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Artist: Kobi Mowatt
Artwork Title: 'Gentrified'
Year: 2020
Medium: Illustration
Materials: Pastel, pen, and color pencil on Canson paper
Dimensions: 19.5” x 25.5”
Artist Bio:
Kobi Mowatt served twenty-nine years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge. While serving time in several prisons and many years in solitary confinement, he started using pastels as a medium to capture his thoughts, experiences, dreams, wishes, and current events in the news. He used his art to express his memories, imaginations and perspectives of current events . His life’s journey and his run through several countries in Europe and Africa, while on a worldwide manhunt , led him to living in a hut in the bush with the wild animals, including baboons and vervet monkeys, and his subsequent arrest shaped his views of animals, people, property, politics, and freedom.
Mowatt has had art in the Richard Shack gallery in Miami Beach at an exhibit called ‘Freedom Fighters’ (July 2009). He also had a painting published for The Pepco Edison Place Gallery, entitled ‘Carnival: A celebration of the African Diaspora.’
Artist: Kobi Mowatt
Artwork Title: 'Gentrified'
Year: 2020
Medium: Illustration
Materials: Pastel, pen, and color pencil on Canson paper
Dimensions: 19.5” x 25.5”
Artist Bio:
Kobi Mowatt served twenty-nine years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge. While serving time in several prisons and many years in solitary confinement, he started using pastels as a medium to capture his thoughts, experiences, dreams, wishes, and current events in the news. He used his art to express his memories, imaginations and perspectives of current events . His life’s journey and his run through several countries in Europe and Africa, while on a worldwide manhunt , led him to living in a hut in the bush with the wild animals, including baboons and vervet monkeys, and his subsequent arrest shaped his views of animals, people, property, politics, and freedom.
Mowatt has had art in the Richard Shack gallery in Miami Beach at an exhibit called ‘Freedom Fighters’ (July 2009). He also had a painting published for The Pepco Edison Place Gallery, entitled ‘Carnival: A celebration of the African Diaspora.’