kokeb
kokeb is a multimedia artist from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Los Angeles and Bay Area California. Her work seeks to reframe, sometimes quite literally, Black beauty and Black multiplicity through art and a social justice lens. Her notable mural, the roads we’ve been, has been transmuted through music and performance art by Spleen. Kokeb is often inspired by poetry and will paint in response to a collection of poems, or a body of work. Several of her paintings have been featured on book covers of such poetry books, and bodies of work and has exhibited her work internationally. She lives in the Bay area with her family and houseplants.
choice of medium
kokeb’s choice of medium is often times acrylic on canvas. most of kokeb’s work is done in response to poetry books, art or other inspiring life events, creating a communication between creator and creator. you, as a recipient of the art, are thus invited into this intimate conversation, and are asked to respond, question, participate, listen, absorb, learn and teach. the art is not the art, the art is you.
