Yaw's shoot at the Brooklyn Space showroom was featured in GQ South Africa!
A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a B.S. in Biology, Yaw was introduced to the fashion industry as a model. His love for the creative process led him to get behind the lens.
Known for a clean, soulful, crisp and aesthetically pleasing tones, his imagery shows the connection he has with the talent he photographs. Yaw’s knowledge, understanding, and background as a model gives him an edge as a photographer.
Muhammad @mfadello #shotbbyaw
Photography | @yawasiedu_
Stylist | @aliounebf
Grooming | @bamikeogunrinu
Retouching | @lydia.tzirkova
Artwork | @gray.ota
Sofas | @brooklynspace.co
Erica Mancini is a Latinx accordionist/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist based in New York City. Her eclectic repertoire explores folk music from around the world, as well as Americana, jazz, and contemporary improvisation.
Her electroacoustic solo improvisations and compositions, as well as aerial accordion circus performances, are testaments to the versatile and unique approach she has on her instrument.
Mancini’s original groups include psychedelic cumbia surf band, La Banda Chuska, and a cosmic spaghetti western project, Ghost Pony. She also can be found performing with Smokey’s Round Up, The Irondale Ensemble Project, and The Walter Thompson Orchestra.
Cozy Picnic in the Garden is an installation on view at the Brooklyn Space showroom by visual artist Siena Ward. The installation was inspired by the surrealism of Alice in Wonderland and the romanticism of French Impressionist paintings, such as Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe and Claude Monet’s Le Déjeuner.
Siena Ward is a Brooklyn based visual artist. She is not classically trained and most of her work is part of private collections.
"I took inspiration from classic paintings, but I wanted this to be ridiculous, like a fairy-tale brought to life. Giant paper flowers, little twirling clouds - it's surreal, but it's also sweet. The idea is almost like, if Marie Antoinette had a picnic, what would it look like? She'd have her parlor furniture lugged outside onto the lawn."
The blue wall was repurposed from a previous Brooklyn Space event. The artist removed all the dried flowers, staples and glue. Then she repainted it and attached the trellis. The flowers, leaves and clouds were hand cut and assembled. Then the greenery was placed along the trellis so it would seem like they were growing up it. The clouds were hung from piping in the warehouse space, allowing them to spin with the drafts
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Phillip Junor is a New York-based photographer with a particular focus on editorial, portraiture and photojournalism projects. His work has been featured in Lucy’s Magazine, Shuba Magazine, IZON Magazine, and the International Center of Photography. Phillip's work has developed over the years as he learned more about photography. The sharp, yet natural look has become a trademark he has adopted. Regardless of the style of photography he is shooting, his images have the power to transform the viewer into that moment. Phillip loves to shoot with natural light because an image taken at one angle can look completely different if he decides to take a few steps to his left. Phillip finds joy in witnessing the subject's reaction to their image; capturing multiple facets of life.
"These images that were captured in Brooklyn Space came out incredible. I love working with natural lighting and it worked amazingly on the melanated skin of the models."
Designer @keama.official
Models @shaunaleezy and @chiyokoofficial
MUA @makeupbygisell
Featuring Song sofa in indigo velvet and Song Armchair in royal blue velvet.
]]>Brooklyn Space Modern Furniture presents "What It Feels Like", a pop-up art gallery curated by Brooklyn-based artist Nicolette McClendon.
Located in Brooklyn Space's DUMBO showroom, WIFL was an immersive experience showcasing emerging Black Artists. The show highlighted the joys and sorrows of what it feels like to be an artist; to be seen; to feel unheard; or to be an Artist of color in the art world today.
The showcase opened June 19th in recognition of Juneteenth - a holiday celebrating the emancipation of enslaved Africans in the United States. McClendon chose to honor this day and the Artists of “What It Feels Like.”
“What It Feels Like” was not designed to provide answers, but to provoke questions. Curator McClendon led viewers through each artist’s process, the emotions and vulnerability of what it takes for them to create, but she also posed a question to viewers - what does it feel like to be on the opposite side of that creation, and how does it relate to one’s own life?
The collaboration consisted of many parts. Each artist was professionally shot by Azikiwe Aboagye with their work in the Brooklyn Space showroom. Video footage of the artists was taken by Black Pixel Productions regarding the question of what it feels like to be an artist of color. This footage was then edited by @ciara_leone365 and a soundtrack was created by @ghettofalsetto.
