marker, paint, glue and chunky gold glitter
on 12”x12” square
gold metallic cardstock
These two gorgeous, requested works by the most gorgeous and extraordinary artist and person Mz. Lajuana Lampkins of Chicago.
You may find her making her art in the late night scene of her favorite spots in the Wicker Park/Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago — or reach out to her on Instagram at Lajuana.Lampkins1 and peruse her art, her process and her community.
Lajuana Lampkins has had her art exhibited many times to great review and success and has edited and published a book of her late son’s essays, poetry and letters: The Collected Works of Prince Akbar AKA Jus Rhymz.
She is a poet, community member and activist, writer, rapper, historian, archivist, fashionista, paralegal, social commentarian and modern philosopher — and most proudly, a mother, grandmother and great grandmother
— and to me, she epitomizes the Crone.
Muhammad Ali
Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Her work may be exhibited again in autumn 2023 in a community art show that she is creating and developing, and she aspires to publish her next non-fiction book in the nearer future.
She is also the subject of the forthcoming documentary “My Mother is An Artist” which follows Mz. Lampkins’s journey from 2019, eight years post-release from a 30 year incarceration as a wrongfully prosecuted and convicted young woman and mother —to 2023, as a working, locally-renown and yet-still-struggling artist living in these American systems of modern oppression and exploitation.
Please support the work of Black Women artists, especially hers.
Mz. Lampkins accepts commissions from anywhere in the U.S., and she can create portraits or personal pieces from your photos (single photo or multiple photo composites) and pieces based on specifically requested subject matter. She also offers and mails pieces from her fantastic, ever-evolving portfolio of contemporary, provocative, risqué, celebrity, sublime and timeless imagery.
“Greatest Ass Whooper!”
These two pieces will be identically matted and framed – one will go to my son as a belated birthday gift — and when I’m gone, he will have both – as intended as a set.
“Greatest Ass Whippa!”
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Bundini Brown
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