Immerse yourself in the exquisite collection of paintings created between 2023-2024, each a stunning tribute to the power and grace of the goddess archetype as well as interdimensional travels.
Eleven El Gahada is a multi media artist, model, author and ceremonialist. They have studied, art, religion, and meditation vigorously resulting in a body of work that serves as the meeting place for ancestral recovery, healing, and decolonization of spirituality and beauty. They graduated from Arts High School and received their bachelor's in art from Cooper Union. They have studied in Ghana with Birthright to Africa and studied at Peters Valley School of Craft. In 2024 they completed two artist residencies, Paul Robeson Gallery Artist in Residence in Newark NJ, and the ResiliArt Angola residency in West Africa.
Welcome to the journey here on this page you will view various artist statements and paintings, follow the links below to explore the social practices enveloped within the craft, artistic processes, announcements about upcoming events and release of new projects.
Recent Works
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Astral Travels with Thoth and Nuveyah from the novel Rebirth of the Divine Masculine. Acrylic and Oil on canvas, hand stretched. 40 x 40 in. April 2024
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Deprogramming the Subconscious Acrylic on canvas 38x42 in. March 2024
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Tiamat's Evolution Oil and Acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 in. Februrary 2024
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The Metamorphosis of Nuveyah, photo series and painting and video compilation. 2024
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Watching Angola Vinyl, Acrylic and Oil paint. 4x5ft. Hand sewn. July 2024
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Watching Mali: Lions Gate Portal 4x5ft. Oil paint on raw canvas. August 2024
Art works that break the boundary between the creator, the viewer, and the future, these paintings are eternal. In the sense of them existing outside of time and telling a story of interdimentional travel. These paintings were birthed out of my spiritual practice as a practitioner of the present moment and the invocation of ancestral memory as well as reincarnation.
A huge part of my work comes from the theme of Building culture from within the body, for the body, and the bodies to come. I am approaching liberation through painting in color where notions of post black, post gender, and post human are touched but not completely made the primary experience. I believe that my art is the clearest invocation of the future and the past combined while also touching tropes of the challenges displaced and marginalized people have when it comes to self image and identity. The intention is to cross ancestral erasure with the innocence of being born anew and protecting what is sacred through adornment and raw presentation.
My creations set the stage for my social practice which involves holding art workshops, mediating dialogues exploring sensitivity, accountability, and processing trauma. As well as holding group meditations.
MY PROCESS INVOLVES USING FOUND MATERIALS, DONATED MATERIALS, SUCH AS DOLLS, MANNEQUINS, OLD PAINT, OLD JEWELERY, DONATED FABRIC, ELEMENTS OF NATURE, WIRE, AND YARN,AND MAKING AN ART PIECE OR WEARABLE FASHION OBJECT. UPCYCLING AND MAKING USE OF EVERYTHING IS HOW I SHOW GRATITUDE TO THE UNIVERSE AND THE EARTH. BRINGING VALUE TO WHAT WOULD OTHERWISE BE DISCARDED.
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