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I wanted to pay tribute to Mary Ellen Pleasant because her story as a trailblazer is not widely known, even here in the San Francisco Bay area where she called home during the latter part of her life. Her story is as compelling as it is mysterious, as she was a woman with secrets, many of them. A free Black female entrepreneur, a rarity in her day and a standing that meant she had to operate in the shadows. Her most closely guarded secret was investing $30,000 in abolitionist John Brown to help support the insurrection in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia in 1858. Though it ultimately was a failed slave revolt, it is considered a dress rehearsal for the Civil War of 1861.
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2002
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16 W x 20 H x 1.25 D in
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17.75 W x 21.75 H x 1.25 D in
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JaeMe Bereal
United States
I'm an Oakland, CA based painter and hair stylist, the latter of which provided the supports and independence to cultivate my art over the last 25 years. Music, politics and people are integral aspects to my work. Music elicits powerful visuals, politics and social issues offer opportunities to challenge and illuminate, and people's faces are multi-colored landscapes etched in a tangle of emotion and experience. My goal is to offer substance and context that bring people closer to real issues that affect us all. I regularly feature people of color, and my hope is to empower those who feel marginalized or somehow short-changed. I grew up amid the tumultuous 1970s in south central Los Angeles. Luckily, with excellent grades and scholarships, I attended UC Berkeley in 1981 for Fine Art, studying under the renowned ceramic innovator Peter Voulkos. However, due to a period of disillusionment, both politically and artistically, I dropped art completely for eight years. Upon my return in 1989, I dove in with a renewed appetite to explore past my limits. I even built an art studio and gallery inside my hair salon. At 40, I matriculated in a commercial art school, thinking to become a 3D illustrator. But it didn't take long to discover where I felt most at home, in 2D illustration and portraiture.
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