Artist: Aliyah Bonnette | Location: Garner, NC
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Aliyah Bonnette
Garner, NC
Aliyah Bonnette is a multidisciplinary artist working out of Raleigh, North Carolina. Working using a variety of materials, she creates painted quilts as her medium. Using bold and often abstract shapes in her background, she juxtaposes her realistic figures as a way to play with the natural comfortability of the quilts and the often-unspoken discomfort of the topics within her work. Her work focuses mainly on the black femme experience in America and pulls inspiration from various topics in the African American Diaspora or her own life experience as she navigates the world as a Black Woman in America. The figures within her work are women living in comfortable environments that allow them to reveal their authentic self. It is not the perfect form constructed by men that has been exoticized or rendered primitive, but the reality of the black woman that we see every day when looking in the mirror.
Artist Website
www.aliyahbonnette.com