Candace Hunter Collection

"Much of my work is concerned with social inequality along both national and global fronts. My imagery explores historical moments. Moments that celebrate the beauty of a people or the necessary light upon violence against humanity, in its many forms, with special attention to the plight of women and children. 

Through research, I engage with the past and use my art to give a public and present voice to those whose voices have been silenced or just plainly, ignored. I create collage, paintings, and installations that often interweave text. Although I am well known for my collage-based work, I implement a wide variety of media to manifest my work. 

I tell stories using appropriated materials from popular magazines, vintage maps, and resourced materials, offering them back to the viewer with a sense of history and admiration of the beautiful. My mixed media artworks are sometimes applause and sometimes ranting about the effects of politics and history. By squaring off the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, I absorb the tradition of remembrance art into daily practice. This personal storytelling is important as an act of meditation and mediation.

My work is rarely conceived as a single piece but is instead imagined as an entire body of work around a central theme, such as the 32 pieces in Hooded Truths (2014), which also includes installation and performance.  In addition, I make use of text and performance in my work to strengthen the voice.  My practice is socially engaged, personally, in my interaction and collaboration with other artists, and politically, in my activism through my work."