to give people a captivating yet artistic twist to what the world is trying to prevent us from seeing. Many people have different opinions about how the police treat these individuals, wether it's justifiable or not, good or bad, lawful or unlawful. In her work, she gives her take on how these people are treated. In the image below you see a white cop forcefully handling a black male maybe because he is being racially profiled.  In this specific painting, it clearly depicts how different people of different races get treated by the law.  

The following images are more of Nina's work where she focuses her perspective on woman, gender, and her views on society.