Welcome to the 2024 Christmas Is For The Archousai Art Auction!
Featured Artist: Brandon Clarke
CIFTA Art Auction – A Celebration of Art, Identity, and Culture
Step into the captivating world of Brandon Clarke, whose works delve into profound themes of identity, self-awareness, and cultural legacy. As our featured artist, Clarke’s pieces challenge societal perceptions and invite introspection, making them a perfect centerpiece for this year’s CIFTA Art Auction.
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Each piece is accompanied by a dedicated purchase button—simply click the button next to your selected artwork to secure your acquisition and support this meaningful event.
Welcome to the 2024 Christmas Is For The Archousai Art Auction!
Featured Artist: Brandon Clarke
CIFTA Art Auction – A Celebration of Art, Identity, and Culture
Step into the captivating world of Brandon Clarke, whose works delve into profound themes of identity, self-awareness, and cultural legacy. As our featured artist, Clarke’s pieces challenge societal perceptions and invite introspection, making them a perfect centerpiece for this year’s CIFTA Art Auction.
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Each piece is accompanied by a dedicated purchase button—simply click the button next to your selected artwork to secure your acquisition and support this meaningful event.
Featured Artist: Brandon Clarke
Art Bio
​Brandon Clarke’s work aims to spark awareness and surprise to his viewer in order to encounter a fundamental question: “Who are you, really?” The main concept of Clarke’s art explores all the dimensions of the traditional canvas structure itself. Clarke accomplishes this by juxtaposing various techniques within the backside of the canvas to expose hidden messages. In addition, Clarke’s technique and material choices express literally and metaphorically characteristics on the canvas to imply the question of, “Who are we really within the framework of our lives?”
Clarke currently lives and works in Miami, Florida. With creative roots as a second-generation artist, Clarke’s artistic background with his grandmothers’ painters’-hand, has given him a unique way to express his work. This only validates Clarke’s multiple awards and publications. Including publications from The Miami Herald, Artist Talk Magazine, and Miami Living Magazine. In addition, Clarke was chosen to be an exhibiting artist for Point Comfort’s Art Fair, while also asked to be a guest panelist for the galleries subject of,” Images of Social Justice.” Clarke also was interviewed as a guest on several podcasts such as, The Florida Home Show Podcast in episode 15, and So Glad You’re Here Podcast episode 2. Furthermore, Clarke’s works remain in private collections across the United States and Internationally.
Artist Statement
My art focuses on the power of self-awareness through juxtaposition of form and color on a canvas. I use words, color, and compositions on a canvas to spark awareness and surprise in order to encounter a fundamental question: “Who are you, really?” The physical and visual tension in my work guides our ability to seek truth by honoring our brokenness. Although I mostly works with acrylics, spray paint, and pastels, I also encompasses other mixed media into my work when needed. This helps my viewers see the many visual entry-points and feel at liberty to apply their own experiences to the marks on the canvas. My work expresses through material, color, and context the most important part of authenticity, which is transparency.
JUICY
Juicy
30"x40" with acrylic case
Paper, pen ink, paste on canvas
$5,500
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​This art celebrates Hip Hop's Golden Jubilee of 50 years of shaping culture. Known as one of Hip-Hops most influential rapper, Bigige Smalls, “It Was All A Dream” verse cemented its self in the hip-hop diaspora in addition to American culture at large. This artistic interpretation of the creation process in song writing invites the viewer to investigate the birth of one of Hip-Hops most powerful songs with Juicy’s lyrics written on note pad paper.
TELL ME (KNOWN)
Tell Me (Known)
30"x40"
Paste, wood letters, acrylic, English mesh on back of canvas
$5,000
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​The main concept of this art explores all the dimensions of the traditional canvas structure itself, with the intent to expose many hidden messages of self-worth and identity. The technique and material choices express literal and metaphorical characteristics on the canvas to imply the question, “Who are we really within the framework of our lives?” Black encased letters embed into the back of the canvas imply the visual tension in which People of Color are fighting for recognition of our own existence.
TELL ME (WHITE)
Tell Me (White)
30"x40"
Paste, wood letters, acrylic, English mesh on back of canvas
$5000
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​The main concept of this art explores all the dimensions of the traditional canvas structure itself, with the intent to expose many hidden messages of self-worth and identity. The technique and material choices express literal and metaphorical characteristics on the canvas to imply the question, “Who are we really within the framework of our lives?” Black encased letters embed into the back of the canvas imply the visual tension in which People of Color are fighting for recognition of our own existence.
TELL ME (LOVED)
Tell Me (Loved)
30"x40"
Paste, wood letters, acrylic, English mesh on back of canvas
$5,000
​​This art work focuses on the power of self-awareness through the juxtaposition of form and color on the back of a canvas. The use of words, color, and composition spark awareness and surprise to encounter a fundamental question: “Who are you, really?” What is it like to be loved is a question most do not know how to honestly answer. The vitality of this question only solidifies one’s own belief in their own identity. The color gradient from white to black represents the contrast between opposing sides of belief and non-belief.
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