Astri Snodgrass

Astri is an artist and educator based in Boise, Idaho who was recently recognized by the Hopper Prize. Her practice is born of a sense of playfulness, and engages with craft as a language, family histories, the passage of time, and daily domestic tasks (like compost, cycling the old with the new to create fertile territory).

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Ainsley Burrows

BmoreArt notes Ainsley’s exhibition Raktism and Metachaos. Burrows’ practice mainly uses two methodologies: NeoChaos and Raktism. The former is characterized by expressive gestures and lines, and deep, passionate swaths of color. With it, he explores the reverberations of a history that continues to affect him, showing how the past is alive and how we must make its legacy visible.

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Atta Kwami

Larry Ossei-Mensah predicts to Artsy that abstraction by artists of color will become even more prominent in 2023. The genre, Ossei-Mensah believes, is essential to shifting the public’s belief that artists of color should only make representational work that is immediately legible. He refers to Atta.

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