Dorothy Dandridge by Armando Alleyne
Armando Alleyne
Dorothy Dandridge, 2024
16 x 20 in.
Starting Price: $300
About the Work
Parallel to his practice of painting portraits of Black icons, he allows elements of his lived experience to take form in his work.
About the Artist
Armando Alleyne’s painted and collaged renditions of jazz musicians, Afro-Latin singers, boxers, but also family members and friends have a rhythm all-their-own. Parallel to his practice of painting portraits of Black icons, he allows elements of his lived experience to take form in his work. Never shying away from the seminal, the sensual or the political, Alleyne’s lifetime of paintings tell a story of how we are subject to our city and how in it we can search for the tools to heal. Armando Alleyne (b. 1959, New York) grew up in Lower Manhattan and graduated from The City College of New York with a B.A. in Education and Fine Arts, in 1983. He lives and works in Brooklyn.