Ten paintings. Four acts. A single continuous arc — from presence and purpose, through extraction and erasure, to the full machine rendered at cosmological scale, closing on a single flower that is still here.
I paint the conversations that society quietly ignores. Not the conversations people are afraid to start — the ones the larger public never gets to.
The interior experience of being Black in America. The way systemic forces refuse to announce themselves. The way exploitation wears the face of opportunity.
My work moves from the intimate outward — from a single figure, a single gesture, a single moment of recognition — to the structural forces that shape Black life without ever naming themselves. The paintings don't explain. They hold.
Andre René Epps Jr. (b. Chicago) is a painter whose work renders Black interior life as a layered surface where memory, system, and self collide.
Working in Golden professional acrylics, Sennelier oil stick, and R&F encaustic sticks on yellow ochre toned canvas, Epps builds paintings that move from the intimate and psychological outward to the structural forces that shape Black life in America without announcing themselves.
His debut series, Everything They Didn't Tell Me, is a ten-painting work in four acts — Micro, Collision, Macro, Resolution — tracing a single continuous arc: from presence and purpose, through extraction and erasure, to the full machine rendered at cosmological scale, closing on a single flower that is still here.
The artist lives and works in Atlanta.
Atlanta, Georgia · By Appointment
