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P.O.E.M. (Pain, Oppression, Expression, and Mend)
The background is black with white zigzag lines. There are several hands in light and dark brown, signing pain, oppression, expression and mend.
Not Black...not Deaf... But BlackDeaf
A mask in center with one side with one color and the other side with contrast color. The image is exact mirroring each other. The hand sign is Black and Deaf, one on each side, it reveals who that person is. It has African influence with geometry…
America, Amerika...The Beau...
Two women side by side have their hands in front of them. They are racially, culturally, and ethnically different. The fair skinned female, smiling on left signs "America" with close to red flag stripes weaving around them. The dark skinned female,…
Ostracizism
The face on the left side of the canvas has the golden opened hand up showing that the person is stopped from entering the black culture. The face on the right side of the canvas has the bronze opened hand up showing that the person is banned from…
Tags: Acrylic painting, ASL, Black, deaf artist, DeVIA Exhibit, Faces, Fred Michael Beam
In The Mind of Black Consciousness
A man image from shoulder and up with his hands in the air. Two outsiders' hands grabbed that black man's hands. One has the sign " gun " near the head of the man. The picture has different abstract patterns around them. It has colors gold and dark…
Tags: Acrylic painting, Black, deaf artist, DeVIA Exhibit, Face, Fred Michael Beam, hands
Still I Rise
There is an African Mask in color of brown, gold and white in the center of the canvas. It has three signs on showing in gold. The signs are "Black, Lives, and Matter. There is one sign in white, "Deaf" (seem to be erased from the canvas). The…
Once Upon A Time We Were Called....
Four abstract face images are in the painting with the golden hand signing. Each hand shows a sign "negro" (from upper left), "nigger" (upper right), "colored" (lower left) and "black"(lower right). The hands are in abstract form. It is similar to…
Tags: Acrylic painting, ASL, Black, deaf artist, DeVIA Exhibit, Faces, Fred Michael Beam
Hold Fast to Dreams
The image of the square is in gold on left top side of canvas. It represent a window shedding the blessing or scattered glory. The white bird is created in sign. (two white hands folding). the bird trying to exit the window to freedom while the black…
Tags: Acrylic painting, Black, deaf artist, DeVIA Exhibit, Dream, Fred Michael Beam, Power
