Birth of the Blues ARTISTS_Quentin Moseley or fully legible to anyone

or fully legible to anyone but yourself

I would like people who view my work to become more aware and perceptive and to pay more attention to the complexities of the world around them

Layering such disparate ideas and techniques

[I am] compulsively self-indulgent in the pleasure of making crayon tones and tusche washes on slabs of Bavarian limestone and plates of grained aluminum

the painting process

Birth of the Blues ARTISTS_Quentin Moseley or fully legible to anyoneBirth of the Blues, 2025 Woodcut Edition of 10 14 x 14 in. Collaborative Printer: Alexis Nutini Birth of the Blues (14 x 14) returns to one of the most charged images in Willie Cole's practice of the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to the United States, the Clotilda. Cole had acquired a high resolution image through the Getty and began working with it first as a sculpture, then as a print. The sculpture was part of a 2022 exhibition at