The showroom was then transformed into a gallery space. Curator McClendon rearranged the furniture, pairing sofas and artwork according to color and style. Some of the sofas were turned onto their sides so that artwork could be hung from them.
A photo wall was created through the collaborative efforts of other small businesses in the Brooklyn Space warehouse building; a contractor built and cut the W design of the wall; the curator and Brooklyn Space team sanded and painted the wood; Smooth Technology created the lettering which was then glued, piece by piece, to the wall; finally, floral design studio Olivee Floral decorated the wall with eucalyptus and roses over a number of days, staggering the roses so that they would deteriorate at different rates.
As a soft opening, Brooklyn Space hosted a Friends and Families night in which the artists were toasted with champagne and snacks, and each could spend time celebrating with loved ones. Opening night was Juneteenth; there was a great turn out, and from then on guests filtered in and out of the space for the next few weeks. The overall effect was a beautiful and thought-provoking art show that brought together many communities and challenged them to acknowledge the joys and challenges particular to Black Artists.
To collaborate with Brooklyn Space, please apply for an Artist Partnership here.
]]>Jose Espaillat is a photographer currently living in New York City who specializes in portraiture, editorial, and commercial. He has the versatile ability to take a clean portrait, but also fuse beauty and fantasy to bring any editorial to life. His work has been featured in various print publications and he is currently part of the retouching team at Ralph Lauren.
As a child born in the Dominican Republic, Espaillat always had a passion for photography. He would spend much of his time capturing photos of his peers and surroundings. Yet, it was his move in 2012 to New York City that inspired him to stop studying medicine and pursue his love. The city’s atmosphere of endless possibilities mixed with his artistic soul led him to enroll at the School of Visual Arts for a BFA in Photography where he graduated in 2018.
See more of his work at www.joseaespaillat.com or check him out on Instagram.
Featured model: Darius Dyson at Wilhelmina Models
Featured sofas: Monroe in rosé velvet and Infinity sofa in marigold velvet
]]>Quentarius Higgins is a Brooklyn-based artist who discovered the bases of his techniques in his hometown Atlanta, Georgia. In 2010, Quentarius was jobless for a year after discovering he had a skin condition called keloids, which changed the way he looked at life. After being denied multiple jobs, Quentarius saw this as a challenge and focused on creating a new style inspired by feathers using Sharpie Markers and ink, which later became his signature mode.
Quentarius moved to New York to rediscover himself and allow the beauty of the city to inspire his new body of work. Fashion, Architecture, Nature, and Human connections all helped to nurture his work. Every piece by Quentarius is hand-drawn using Sharpie Markers, Ink, PrismaColor Markers, and (sometimes) Swarovski Crystals. When viewing his work, the viewer should allow the feathers to direct their eyes for the full effect. Each line represents every ounce of strength Quentarius has had to put out into the world to combat against what society expects of him as a Black gay artist. Check him out on social media by following @qs_dream on Instagram.
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"What It Feels Like" is an immersive pop-up art gallery showcasing emerging Black Artists. The show highlights the joys and sorrows of what it feels like to be an artist; to be seen; to feel unheard; or to be an Artist of color in the art world today.
Click to reserve your spot.
Free passes available with coupon code - #WIFL
Photographer: Azikiwe Aboagye @_azikiwe_
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Nicolette McClendon is a Visual Storyteller and multi-hyphenated artist living and working in Brooklyn. A classically trained charcoal artist, Nicolette moved to New York from Miami in 2013 to continue her career in Fashion. After leaving her corporate career in New York due to the pandemic, Nicolette utilized her artistic eye for aesthetics, styling, and merchandising to start creative directing collaborative Photo Styling Projects that highlight and emphasize the work of Black Creatives around New York.
Nicolette pulls from her Caribbean heritage and her African Studies at Howard University to visually tell the stories of Pan-Africanism and the Black Diasporas through the emotion and passion found in her charcoal and photojournalistic work. She is also an advocate for pediatric medicine and care, and was a 2011 Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation Fundraiser Gala Speaker. To learn more about Nicolette, please visit nmcccreative.com and check her out on social media by following @2welve and @charcoalartist12 on Instagram.
