Meet Chayse Sampy,

Chayse Sampy’s artistic practice is currently focused on creating mixed media paintings that possess a sculptural quality, functioning as monuments, memorials, as memories. The works serve as an invitation to the family reunion, a return to community with those known to us and by the wake. They offer an opportunity to revel in not only our pain but in our resilience and beauty. Drawing from the enduring spirit of Black resistance, they incorporate a collage of images and materials that highlights the collaborative nature of Blackness across time and space. By incorporating mediums often associated with "craft," they convey a sense of resourcefulness, adaptability, and complexity that is integral to the Black experience, calling forth a tradition of fugitive creativity. As manifestation of W.E.B DuBois’ “double consciousness” these figurative pieces are monuments capturing the full scope of Black humanity, in all its dynamism and contradiction. Their narrative work seeks to understand a collective experience through the individual. Through found and archival images, they search for moments of connection in history and in the lives of their ancestors; Those moments when they reached beyond themselves and pulled us closer, begging us to remember who/what we are. Love