BRITTANY MONA’
About the Artist
Keep The Lights On, Black Homes, acrylic paint, acrylic marker, oil pen, oil pastel on plywood, 33” x 29”
Brittany Mona' is a self-taught abstract-expressionist artist whose work emphasizes Black faces, culture, heritage, and influences across the African diaspora. Their inspiration pours from Black culture, ancestral downloads, and the Black community. Patterns, lines, shapes, and symbols are reflected throughout their pieces to stay rooted and pay homage to her ancestors. These elements are used as communication tools in the Black community from hairstyles to body art, fashion, fabrics, garments, and tiles. Mona’ works with various mediums including spray paints, acrylics, pastels, and clay. Combining elements of new-expressionism, graffiti, and African art, they create mixed-media abstract figurative images, sculptures, and collages of the Black diaspora to celebrate, uplift, and communicate complex emotions of Blackness. Their work navigates and encourages Black liberation through visual depictions and influences of Black culture, community, sustainability, joy, and expression. Serving as a reminder of the many ways that these concepts intersect, Mona’ creates art that is bold in color and complex in shape and style to stand out as an extension of the community members it reflects. Their work encourages reflections and inspires change. Mona’ additionally participated in a number of group exhibitions, such as The Queer Art Salon, Dupont Underground’s Second Annual Women’s Art Show, as well as La Cosecha’s collection in correlation with Women’s History Month, and SH Gallery Volume 4 at Shanklin Hall in a collection celebrating Black culture and the Black artist, all in 2024.
Artist website: www.brittanymona.com
Instagram: @brittanymonacreates
My Ancestors Vessel, acrylic paint, acrylic marker, oil pen, oil pastel, and spray paint on plywood, 48” x 32”
Nephews Wash Day, acrylic pint, acrylic marker, oil pen, and spray paint on layered plywood, 29” x 32”
Made By Black, acrylic paint, acrylic marker, oil pastel, and spray paint on plywood, 33” x 29”
Ends Meet, acrylic paint, acrylic marker, oil pen, spray paint on layered plywood, 32” x 48”
Hey Auntie/The Weird Sister acrylic paint, acrylic marker, oil pen, and spray paint on layered plywood, 30” x 24”
My Brother’s Keeper, acrylic paint, acrylic marker, oil pen, and spray paint on layered plywood, 13” x 16”