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"What It Feels Like" is an immersive pop-up art gallery showcasing emerging Black Artists. The show highlights the joys and sorrows of what it feels like to be an artist; to be seen; to feel unheard; or to be an Artist of color in the art world today.
Click to reserve your spot.
Free passes available with coupon code - #WIFL
Photographer: Azikiwe Aboagye @_azikiwe_
Featured Sofa: Stately in Emerald Green Velvet
Featured Sofa: Infinity in Marigold Velvet
]]>Harold A. Waight Art is a Brooklyn-based Art Brand specializing in revolutionary ways of changing perception through paintings to deliver an all-inclusive experience. His work is aimed towards unifying humanity by bringing awareness to topics of interest that are of close relevance to himself and to those he loves. These pieces oftentimes reflect movements, conditions, and perceptions, including Women's Rights, LGBTQ+, BLM, HIV, Cancer, Lupus, Mental Health, and more.
Harold graduated from Miami Dade College receiving his A.S. degree in Photographic Technology and received his Image Consulting Certificate from the Fashion Institute of Technology. To learn more about Harold, please visit haroldwaight.com and check him out on social media by following @haroldwaight on Instagram.
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"What It Feels Like" is an immersive pop-up art gallery showcasing emerging Black Artists. The show highlights the joys and sorrows of what it feels like to be an artist; to be seen; to feel unheard; or to be an Artist of color in the art world today.
Click to reserve your spot.
Free passes available with coupon code - #WIFL
Photographer: Azikiwe Aboagye @_azikiwe_
Featured Sofa: Monroe in White Fabric
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Ikechukwu (Ike) Odimegwu is a comedian, visual artist, and producer who was born and raised in Nigeria before making his way to the United States in 2006. He is currently based in New York and uses the alias, "Ike slimster,” to explore his fields of interest from art and music to comedy and design.
His process varies in approach. Some of his ideas are reflections or highlights of memories and scenes to illustrate his journey from his childhood to present day, created with multi-faceted textures, colors, and light. Growing up, Ike would periodically see black marble statues, and to him, they seemed eternal, mystical, and otherworldly. This perspective influenced the nature of his style of blending, which he does by using acrylic, artfully creating a subtle softness and consistency. Ike aims for the spectator to not feel like they exist in the same reality as his work, but instead, to viscerally feel the desire to understand and form a connection. His work has been described as resembling images from African folklore or Afrofuturism, which he attests to his childhood and Nigerian upbringing, as well as fusion with his currency identity and future.
Ike studied at Queensborough Community College, and has been affiliated with The Freedom Africa Project (TFAP) and the Maasai Water Project (MWP). To learn more about Ike, please visit ikeslimster.com and check him out on social media by following @ikeslimster on Instagram.
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"What It Feels Like" is an immersive pop-up art gallery showcasing emerging Black Artists. The show highlights the joys and sorrows of what it feels like to be an artist; to be seen; to feel unheard; or to be an Artist of color in the art world today.
Click to reserve your spot.
Free passes available with coupon code - #WIFL
Photographer: Azikiwe Aboagye @_azikiwe_
Featured Sofa: Invention in Lime Green Velvet
]]>Melissa Sutherland Moss is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary visual artist narrating stories through hand-cut collages, installations, and typography. She discovered her gift of creativity after painting a portrait of her sister during an art class in high school.
Melissa soon participated in ACT-SO, a yearlong achievement program designed to recruit, stimulate, and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among the youth of African descent who exemplify scholastic and artistic excellence. Inspired by the arts, Melissa went on to earn her Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art with a concentration in Painting from Southern Connecticut University. Melissa also holds a Master of Education degree in Psychology from Springfield College in Springfield, MA.
Since launching her professional artistry career, Melissa has had the honor of features in Doodle Wars: Episode 8, AIR Gallery, Heath Gallery, The New York Coffee Festival (NYC & California), and Women Made Gallery (Chicago). Melissa’s mission as an artist is to explore and unpack every facet of her identity through her work and her community.
