ARTIST STATEMENT
This work is from a self portraiture series offers realms of solitude, self reflection, meditation, resilience and a quest for knowledge. This is in response to isolation and solitude as a result of having an immigrant experience. This series is considered to be narrative, neo-surrealistic and of the Afrofuturistic genre where imagined, distant and immaterial spaces are envisioned as places of refuge and inner peace.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Crystal Marshall is a visual artist based in Atlanta, Georgia, originally from Kingston, Jamaica, whose work explores the African diaspora through themes of Afro-futurism, tech-skepticism, spiritual ascension, and Black consciousness — rendered in a Neo-surrealistic figurative style that evokes isolation, self-reflection, and dreamlike imagination.
Educated at Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA), Edna Manley College of Art in Jamaica, Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art in France (on full scholarship), and SCAD University (MFA in Painting), her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, the Chrysler Museum of Art, Spartanburg Art Museum, the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in South Korea, and the Saatchi Gallery in London, with features in two issues of New American Paintings.
© Crystal Marshall