Jermaine Rogers creates fine art like paintings and silk screens, as well as rock-and-roll art posters for bands.

The work of this artist is part of the archive created by the State of L3
(No part of the Collective)

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Amalia Mesa-Bains
The Curandera’s Botanica
2008
Dimensions variable
Mixed media
Collection of Richard L. Bains
Photo: Matthew Septimus. Courtesy P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

An Ofrenda for Dolores del Rio
1984 Amalia Mesa-Bains Born: Santa Clara, California 1943 mixed media installation including plywood, mirrors, fabric, framed items and decorative elements 96 x 72 x 48 in. (243.8 x 182.9 x 121.9 cm) Smithsonian American [...]

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Design Richard A. Broeksema. Found and used chairframes, upholstered with special materials.

Richard A. Broeksema

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Black art is not about your skin color
it is about the cage
A cage as a concept that grounds us, defines us, protects us, pleases us and teases us, involuntarily and voluntarily. Human life as concept is like a cage. An absolute concept because you cannot step out of it, unless you never want to be [...]

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Humberto Vélez
Humberto Vélez’s work actively explores the possibilities of working in collaboration with different groups (artists and handcrafters, special communities, athletes, musicians and groups conformed especially for the project), in different places and cultures. The artistic projects are conceived from what he calls “the ability to create esthetics” of, for, and with these groups, according [...]

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Jeff Sonhouse creates the most tripped out jester-saint psychedelic pimps who are all standing on the verge of getting it on. Fly tinted shades, canary top hats, tight pin stripes, righteous afros, bow ties, fox pelt stoles…you get the idea!
Sonhouse’s latest work consists of portraiture. These figurative works portray fictitious persons, while also highlighting the [...]

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Jimmy Rage aka Femi Dawkins was born in St Catherine – Jamaica in 1966. He has lived in the Caribbean, New York, San Francisco, London and Los Angeles. He now lives and works between Amsterdam and Los Angeles.

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Jimmy Rage
Animated music video for the track la puerta, from the debut album “the importance of being jimmy” by jimmy rage for bodega sounds directed by joel marsden.
Jimmy Rage (Femi Dawkins) was born in St Catherine – Jamaica in 1966. He has lived in the Caribbean, New York, San Francisco, London and Los Angeles. He [...]

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Jimmy Rage aka Femi Dawkins was born in St Catherine – Jamaica in 1966. He has lived in the Caribbean, New York, San Francisco, London and Los Angeles. He now lives and works between Amsterdam and Los Angeles.

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Caramundo organize the biggest open air art exhibition ever made in Rotterdam: R.U.A- Reflexo on Urban Art

Last summer, Caramundo organize the biggest open air art exhibition ever made in Rotterdam: R.U.A- Reflexo on Urban Art – Lines, Colours and Forms of Brazilian Urban Art.
Rua in Portuguese means street. The use of public spaces as a [...]

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Travelling Concepts
By A.J. Guzman 4 State of L3
The State of L3
The project seeks a new image of communication, a new experience on the track that previous generations have left behind and a new interpretation of the concept of African identity. Therefore, The State of L3 directs its attention at the three artists and their background [...]

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A.J. Guzman 4 State of L3
Black aesthetics
Black aesthetics as a programmatic quest began in the United States of America in the last half of the 1960s and lasted until the mid-1970s, while Afrocentrism, its more expansive incarnation, erupted into public and scholarly consciousness in the 1980s and has firmly remained there. Black aesthetics was a [...]

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A.J. Guzman (Akuaigar) 4 State of L3

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Mark Bradford

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Mark Bradford was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961. He received a BFA (1995) and MFA (1997) from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall-sized collages and installations that respond to the impromptu networks—underground economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of abandoned public space—that [...]

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David Kennedy Cutler

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A.J. Guzman, Ton van Beers & Ischa Stuart 4 State of L3

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A.J. Guzman, Ton van Beers & Ischa Stuart 4 State of L3

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