Maedusa

Shari Bryant

My portrait and narrative work is all about capturing the beauty of expression and form. I love getting my hands dirty with charcoal, pastel, and other dry mediums. My current series "Meladies: The Fantastic Black Woman" is an exploration of Black women in fantasy.

Fantasy is about escapism – imagining ourselves not as ourselves, or indifferent settings, beholden to different rules outside the confines of our normal realities. For too long, Black people and people of color were excluded from this sort of storytelling in spite of our dreams of better worlds. Black fans of escapism were sold stories about futures where they didn’t exist. Or worse – where their skin represented all that was terrifying or evil in the land.

Meladies – a portmanteau of Melanated Ladies — examines these popular tropes, reimagining Black women fantastically in roles of beauty, power, and brilliance.
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Website: sharibryant.com
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