Art Files: Cheyann Washington
The Propagator, Oil on canvas, 74 x 34 inches, 2023.
The Sun, Oil on canvas, 72 x 33 1/2 inches, 2023.
The Gardener, Oil on canvas, 74 x 34 inches, 2023.
In her series The Brain The Seed, Cheyann Washington introduces the audience to her work with colors, silk fabrics, gestural charcoal drawings, and anthropomorphic plants. She showcases the variety of different materials she has experimented with. Her figures appear warm and gentle as if they have always been among us as creators and protectors. Through her paintings, she visualizes natural phenomena such as photosynthesis, metamorphosis, and the cycles of the sun and moon. Her studies in natural medicine and ethnobotany are further extended by this process. The imagery in Washington’s paintings consists of the movement of bodies, and seeds growing into plants which are influenced by the examination of her own body and the numerous plants living in her home.
Cheyann Washington is a painter from Los Angeles, California. Represented by Wonzimer Gallery for the last two years, Washington's studies encapsulate the essence of human behavior and the figure as it mirrors nature. This conversation has been developed through numerous techniques and practices including drawing and painting. Her most recent series of natural pigment works on silk and homemade paper also depict the nurturing bond that we all hold or maybe that which is holding us. This process extends her studies into biology and natural medicines such as ethnobotany and personal studies which examine her own body. The evolution of Washington's work connects us back to the ultimate understanding of this system in which both imbalance and balance live within us.
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