Khari Turner (b. 1991) is an American artist. His works are expressive of how he uses spontaneous brushstrokes very intensively, and clear depcition of the African Amerian’s features of nose and mouth, yet in chaotic and immersive texture with the various interesting effects, they are embodies of the popular culture within their community, they show a strong attitude and pride.
Even that he works with very surrealistic colourful palette with canvas, but I excessively love the monochromatic black and white in a combination with the colour and the flesh. These are ink on paper, and splash and smear use of black and white paint, so many interesting actions with the drips; scribble; bleed and smear…
The noses and lips of black skin represent my history and connection to my heritage, but they also represent the fact that people with wider noses, thicker lips, and darker skin statistically getting longer prison sentences in the US and this positive and negative is what drive the point of the work.
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