A visual artist and writer, A’Driane Nieves is a U.S. Air Force veteran and a self-taught painter. At the urging of her therapist, she began painting as a form of art therapy in 2011 during her recovery from postpartum depression and following her later diagnosis of bipolar disorder. This initial experimentation led to her using Abstract Expressionist painting styles as a way to overcome the impacts of childhood abuse, specifically emotional suppression. Influenced by Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Bernice Bing, and early Black abstract painters ranging from Alma Thomas to Mary Lovelace O’Neal.
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