Introspective Noir

Pierre Jean Baptiste is a Haitian-American figurative painter from Flatbush, Brooklyn. After the passing of his mother, Pierre took a serious approach to learning about art , turning to it as a positive outlet toward healing and controlling his emotions.
Pierre’s work highlights the Black American experience and with each series, he sheds light on intricate, motivated topics, providing culturally relevant to expressions of resilience. Pierre uss various mediums, including mix, media acrylic, oil paint, oil pastels and sometimes collating on his canvases. He utilizes his skills to convey the untold stories of black people surrounding his native home with visual provoking painting on self-identity, police brutality, racial justice, and communal relations.
Growing beyond the need for superheroes in today’s society, as a father himself, Pierre also expresses the importance of a black family dynamic and his views on the role of parenthood to black children.
He currently works in Brooklyn, New York, where he resides with his Fiancé and two daughters.

Miami Artist and studio owner, Addonis Parker, is, at the very least, an accomplished man of many talents. Nicknamed “Giant” as a child for his now 6’ 8” frame, he is just a kind and gentle an artist as he is a father, husband, and community man. After high school, Addonis attended Broward Community College in Florida majoring in Art and Computer Science until 1995. In 1996 he attended Maris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia obtaining continuing education credits in Art History & Music, and started an AUC Center art group there from 1997 to 1998. It was then that Addonis became involved in after-school and community based art programs as the Program Director for recreation art, and science classes at YMCA.
His love of, and talent for, art is almost innate. Inspired by family, life experiences, and his own struggles with life in the inner city even after being homeless himself for a while , Addonis made the decision to give back to the inner city by teaching art and establishing art programs for inner city kids in Miami. From the YMCA to group homes for boys and the juvenile justice system to his own Art Forever Studio in Miami, Addonis is striving to reach the hearths and artists minds of at risk youths. The titles he has held in that regard have almost been as many as the awards he’s received and pieces he had done for several city and state governments, major corporations, and educational facilities.