With two of her best friends, she founded a gallery in Brooklyn, NY called sk.ArtSpace, which serves as a safe space for creatives of color to express themselves in an environment that understands and works to preserve the integrity of their craft. sk.ArtSpace has received media coverage by Refinery29 and Forbes. At her gallery, Melissa curates exhibitions with the goal of redefining cultural narratives and sharing unique aspects of Black experiences. Her ultimate goal as an artist is to create art that grants people permission to be multifaceted and grow as a professional artist and arts administrator. To learn more about Melissa, please visit melissasutherlandart.com.
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"What It Feels Like" is an immersive pop-up art gallery showcasing emerging Black Artists. The show highlights the joys and sorrows of what it feels like to be an artist; to be seen; to feel unheard; or to be an Artist of color in the art world today.
Click to reserve your spot.
Free passes available with coupon code - #WIFL
Photographer: Azikiwe Aboagye @_azikiwe_
Featured sofa: Simplicity in Marigold Velvet
]]>Jeary Sylves is a multi-disciplinarian, creating art across mediums. He is a musician, writer, and orator, as well as a photographer, and currently serves as an assistant educator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. As an image-maker, working and living in Brooklyn, Jeary is inspired to create scenes and images that represent the nuanced, micro-moments of Black expression.
Before making his way to Brooklyn, Jeary attended Arizona State University. His goal is to preserve Black beauty and collective memory through images as a means to combat erasure via gentrification, mass incarceration, and police brutality. It has been through his exploration of Brooklyn, willingness to be vulnerable and present, as well as listen and observe while being in the community, that he has been able to concretize the purpose and intent behind his work. Jeary believes that we are remembered through the connections we make and experiences we share, and he wants to make canon the unfolding stories that are being told right now. To learn more about Jeary, please visit www.sayjeary.com and check him out on social media by following @jearysylves on Instagram and Twitter.
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"What It Feels Like" is an immersive pop-up art gallery showcasing emerging Black Artists. The show highlights the joys and sorrows of what it feels like to be an artist; to be seen; to feel unheard; or to be an Artist of color in the art world today.
Click to reserve your spot.
Free passes available with coupon code - #WIFL
Photographer: Azikiwe Aboagye @_azikiwe_
Featured Sofa: Song in Royal Blue velvet
]]>Kendrick Daye is a multimedia artist and designer currently living in Harlem, NY. His personal identity, a Black queer man, stands as the pre-eminent public place of judgment that informs his work. His diverse approach to making art includes art direction, bespoke design, music, and most notably, collage — in both digital and analog.
In the current climate where Black queer antagonism, transphobia, and homophobia are a constant and a very real threat, it is paramount for Kendrick to create work that imagines a future where Black queer life is prosperous, thriving, and valued. Through his art, Kendrick explores questions like, “What does it mean for Black queer people to have a future?” and “What does that look like?”
As imaginative as Kendrick can be visually, he is a realist and has no grand illusions that art will spark a revolution — not at least anything in a tangible sense. Kendrick has, however, been a witness — firstly for himself but also for others — to the profound changes art can have on an individual's perception, mood, and life. There is a void of work that accomplishes this, and that centers Black queer life. Kendrick creates work because his mission is to see images that laud, legislate and promulgate on behalf of a Black queer utopia, by adding art to the narrative of black queer media and defines beauty on his own terms. These images see roses through Baldwin-colored sunglasses, as pastiches – whole in and of themselves, but even more so, in the context of one another. Images of everything in one place, in distorted focus, for no other reason than for you to see it. To learn more about Kendrick, please visit kendrickdaye.com and check him out on social media by following @kendrickdaye on Instagram and Twitter.
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"What It Feels Like" is an immersive pop-up art gallery showcasing emerging Black Artists. The show highlights the joys and sorrows of what it feels like to be an artist; to be seen; to feel unheard; or to be an Artist of color in the art world today.
Click to reserve your spot.
Free passes available with coupon code - #WIFL
Photography by: Azikiwe Aboagye @_azikiwe_
Featured Sofa: Infinity in Marigold velvet
]]>Shaneika is a self-taught artist who tends to hoard and collect aspects of inspiration from her idols in her line of work. She describes her art as being both her diary and her therapist, something personal that she only chooses to share with an audience once she feels less of an emotional attachment towards it.
Based in Brooklyn, Shaneika’s art is very honest in its content, a swinging door of interchangeable style with a common undertone of color and texture. Check her out on social media by following @_cultureshock_ on Instagram.
