“…when I paint an egret, a crab, or a Lowcountry landscape, I want to approach it through my own visual language. I want it to feel contemporary, unexpected, and unmistakably mine.”
For Amiri Farris, art has never been something confined to a canvas or displayed only inside the quiet walls of a gallery.
Art is on buildings and in stadiums. It is found in food and fashion, nature and architecture. It lives in history, heritage, community, and in the everyday objects we rarely stop to consider. Sometimes, it even comes to life before an audience, with Farris standing in front of a blank canvas and allowing people to watch the creative process unfold…