I paint what I haven't figured out how to say yet.

These are the ones that made it out

The masks, the checkerboard, the gold — these are the recurring elements. A visual language built to say what Black womanhood carries, performs, survives, and chooses.

ARTWORKS
Love Language 2023 Acrylic on canvas. Solo Exhibition (as MUZEUME), Homme Gallery, Washington, D.C. Sits at the center of my practice — the charged, untranslated space between Black women and Black men. They are both in love, both trying. His love
The Saint 2025 · Acrylic on canvas Solo Exhibition (as MUZEUME) · Homme Gallery, Washington, D.C. She is dressed for Sunday. Bible in one hand. Ballet shoes in the other. This is the portrait of a duality every Black Southern woman knows — the archit
Deep Love 2026 · Acrylic on canvas Deep love can be dark — but not in the ways of society. Dark is just rich in deepness. The color of our love. I remember looking in your eyes and seeing darkness. The same eyes that gave me comfort — for I knew, the
The Singer 2025 · Acrylic on canvas Music was never simple for me. It was fear as much as it was love. A relationship I couldn't leave and couldn't fully enter. This painting is the dream version — me as Mary, microphone in hand, a packed room at my
Sisters We Chose 2025 · Acrylic on canvas Currently on view at Elizabeth City State University Library Black women find each other in rooms not built for them. This painting is about what happens after that — the choice to stay, to watch, to build so
Miss Communication 2023 · Acrylic on canvas We are speaking. We are not reaching each other. This painting lives inside the gap between Black men and Black women — the one we inherited, the one we keep reopening, the one that exists even when the lov
E.T.D.S. (Even The Devil Smiles) 2025 · Acrylic on canvas · Commercial album commission Album artwork for IDK's 2025 studio album. Distributed across all major streaming platforms. MOCA × IDK exclusive collaboration, MOCA Los Angeles. Featured in IDK
The Devil Is From DC 2024 · Acrylic on canvas Featured inside the vinyl · IDK, E.T.D.S. (2025) IDK is from DC. He also went to prison. This painting came from listening to what that made him — the time spent, what it does to a person, what survives i 
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E.T.D.S. (Even The Devil Smiles)

Featured in · IDK Dissect Podcast · Netflix (February 2026) · MOCA × IDK, Los Angeles

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Additional work available on request.

The Devil Is From DC

Part of the E.T.D.S. album rollout · Featured inside the vinyl

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Commission

Some of these started as a feeling I couldn't name. If you have one of those, we should talk.

I take a small number of commissions each year.

Not every request is the right fit — and I'll tell you that honestly if it isn't. But if something in this work is calling to you, reach out. Tell me what you're holding. We'll go from there.

Inquire

  • You reach out. Tell me what you're holding — a feeling, a space, a person, a moment you want to keep.

    I'll tell you honestly if I'm the right person to make it.

  • Every commission is a conversation before it's a painting.

    We figure out together what the work needs to be — the size, the feeling, the weight of it. From there I'll give you a timeline and we move.

  • Pricing is based on size, complexity, and timeline.

    I don't list prices here because no two pieces are the same. Reach out and we'll talk through it.

  • I take a small number of commissions each year.

    Not because of scarcity — because each one gets my full attention. If the timing isn't right I'll tell you, and we can talk about what's next.

DeNesha Deans recording sound on the floor of her New Orleans studio, 2025