As part of our new artist collaboration series 8 Months 8 Artists for 8 Ball Community, we are releasing our first collaboration with B. Anele. We have joined forces with COME TEES by LA-based artist Sonya Sombreuil to launch this collective effort. Each month we will be releasing a new collaboration with a new artist.
B. Anele's body of work is an imaginative topography transforming familiar symbolism, influences, and commonplace objects into provocative prototypes. Being mainly self-taught, their work maintains a sense of purity; visions untouched by canonical confines. Their perspective is inherently complex; filtered through Nigerian roots, blackness, mysticism, and queerness. Simultaneously haphazard and considerate, Anele's practice is an ongoing experiment in producing physical evidence from a metaphysical exploration of existence.
B. Anele's body of work is an imaginative topography transforming familiar symbolism, influences, and commonplace objects into provocative prototypes. Being mainly self-taught, their work maintains a sense of purity; visions untouched by canonical confines. Their perspective is inherently complex; filtered through Nigerian roots, blackness, mysticism, and queerness. Simultaneously haphazard and considerate, Anele's practice is an ongoing experiment in producing physical evidence from a metaphysical exploration of existence.
B. Anele has exhibited work in group and solo shows in Houston, Austin, Oakland, Los Angeles, Portland, and New York City.
10% of proceeds will go to Blue Rose Gallery. Located in Houston, Texas, Blue Rose is a Black, Queer run arts space dedicated to hosting a myriad of creatively invested cultivations with the aim of cultural magnification and historical documentation. The space will serve as a creative sanctuary and platform for the frequently disenfranchised. Opening in February 2021, Blue Rose will focus on uplifting black, queer, fringe, & POC culture.