His paintings' brilliant palettes and dynamic patterns-inspired in part by West African textile designs-transform his canvases into portals, inviting viewers to dive within. "Choosing color is ...

Historically, African consumers don’t care about flawless precision, but tend to see other values in textiles like the fabric’s origins, colors, patterns and signs, Sarlay thinks. Belinda ...

And those different patterns have a message. "Africa is a vibrant, electric continent. Not a country, a continent. Each piece of that continent has different aspects," London said. But color is a ...

Each painting is a fusion of traditional patterns and rich colors, woven with contemporary ... blending traditional African patterns with contemporary art forms to create a distinctive style.

Certain characteristics came to be associated with African American quilts made in the rural South: improvisation; asymmetry; large-scale patterns; and bold, contrasting colors. In recent decades ...