a’driane nieves

returning to the studio after my annual 8 week break has been rougher than in years past due to more severe Raynaud’s attacks wreaking havoc on my hands this winter. also: boredom. i truly hated the first 3 paintings i did last month as i started to ease my way back in. but today? i’m BACK back 🙂‍↔️🙌🏾

If we really put the welfare and well-being of children—ALL CHILDREN—first, it would be the first time we’ve ever done such a thing. And it would change everything.

This is why I talk (A LOT) about children’s personhood, children’s rights, caring for them, and how we choose to set examples. I’m not some bleeding heart. I am convinced that that’s the only way to see true long-lasting progress, the likes of which has never been seen in human history.

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So thrilled to hear this. Sending you strength for the artist statement writing. Always the part I despise the most lol

We must give them our silence: Six Women Artists, Zona Maco 2025 What happens if we carry on as before, turn away, and take control with our indifference?

ok in other news, a bit of press about a work I had on view last month at Zona Maco in Mexico City. thrilled and grateful to have it included: whitehotmagazine.com/articles/wom...

my 14yr old just said that RFKJr looks like a big toe after it’s been in the shower or pool too long and i am struggling to breathe/stop laughing, HELP

No One is Coming to Save Us But Us. Introducing "The People's Project."

I’m so excited to reveal the cover of THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT.

@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and I have spent the last few months reaching out to the people we ourselves turn to for clarity and hope. This anthology of twenty-six writers is a community in book form.

Commission your friends for art. Give them dollars (this makes them happy) in exchange for drawing you like (this makes you happy). This is symbiosis. This is a healthy ecosystem.

Support your friends. Support art. Support your friends' art.

mars finally stationed direct.

sure, venus is about to go retrograde, but mars’ forward motion is a welcome reprieve from the slog of the last two months.

whew.

ever! 💅🏽

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new Moon Girl & Devil
Dinosaur episodes have dropped!

Cannot wait to see what you do with them. I have totes of dried forms & skins that i still don’t know what to do with.

cobbler update: heaven

Excited to have two pieces up at Brea Gallery as part of the exhibition Bitter/Sweet. Opening reception is this Saturday, February 1st 5-7pm. Hope to see you there!

made a second one that’s just peach for good measure because it has been a “we need two cobblers STAT” type of day. or maybe it’s just me that needs both.

cobbler making time (a peach & blueberry mix i’ve perfected over the last couple of years that the fam LOVES)

an open notebook with lined paper sits on a desk with a dark green desk pad. a purple fine point pen is next to the notebook on the right. the text written on the paper in thick purple ink reads “space for emotional freedom. centering our emotionality and its expression unapologetically. championing our emotional intelligence.”

unexpectedly found this in my camera roll from 2023…timely reminder as i reflect on (my) art & (its) purpose(s).

Reimagining Black Identity, Strength, and Vulnerability
Curators by Renee Baker and Wisdom Baty

OH Art Foundation 2nd fl of Zhou B Art Center, 1029 W. 35th St. Chicago, IL 60609
Exhibition Dates: 1/17/25- 3/16/25

Thank you Renee Baker, Wisdom Baty, and the Oh Arts Foundation

handwriting sample for my next neon text (it’ll be attached to a big ol’ painting).

the text/literary reference: Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem about Paul Robeson🔌⚡️

Picture is of a large quilt in shades of red white and blue. The white and blue make a serene background. Red triangles punctuate and disrupt

Apropos of nothing and everything, a quilt I made in 2020-21 about fear and anxiety and red hats.

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ok. i’ll bite.