Numa Perrier is an artist, filmmaker, and entrepreneur working in Los Angeles.  Her work deals largely with the female spirit and sensuality.  She comes from a layered family mix of Haitian roots, Southern America, and a West Coast upbringing, which has developed a nuanced and textured approach to life and art.  As a photographer, Numa has explored the experience of Ugandan sex slaves, bi-racial adoption, dolls as a microcosm for the state of women, and many more issues specific to her life.  As a filmmaker her focus again explores the most intimate segments of womanhood dissecting mother/daughter relationships and abstractly defining La Petite Mort, the French term for the little death/orgasm.

Numa’s work on the AUDACIOUS! Betty Davis tribute comes at a time when she feels the wild woman is begging to be set free.  She has imagined and created this “lost footage” as an honor to a woman who has personified the feral uninhibited nature that she would like all women to claim a piece of. Gallery Reception, Friday February 5, 2010 6-9-PM. Exhibit runs through March 28, 2010

Shantrelle P. Lewis is the former Executive Director for the George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art in New Orleans, LA. She is the co- founder of the Young Friends Society which she developed, while working as a volunteer at the African American Museum of Philadelphia, to address the need for a more active involvement in the arts amongst the 20-40 age demographic. Currently, Ms. Lewis is the Director of Programs and Exhibitions of the Franklin H. Williams Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in New York.

Chicago ARTchitecture celebrates the unique Chicago landscape as interpreted by four artists: Kathleen Eaton, DeMarcus Parham, Lauren Karrenberg and Kyle Wolff. This collection of artists bring forth a unique view of the city’s famed bungalow row houses, towering skyscrapers and ethereal suburbia fields.

For inquiries about the artwork featured in this show, please contact Maya-Camille Broussard at maya@threepeasartlounge.com or 312.624.9414

One of the twelve featured artists for Chicago Artists Month 2009 (sponsored by the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs), Williams presented a prolific and engaging show entitled Chicago Works.

The title is a double entendre, meaning that Chicago is functional and operational, but it’s also a phrase coined during the Harold Washington administration.   This show related to the Chicago Artists Month’s theme of “2.0” in which it refers to the “concepts of interactivity and connectivity associated with Web 2.0., and highlights the ways in which artists interact with their audiences…” Williams’ work has always been about connecting to other people through their stories and life experiences. While using social media networking sites, such as Facebook, she is currently working on a project that closely explores traditional color theory and the polychromie palette of famed Swiss architect, LeCorbusier. In using various social media networking sites, she is able to draw from her “friends” thoughts and status updates to add visual text to her work.

Check out our interview with Williams (music by escointernational.com):

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