"Chatmon: Is there a redemptive power in visual arts? Do artists have the ability to control and shift the narrative through their work? These are questions that inform my creative process. I believe both to be true. In the same way that literature continues to be a tool for shaping the human psyche, I believe visual arts carry the same ability'"
"Chatmon embellishes her prints with hand-applied acrylic paint, 24-karat gold leaf, semiprecious stones, beads and other materials. She frames her portraits in gilded antique or contemporary baroque-style frames. These interventions give Chatmon's subjects a gravitas that often belies their youth and confronts the absence, exclusion and devaluation of the Black body in Western art Chatmon's work presents an unyielding affirmation of Black beauty and strength"
Chatmon creates large, gilded portraits of Black children that draw stylistic inspiration from Gustav Klimt's golden phase and medieval religious icons. She embellishes prints with hand-applied acrylic paint, 24-karat gold leaf, semiprecious stones, beads, and other materials. She frames portraits in gilded antique or contemporary baroque-style frames to confer gravitas and confront absence, exclusion, and devaluation of Black bodies in Western art. She restores and repaints antique cloth dolls, dresses them in richly detailed outfits, and positions them as heirlooms within compositions. Her studio practice centers on photography intensified by meticulous staging, manual interventions, and digital manipulation.
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