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. continue reading…