"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 Nabila Wirakusumah
I first stumbled across Nia Winslow’s work, totally by accident, and there was a piece titled “Secret Keeper” which I couldn’t believe was entirely paper because of the intricacies and detailing of the bobos and barrettes that took me back to my childhood. While digging deeper into her catalog I was shocked to realize her art is entirely collage and paper-based. The level of detail and intention behind her work is so incredibly impressive and even more so once I learned she was self-taught and only started making art in 2019!! Nia’s collages connect the Black and African diaspora by portraying our shared experiences from the seemingly mundane to the more poetic while simultaneously using unique strips of paper to also highlight we are not a monolith and to honor our diverse range of cultures.