'Breaux’s ever-expanding universe includes fashion, graphic design, mental health advocacy, kids’ TV shows, video game design . . . you name it. What permeates his work is a sense of beauty, kindness, and intelligent simplicity.' | chicagolooks
project, I heard you say you only had one Black art teacher, Ms. Jackson. How did this teacher impact you?
Ms. Jackson was one of the coolest, most laid-back relationships I had with a teacher. I didn’t have an art teacher until seventh grade. We had an “art cart” but it wasn’t consistent. With Ms. Jackson, it was the first time we had an art room and work space to hang out. So I would go there and eat my lunch and finish up work, and just hang out. She was very kind, and called us all baby, like “Hey baby, how you doin’?” She was an artist and a sculptor and still is..
“BIG WORDS” generally relates to dense or inaccessible language and how language can be used to express status, value, or money. Class is at the heart of it, in terms of which people can afford the education to learn that vocabulary. In the show there are no big words in that sense. They are very common terms, SEEN or LORD.
Do you have any direct influences on your paintings? Your work is evocative of Kerry James Marshall and Kehinde Wiley. What are some similarities and differences you see between your work and theirs?
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