Najee Dorsey | |
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| Born | January 26, 1973 Blytheville, Arkansas |
| Known for | Visual Art |
| Spouse | Seteria Dorsey |
| Website | najeedorsey.com blackartinamerica.com/ |
Najee Dorsey (born 1973) is a contemporary American visual artist known for using mixed-media, collage, paint and photographic works that depict Southern African American experience and culture.
Najee Dorsey was born Jan. 26, 1973 in Blytheville, Arkansas. [1] He began creating art from a young age, but in 2005 became a full-time artist after a move to Atlanta, Georgia. His art can be seen in various art institutions and private collections across the United States. In 2010, Dorsey created Black Art in America (BAIA), a media web site that provides access and exposure to black art and artists and facilitates connections between artists, collectors and art enthusiasts. [2] Dorsey and his wife, Seteria Dorsey (also a visual artist, and his business partner), live in Columbus, Georgia. [3]
Najee Dorsey has used collage to convey the experience of growing up in the South, including his own childhood in Mississippi County, Arkansas. His art has consisted of painting, photographs, digital and mixed media forms. Dorsey creates collages that focus on Southern African American culture. His art has been known to highlight such themes as the Blues, black people within United States history and socioeconomic conditions of the South. [4] His newest work, titled The Poor People's Campaign (an homage to Martin Luther King's program for economic justice) focuses on the themes of afrofuturism and environmental racism in poor communities in the South. [5]
Dorsey has exhibited his work at many galleries and institutions, including:
Art and Public History: Approaches, Opportunities, and Challenges, edited by Rebecca Bush and K. Tawny Paul [24]
Cool Jobs: ‘Artrepreneur’ Uses Web to Expose World to Artists of Color [2]
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