Untitled ("I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance")

Sojourner Truth Parsons explores the female experience and her own mixed-race identity as a Black-Mi’kmaq–Caucasian Canadian woman through an audacious visual language. Parsons is known for mixed-media paintings featuring blocky silhouettes against flattened planes rendered in a cacophony of colors. A Nova Scotia College of Art and Design graduate, Parsons has had work featured in well-received gallery shows in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Toronto. The artist often introduces surprising elements into her paintings, from glitter, sand, glue, and ash to infusing the canvases with lavender essence. While her works are indebted to the male masters of modernism, such as Henri Matisse, they are underscored with an erotic frisson self-assured in its femininity.

Vancouver, BC, Canada