Visual Art by Azania Tripp
Exhibition: Love with Pride Art Showcase, Mall of America, June 2–July 28 2022
Materials: Mixed Media (dried baby's-breath, paper, resin, birchwood, tin foil, acrylic paint, canvas
Size: W 14inches, H 18 inch
Year: 2022
Artist Statement: Submerged in the stories of historical trauma. A face that knows the human experience of exploitation. Their koi crown and the beating sun-shapes guide them in the forever purpose of the afro-futurism.
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Title: Abortion, Phoniex, Our Magic
Size: 26 1/2 x 9.39 x 4' 3" (L x W x H)
Material: magazine (Fishing, Allure, O magazine, Garden, National Geographic, OUT, attitude), Poem by Ashley Richardson text included, fire glass
Year: 2022
Description: This piece was created for Blood of the Pavement 2022. A poem was written by Ashley Richardson.
Artist Statement: The stripes of red and black paper represent the props used at a anti-abortion rally of lynched babies hinge by red string. The red and black form a phoenix's tail and wing. Two black queer body people glide on the feathers of the mystic bird. They are supported by lionesses. A community organized by mothers. They are protected and feeding these bodies as forces try to abort these lives.
Title: Marsha P. Johnson Portrait
Material: Paper (vogue, food network), photograph by Arlene Gottfried labeled Marsha P., Johnson Circa 1979, google maps
Dimension: 20"/20"
Year| 2022
Exhibition: Love with Pride Art Showcase, Mall of America, June 2–July 28 2022
Artist Statement: A photograph by Arlene Gottfried labeled Marsha P. Johnson Circa 1979 is the center image of the piece. This activist, change-maker, and caring person with intersectionalities of being Black/African American and a transgener woman is a leader for us and the afro-centric future. She was known to wear fresh flowers, and feathers and share what she had. She provided. There are fresh vegetables, fruits, lavender, and more in the headpiece she is wearing. These items are the nourishment she provides.
Surrounding her is a map of Greenwich Village (NYC). It was home for her, and many others. A space of love in a time of horrific systemic oppression. The map is cut into shapes and surrounded by water, representing the purposeful policies that uphold the white body supremacy culture that keeps us intergenerational trauma.
At the bottom of the piece, there is a handwritten sign that reads ‘Pay It No Mind’ Marsha P. Johnson. This was a common phrase she would say. Flowers, fruits, sweets, and animals are at the roots of the piece. Representing sex, love, and closeness. We are the flamboyant collective.
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Title: Pavement
Size: 19 1/2 x 4.81 x 35 ½ (L, W,H)
Material: magazine (Fishing, Allure, O magazine, Garden, Red envelope/New Year Envelope, Food, printer paper), Poem by Ashley Richardson text included, fire glass, acrylic paint, duck tape.
Year: 2022
Description: This piece was created for Blood of the Pavement 2022. A poem was written by Ashley Richardson.
Artist Statement: Gwendolyn Brooks is illuminated on the pavement with fruits, flowers, and nourishment. Above her, is an open box that contains breathe, the breathe of murdered lives, with a heart with bullet holes behind. At the bottom of the piece in the snake of knowledge from the bible, a roasted police pig.
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Title: The Eye of White Body Suprancy Culture
Material: Magazine ( allure, O magazine, 17, Garden, Patenting, printer paper), glass, envelope
Year: 2022
Size: 24x20
Art Statement: Have you seen the popular tiktok/Instagram videos of BIPOC people doing daily tasks while taking photos/videos and they notice a white person is watching them ‘Never alone”. This is the eye that watches my family, friends, and you.
The eye of white body supremacy culture gazes at us all. The silver stand that supports the eye and head are the bars of exploitative financial wealth.
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Title: Love Story
Material: Magazine (Garden, Better Homes & Garden, wig magazine),Red Envelope New Year Paper, Postcard
Year: 2022
Size: Length-6 inches, Height- 4 inches
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Title: The Warmth You Gave Me
Size: H 10 1/2 Inches, W 81/2 inches
Material: magazine paper
Year: 2022
Description: The Warmth You Gave Me, is my explosive insides turned outward. Here is my sensual love in abundant form for you to see at last.
Title: My Love, My Kiss for you
Size: H 13 Inches, W 16 1/2 inches
Material: magazine paper, acrylic paint
Artist Description: Here is affection, here is love, here is AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) in a space where we are safe and are abundance like the growing fungi that protect the planet earth.
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Title: The Essence of Billie Holiday in Future Context
Size: H 10 1/2 Inches, W 81/2 inches
Material: magazine paper, acrylic paint
Year: 2022
Description:
Afr-futurism with the leadership and teachings of Billie Holiday. The Black acrylic painting represents the rising force of our collective universe.
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Title: Youth Protection
Material: Plywood, magazine (Garden, 2009 St. Cloud State University Calendar, red envelope new year paper), resin, acrylic paint.
H: 22 inches, W 5.5 inches, 5.5
Year: 2019
Artist Statement: Learning about trauma through my phone of children being murdered.
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Title| Detroit Water Bottle
Size| L 13 inches H 11 inches
Material| paper (Garden, National Geographic,Vogue), glass, mesh bag
Year| 2022
Description| The piece of water represents the limited access to clean water in Michigan. The large pieces of glass in the out part of the bottle represent icebergs and the melting of them. The raspberries represent ovaries.