Kylie Krabbe

As a conscious act of resistance against what I have seen and experienced as an epidemic of erasure and diminishment hurled at African American women and girls, my art is my remedy, an oasis and a means of redirection. Defined by a maximalist view on color that takes up space and emotion, these paintings and collages, as portraits and people-scapes, they are an imagined wish for the better parts of what currently is, what has been and what might be created in the future. In this way, my work is a universe of MORE for it’s subjects - to illuminate, clarify and beautify a landscape of survival through both hidden and unhidden terrors with wonder as a therapy and a physical path against any fog and all of the storms along the way. In this sense, my art is a weapon. As an African American woman and mother of two African American girls, my work often features them or ideas of us as a physical representation to resist, reframe and reconfigure black feminine existence.