Jaqulin Joseph · New Orleans
Memory takes form.
Through painting, mixed media, sculpture, photography, and found material, Jaqulin Joseph explores the body as witness—carrying ancestry, womanhood, rupture, survival, and transformation.
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Artist statement
The body remembers what history tries to bury.
I create where memory, culture, and imagination meet. Across canvas, bronze, photography, and found material, faces and bodies become vessels for what has been inherited, survived, protected, and transformed. The materials change, but the human presence remains.
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Painting · assemblage · relief
Selected work
Natural wood, bark, roots, and found materials · 12 × 16 × 3 in
Roots Remember
Weathered fragments hold the record of storms, seasons, and survival. What the earth releases is gathered into a meditation on ancestry, renewal, and belonging.
Original painting
New Woman (Enlightenment Within)
A female body rises as its own landscape—grounded, imperfect, alive, and illuminated by an inner knowing.
Acrylic on canvas · 30 × 30 in
Solar Push
Circles, grids, and bands of color chart the unseen energies that pull, turn, and carry a life forward.
Mixed-media assemblage
We Built Anyway
Branches, bark, wire, and found material form a city built from refusal. When the ground shifts and the world says no, we build anyway.
Mixed-media assemblage · c. 2021–2022 · 15 × 31 in
Bloodlines: Still We Rise
The body becomes a vessel of inherited wounds and tremendous strength. Cloth remains; memory binds; survival becomes transformation.
Mixed-media assemblage
I Have Seen. I Remember.
Film pours from a form that may be body, mouth, womb, wound, or threshold. Memory refuses one reading—and refuses erasure.
Cloth and acrylic on wood · 2006 · 47 × 19 in
Katrina
Cloth and layered surfaces carry floodwater, debris, wounds, and history. The water receded. The memory did not.
Mixed media · 2026 · 14 × 11 in
Ibrahim Traoré — Burkina Faso
A portrait engaging African sovereignty, dignity, independence, and self-determination.
Mixed media · 2026 · 14 × 11 in
I See You
An unbroken gaze meets a dense accumulation of line, texture, and material.
Mixed-media abstract
What Remains Untranslated
Printed language disappears beneath earth color and texture. Meaning becomes something felt before it is understood; fragments endure as evidence of another voice.
Mixed-media relief assemblage · 30 × 30 in
What the Body Holds
A weathered form hovers between vessel, torso, shield, and relic. Burden does not empty it; endurance slowly becomes armor.
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Exhibitions · acquisitions · studio inquiries