MY ART SHOP IS FINALLY OPEN!! You can now order original prints right off my website. Go check it out and support your local Harlem World artist! I have six art prints available, including this digital painting above titled THEM. This is probably one of my favorite 2022 paintings. It’s a metamorphosis of an old sketch I created a few years ago. The process represented a rebirth from the artist I was into the artist I am today in the here and now.
I appreciate your support and hope you enjoy my work.
A new year means new artwork!! Check out my latest drawings here and on Instagram @hughespictures. Let’s hope 2022 is the year I will finally get my shop open.
In 1977 Frankie took a DJ job at the Chicago club, the Warehouse. His club sets were so notorious that they began asking for his “warehouse music” in records stores. The name was eventually shorten to “house music” and the genre was born.
Frankie went on to host his own club The Power Plant from 83’ to 85.’ Without his original remixes of disco, R&B, post-punk, and synth music; the culture behind electronic dance music would cease to exist!!
So say hello to my depiction of the creator and Godfather of House, Frankie Knuckles.
Without coming to terms with our past we won't be able to move forward into the future, society as we know it will start to disintegrate. Coming to terms with our past includes recognizing the silent heroes who have worked to build the foundation for our present society (good and bad). To represent the unsung heroes of our past, I chose Shirley Chisholm. She was ahead of her time. She was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress in 1968 and the first African American woman to run for president in the 1972 election. Although she did not succeed, she kept her seat in Congress until 1983. Located on the left, Shirley and her staircase represents the societal structure of the past (only a select few manage to make it to the top). There are also many heroes in the present moment who are working towards creating a more positive collective future. To represent those heroes, I chose Stacey Abrams. Most recently, Stacey Abrams and her organization Fair Fight stopped some of the new systematically discriminatory voting regulations from becoming a law in Georgia. Her staircase represents the society of a future, one in which we can lift one another up to make it to the top together.
I created sixteen characterizations of each human personality types in Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) <— Click this for a breakdown of each character’s personality type.
This test was developed by Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs over the 19th century and is widely recreated today, but the reliability of this test in a professional setting is debated. Their mission was to help people understand themselves on a profound level and educate others about ours individual differences in hopes that this would lead some to live happier better lives.
My guy is inspired by one of many subway altercations I witnessed being a dedicated NYC MTA patron. He didn’t look like this but his words were identical.
An old friend of mine from Illinois commissioned me to recreate this themed logo for him. Check out the mask decked out in Chicago motifs!!