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"What It Feels Like" is an immersive pop-up art gallery showcasing emerging Black Artists. The show highlights the joys and sorrows of what it feels like to be an artist; to be seen; to feel unheard; or to be an Artist of color in the art world today.
Click to reserve your spot.
Free passes available with coupon code - #WIFL
Photography by: Azikiwe Aboagye @_azikiwe_
Featured Sofa: Arpeggio in Marigold Velvet
]]>Lindsay is a New York City-based makeup artist with a background in client relationship management and customer service.
Her beauty makeup is clean, fresh, and ideal for fashion and/or commercial work. Her creative looks often incorporate bold shapes, bright colors, and graphic lines to create a high impact work of art.
Lindsay was named one of 2019's top editorial makeup artists in NYC by The H Hub. Also, in 2019, she was a featured makeup artist on the Allure Magazine YouTube series Triple Take.
Follow her on Instagram or check out her website www.lindsaykastuk.com.
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"What It Feels Like" is an immersive pop-up art gallery showcasing emerging Black Artists. The show highlights the joys and sorrows of what it feels like to be an artist; to be seen; to feel unheard; or to be an Artist of color in the art world today.
Click to reserve your spot.
Free passes available with coupon code - #WIFL
Photographer: Azikiwe Aboagye @_azikiwe_
Models: Ike Slimster @ikeslimster
Shaneika Marson @_cultureshock_
Featured Sofas: Monroe in Rosé velvet, Monroe in Light Blue velvet, Monroe in White fabric
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Featured sofa - Monroe in Rosé
Featured Sofa - Song in Marigold
Featured Sofa - Song in Marigold
Featured Sofa - Invention in Blue Gray Velvet
Featured Sofa - Song in Marigold
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Photography: @masatoonoda
Make-up: Anna Posokhina @anna.makeup.nyc
Hair Stylist: Kiyonori Sudo @kyo_sud
Model: Aubrey Hill @aubrey3rin
c/o @wilhelminamodels
Agent: @pierre.d.e
Outfit: @r13
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Painting: Vogue Brasil
2016
36in x 48in
Acrylic, Paper, Ash, Spray Paint, Charcoal
(message artist for pricing)
Photographer: Steve Jackson
Stylist: Maggie Lynn Stumpf
Rodney Patterson is the creative director and owner of ESENSHEL, an accessory brand based in New York and launched in 2016.
Rodney began his career as a Stylist and Visual Director at many leading Fashion companies in New York. Today, he can be found in his Brooklyn studio experimenting with shapes, proportions and sewing techniques. Rodney puts his own spin on classic accessories by pushing outside of the conventional realm and instead offers a fresh, modern take on the genre. With an emphasis on incorporating luxury details from fabric selection to the workmanship involved in custom designs,
Scroll to bottom to see Rodney's video, "do you know?".
Photography by Sean P Watters.
Sofas by Brooklyn Space.
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Stephanie Eche is a Chicana artist based in Brooklyn, NY and originally from Phoenix, Arizona. She uses found materials, natural fibers, oil, and watercolor to create soft sculptures, works on paper, and paintings. Stephanie is influenced by Huichol yarn painting, Zapotec weaving, abstraction, her personal experiences, cultural studies, and literature.
Stephanie's work would look great in your apartment or office. Please contact her to purchase.
Photography by Sean P Watters
Featuring Song sofa in marigold velvet by Brooklyn Space
"Ramona" is named after my great-grandmother and part of a series that explores the erasure of indigenous cultures as a result of colonization and capitalism, including the assimilation of my Chicana family, both in central Mexico and more recently in Los Angeles, California, and Phoenix, Arizona. Drawing inspiration from Huichol art and mythology, Zapotec weaving, my own memories, family research, and literature, I create imagery that helps me reclaim and understand my mestizo heritage.
"I'm trying to shape time.
The piece is hand woven with natural wool, wire, and a black cotton warp."
Brooklyn Space does not take a fee or commission, all art sales go directly to the artist.
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Featuring Stately sofa in rosé velvet and Ring Sideboard.
]]>Photography by Sean P Watters - shot at Brooklyn Space (68 Jay Street) on Stately sofa in light blue velvet.
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Photography by Sean P Watters - shot at Brooklyn Space (68 Jay Street).
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